Yemen’s flashpoint city of Hodeidah was calm yesterday as a ceasefire took effect and a team including members of the warring sides prepared to monitor the truce agreed at talks in Sweden.

Lebanon appeared to be edging towards clinching a deal to form a new national unity government after more than seven months of wrangling over cabinet posts, as the finance minister was quoted as saying there could be a new administration within days.

Yemen's flashpoint city of Hodeidah was calm on Tuesday following heavy clashes that erupted after the UN-brokered ceasefire started at midnight, pro-government sources and residents said.

A ceasefire in Yemen’s battleground port city of Hodeidah and its surroundings will start today, officials say, after renewed fighting threatened the hard-won accord struck in Sweden.

Israeli forces destroyed the home of a Palestinian accused of killing two Israelis, in an army raid that triggered clashes overnight yesterday, an AFP journalist said.

The UN’s envoy to Yemen called yesterday for pro-government forces and rebels to respect a ceasefire in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, after repeated clashes between the two sides threatened to unravel a hard-won accord hammered out in Sweden last week.

A car bomb killed at least nine people including five civilians near a pro-Turkey rebel post in the northern Syrian city of Afrin yesterday, a British-based war monitor said.

The UN’s envoy to Yemen called yesterday for pro-government forces and rebels to respect a ceasefire in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, ...

A car bomb killed at least nine people including five civilians near a pro-Turkey rebel post in the northern Syrian city of Afrin yesterday, a British-based war monitor said.

A car bomb killed at least eight people including four civilians near a pro-Turkey rebel post in the northern Syrian city of Afrin on Sunday, a British-based war monitor said.

Air strikes and fierce clashes shook the outskirts of Yemen's rebel-held port city of Hodeidah overnight, pro-government sources and residents said Sunday, despite a UN-brokered ceasefire.

Israeli troops demolished the home of a Palestinian accused of the May killing of a soldier yesterday, completing a night-long incursion into the Palestinian-controlled city of Ramallah.