At least 43 people have been killed in shelling by Yemeni Houthi rebels in the southern city of Aden, officials say.

A new UN-brokered humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen is broken shortly after coming into force.

The Islamic State group claims an attack on two Houthi rebel leaders in Sanaa on Monday night that medics said had killed at least 28 people, including eight women.

Saudi-led air strikes kill at least 80 people near Yemen's border with Saudi Arabia and in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday.

Rebels in Yemen say they will respond "positively" to a ceasefire offer by the Saudi-led coalition that has been carrying out air strikes against them.

A total of 337 stranded Bangladeshis have headed for home after evacuation from the war-torn country of Yemen.

International Committee of the Red Cross is due to make two emergency aid flights into Yemen's capital, Sanaa.

Three Bangladeshi expatriates who were stranded in war-torn Yemen reach Djibouti from Aden yesterday by an Indian ship, a foreign ministry official says.

Fighting in the Yemeni city of Aden has intensified as Houthi rebels try to seize control of the city despite airstrikes on Houthi forces by a Saudi-led coalition.