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Saudi-led coalition impounds two Yemen-bound oil tankers despite UN clearance
Nov 11, 2022 10:21The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) says the Saudi-led coalition, which has been waging a devastating military campaign against Yemen since 2015, has banned two oil tankers bound for the war-ravaged country from docking at Hudaydah port.
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Freedom Flotilla coalition prepares to break illegal Gaza siege again
Nov 11, 2022 08:51The Freedom Flotilla Coalition is set to challenge the Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, in light of the worsening situation and the increasingly brutal repression in occupied Palestine.
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UN expert voices concern over life of Saudi human rights defender held incommunicado
Nov 11, 2022 03:41The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders has expressed serious concern over the health condition and life of an imprisoned Saudi human rights advocate, who is reportedly being kept incommunicado after his family complained about assaults against him.
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Western sanctions have made debilitating impacts on Syrians’ lives: UN human rights expert
Nov 10, 2022 16:21A senior UN human rights expert has warned about the deleterious impacts of the Western sanctions against Syria, saying the ongoing unilateral coercive measures have caused dire humanitarian consequences for Syrian citizens who are seeking to rebuild their lives.
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Yemeni army troops thwart oil smuggling attempt in energy-rich Shabwah province: Spokesman
Nov 10, 2022 11:17The spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces says the country’s army troops and fighters from allied Popular Committees have managed to stop a foreign oil tanker in the waters of the energy-rich southern Shabwah province, as it was trying to smuggle hundreds of thousands of fuel out of the impoverished West Asian nation.
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Ayatollah Isa Qassim: Parliamentary elections in Bahrain aimed at destroying democracy
Nov 10, 2022 08:54Bahrain’s most prominent religious figure has called for a boycott of the country’s forthcoming parliamentary elections, saying the sham vote is meant to "slaughter democracy" in the Persian Gulf island state, as the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime is insistently exercising its heavy-handed crackdown on dissent.
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Bahrainis continue to stage rallies to condemn, boycott 'sham' elections
Nov 08, 2022 10:36Protesters in Bahrain have staged fresh rallies to condemn and boycott what they call sham parliamentary elections planned for next week.
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Yemen blasts 'malicious' US role in thwarting peace efforts
Nov 08, 2022 09:15The head of Yemen's Supreme Political Council has hit out at US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking for scuttling efforts to extend a UN-brokered truce, describing the truce situation in his country as a time bomb.
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In Tehran, Group of Friends in Defense of UN Charter urges promoting multilateralism, multipolar system
Nov 05, 2022 17:10Members of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations has stressed the importance of preserving, promoting and defending the prevalence and validity of the UN Charter, both in its letter and spirit, calling for improving multilateralism and a multipolar system.
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Iran censures UNSC’s ‘inexcusable silence’ after Shiraz terror attack
Nov 04, 2022 15:51Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has sent a letter to the United Nations, slamming the “inexcusable silence” of the UN Security Council in the face of an October 26 terrorist attack in Shiraz, where over a dozen pilgrims were heinously killed.