Yemen’s Houthi rebels said on Wednesday they are considering renewing a United Nations-brokered truce with the government which expires in two weeks. The Houthis “Supreme Political Council will consider the request for an extension of the truce, which ends on June 2,” the rebels’ Saba news agency said. The report comes a day after the UN envoy, Hans Grundberg, said he was continuing to “engage the parties to overcome outstanding challenges and to ensure the extension of the truce”. #Yemen’s UN envoy has said that civilian casualties over the past six weeks have “dropped considerably” and said …