New UN-Backed Yemen Peace Talks Begin in Sweden

Yemen's warring factions are in Sweden to participate in a new round of peace talks aimed at ending the four-year-old war that has pushed the small Arabian Peninsula country on the brink of famine. The U.N.-brokered talks, which began Thursday in the city of Rimbo, are the first negotiations between the Saudi-backed government and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in two years.  These new talks are being held amid growing international outrage over the dire humanitarian crisis,...

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