22-10-2016 23:04 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Yemen truce expires after day of heavy fighting

By Mohammed Ghobari and Katie Paul SANAA/NAJRAN, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A supposed ceasefire in the Yemen conflict expired a minute before midnight on Saturday after a day of heavy fighting between Saudi-backed forces and the Iran-allied Houthi movement. Each side accused the other of repeatedly violating the three-day truce and U.N. attempts to extend it before it lapsed appeared to have failed. Ground fighting raged largely unabated despite the ceasefire, but air attacks on the capital, Sana
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