UN Tries to Rally Support for Peace Talks in Yemen

Bombs from a Saudi-led air offensive continued to fall across Yemen on Thursday, as the United Nations' envoy to the country scrambled to get its warring, marginalized and exiled factions around a negotiating table in Geneva later this month. Renewed optimism about peace talks emerged this week after representatives for exiled President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi and the Houthi militia indicated they might participate. This followed months of repeated failures by the United Nations to...

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