Yemen is on the verge of full-fledged war, a top U.N. envoy says, but the warring sides spoke this week about how to ease their economic standoff.
What's new: Hans Grundberg, the United Nations envoy for Yemen, told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that the country's decade-long civil war between the Saudi-backed internationally recognized government and the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels is expanding into a regional conflict – and Saudi-Iranian proxy war – and the "escalation in the economic sphere has been translating into public threats to return to full-fledged war."
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