was supposed to take effect Tuesday, Reuters reported.

Yemen plunged into civil war when the Houthis, a Shiite rebel group, seized the capital of Sanaa in September 2014, forcing the Sunni-led government into exile. Saudi Arabia and its allies launched an air campaign in late March targeting the Houthis after President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his administration fled to Riyadh. The United States supports the coalition, which includes Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Sudan, to push back the Houthis, who control large swathes in the country’s north.

The conflict has essentially pitted regional enemies Saudi Arabia and Iran against each other in a battle for Middle East supremacy while igniting Sunni-Shiite tensions. The Houthis are backed by Iran’s Shiite government, and Saudi Arabia’s Sunni government supports Hadi, who returned toThe country continues to reel under severe heat wave conditions, with the weather department saying there will be no respite for the next two days.

Heat wave conditions persisted in Delhi on Sunday, with the mercury soaring up to 46.2 degrees Celsius. It is set to again breach the 45-degree mark on Monday.

"Mainly clear sky. Heat wave conditions likely at many places with severe heat wave at isolated pockets," the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said.

"Heatwave conditions were observed in many places in isolated pockets over Delhi, south Uttar Pradesh, East Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, and Saurashtra," the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday as quoted by news agency ANI.

A heat wave is usually declared when the maximum temperature remains above 45 degrees Celsius for two consecutive days.

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