Airstrikes kill 100 in Yemen

AT least 100 people have been killed in Saudi-led airstrikes that targeted Yemen's Shi'ite rebels, security officials say.

GROUND fighting and Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Yemen's Shi'ite rebels have killed nearly 100 people as negotiators in neighbouring Oman tried to reach a truce, Yemeni security officials say.

THEY said on Wednesday representatives of the southern separatist movement were meeting with the rebels, known as Huthis, in the Omani capital, Muscat.