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US urges Yemen's Houthis to extend truce amid fears of renewed fighting

The United States is seeking the renewal of a nationwide truce that brought a much-needed pause in violence to Yemen before it expired on Sunday.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a meeting with Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak at the State Department, Washington, May 17, 2022.

The Biden administration is urging the Houthis to negotiate in good faith after Yemen's warring parties failed to renew a truce that for the past six months has brought relative calm to the embattled country. 

“The United States expresses its deep concern that the UN-mediated truce in Yemen expired on October 2 without the parties reaching an agreement to extend it,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement Monday evening. 

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