Kuwait City / AFP The UN envoy has met delegates of Yemen’s warring parties separately in a bid to restart peace negotiations after a protest walkout by the government, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The government delegation quit on Sunday in protest at the rebels’ seizure of one of the few loyalist army bases in the northern mountains in …

  TEHRAN / AP Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has rallied for more freedom of speech in his country, saying government critics should not be imprisoned. Rouhani says that “critics should not be detained, critics should not be sent to jail.” He spoke at the annual Tehran International Book Fair on Tuesday. The remarks, which underscored Rouhani’s 2013 election promises of …

  Yangon / AP A major fire on Tuesday damaged or destroyed the homes of nearly 450 Rohingya Muslim families living in a camp for people displaced by 2012 communal fighting in western Myanmar. The charred remains of wooden shelters and twisted metal roofs were visible through a thick haze of smoke after the fire broke out in the early …