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A cemetery in Sanaa for people killed in the war in Yemen. A Saudi delegation is holding ceasefire negotiations with Houthi leaders in the Yemeni capital in an effort to a end to the eight-year conflict between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA Oman-brokered talks between rebel Houthi leaders and Saudi officials have begun in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, with the goal of reaching an agreement to end their eight-year war before the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. UN envoy Hans Grundberg, who has negotiated an exchange of 887 prisoners, said this effort is “the...