News of the day from across the globe, Aug. 13

The United Nations’ human rights office said Friday that deaths among civilians due to Yemen’s conflict have been “steadily mounting,” with more than 200 people killed and more than 500 wounded in four months.

The air strikes this week marked the total collapse of an already fragile truce declared by the United Nations in April, to pave the way for peace talks in Kuwait.

Belgian police launched several raids overnight in parts of Brussels as part of an antiterror probe and took three people into custody.

3 Refugee crisis: A French court rejected a demand Friday to close 72 eating places and shops in the makeshift migrant camp in the northern port city of Calais, but the prefecture said it will continue legal action against what it calls a dangerous underground economy.

A statement by the prefecture said the installations don’t respect sanitation rules, risk fires and are a source of public disorder.

The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has put the Identitarian Movement, a group that rails against “mass immigration” and calls for “an end to the Islamization of Europe,” under observation.

Japanese coast guard ships searched Friday for eight missing Chinese crew members after rescuing six others from a fishing boat that collided with a cargo ship off disputed islands in the East China Sea, government officials said.