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The UN envoy for Yemen says that upcoming "consultations" between the warring parties in Geneva offer a "flickering signal of hope" after years of conflict. SOUNDBITE
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi holds meeting with top foreign policy officials from the Palestinian Authority and four Muslim-majority countries, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas claims thousands of civilian lives. IMAGES
Nayef al-Sudairi, the Saudi envoy to Jordan, and recently named ambassador for the Palestinian territories and consul general for Jerusalem, meets with Palestinian top diplomat Riyad al-Maliki on a rare visit to the occupied West Bank. The delegation was Saudi Arabia's first in three decades to the West Bank, which Israel has occupied along with other territories since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. IMAGES
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan arrives at Damascus airport, on the first visit to Syria's capital by a Saudi official since the start of the country's civil war in 2011. IMAGES
Plane carrying released Huthi prisoners arrives at Sanaa International Airport, following prisoner swap between the Yemeni rebels and the internationally recognised-government. IMAGES