Yemen's warring parties 'agree' to 72-hour ceasefire

Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has agreed to a 72-hour truce with the possibility of it being extended. Yemen foreign minister Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi announced the ceasefire on social media. The government's announcement follows international alarm over the deaths of 140 people in a Saudi airstrike. Later on Monday, UN special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed,

announced that the Houthis had also agreed to abide by the deal. The latest ceasefire is expected to start on Thursday. The US, Britain and the UN peace envoy to Yemen have all urged warring parties in the country's civil war to declare an immediate ceasefire.