CAIRO: Saudi-led air strikes pounded the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday and the new United Nations envoy to the country arrived there hours before a five-day ceasefire after over six weeks of war was set to begin.
ADEN: Houthi forces fought battles street by street with local militia in the old center of Aden on Wednesday, as the first boatloads of emergency medical aid arrived to the south Yemeni port city which aid workers say faces a humanitarian catastrophe.
MACAU: President Xi Jinping visited a drizzly Macau on Friday for the 15th anniversary of the gambling hub's return to Chinese rule, with onlookers barred from using umbrellas -- the emblem of democracy protests in nearby Hong Kong.
ISLAMABAD: A meeting between the PML-N leader Khwaja Saad Rafique and Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Dr. Tahirul Qadri took place in a container in Islamabad long march venue on Sunday noon, ARY News reported.