Saudi Arabia 'categorically' denies WSJ report claiming Houthis demanded $51bn to halt hostilities

Saudi Arabia has denied a report by the US-based Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ) that Yemen’s Houthis had demanded $51 billion from kingdom in return for a “negotiated halt” to the ongoing hostilities between the two sides. A report by the Journal claimed on Thursday that the kingdom had approached the Houthis “to see what it would take to arrive at a negotiated halt to the hostilities”, and the group demanded $51bn in return. The report, citing unnamed sources, further claimed that the Houthis would want to be “officially recognised … as the rulers of Yemen”. But Saudi Deputy Minister for Public…