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Talks opening in Sweden between Yemen's government and rebels, who have been locked in a devastating war for nearly four years, are a "critical opportunity", says special envoy Martin Griffiths. SOUNDBITE
Cars carrying members of a Yemeni rebel delegation and the team of UN peace envoy Martin Griffiths drive out of the VIP area of Stockholm’s Arlanda airport. The Yemeni rebel delegation accompanied by Griffiths arrived in Sweden late Tuesday for high-stakes talks with the government aimed at ending the devastating war. IMAGES
Saudi non-resident ambassador to the Palestinian territories, Nayef al-Sudairi arrives for a meeting in Ramallah after Saudi Arabia, which has engaged in US-brokered talks with Israel to potentially normalise relations, sent a delegation to the occupied West Bank for the first time in three decades. IMAGES
Images show an aircraft flying under the banner of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) departing from Sanaa International Airport to Aden International Airport with released prisoners, previously held by Yemen's Huthi rebels, aboard. IMAGES
A plane transporting released Huthi prisoners takes off from Aden airport towards Sanaa as the three-day exchange of prisoners between cities in Yemen and its oil-rich neighbour, Saudi Arabia begins. Nearly 900 prisoners from Yemen's civil war will be exchanged in the biggest prisoner swap since 2020, after a delegation from Saudi Arabia, which launched a military intervention in 2015, held talks with Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels this week in an attempt to end hostilities. IMAGES
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