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Yemeni bodies condemn Saudi-led coalition over use of banned cluster bombs in Sana’a
Jun 11, 2020 07:56Yemeni bodies have censured the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition over deploying cluster bombs against a residential neighborhood in the country’s capital province of Sana’a, seriously injuring members of a family.
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Qatar welcomes ‘real’ initiative meant to end Saudi-led blockade: Envoy
Jun 11, 2020 00:41Qatar’s Ambassador to Turkey Salem bin Mubarak Al Shafi says Doha welcomes any genuine initiative that would end the economic and diplomatic blockade Saudi Arabia and a number of its allies imposed on the gas-rich kingdom in June 2017.
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Canada doubles arms sales to Saudi Arabia despite dire rights record: New figures
Jun 10, 2020 05:19Newly-released figures have revealed that Canada’s sales of military hardware to Saudi Arabia hit a record in 2019, despite a moratorium that was in place on approval of new arms exports to the kingdom due its poor human rights record.
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OPEC agrees to extend output cuts by one month: Iran minister
Jun 07, 2020 01:56Members of The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have agreed to extend a deal on reduction of output provided that non-OPEC producers would comply with their share of the cuts, according to Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh.
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Aid workers warn more Yemeni women will die as UN cuts maternity funding
Jun 05, 2020 02:11Yemeni women are already losing their lives in childbirth and thousands more will be put at serious risk as reproductive health services in the impoverished country are forced to close due to UN funding cuts, doctors and aid workers warn.
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US State Department inspector general fired while probing Saudi arms sales
Jun 04, 2020 04:13An inspector general at the US State Department who was fired last month has confirmed that he was probing the declaration of an “emergency” to justify the controversial sales of 8 billion dollars’ worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia when he was abruptly relieved of his duties.
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Children of ex-Saudi official in exile missing since detention in March: Family
Jun 04, 2020 04:04The two children of a former Saudi intelligence officer, who has been lying low abroad since the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to power, “have disappeared” since their detention in March, their brother says.
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Saudi-led coalition keeps pounding Yemen
Jun 03, 2020 06:36Fighting has once again erupted in Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah as the Ansarullah movement blames the Saudi-led coalition for breaching a ceasefire that was brokered by the United Nations to avert an offensive on the Red Sea port city.
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Factbox: UN aid programs in Yemen at risk of going broke
Jun 03, 2020 02:47The United Nations said ahead of a pledging conference for Yemen on Tuesday that 30 of 41 major aid programs in the war-torn country would close in the next few weeks without funding.
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Saudi Arabia, Israel in secret talks through US mediation over al-Aqsa Mosque: Report
Jun 02, 2020 00:20Saudi Arabia and the Israeli regime have reportedly been conducting clandestine talks over the past few months through American mediation about the inclusion of the kingdom’s representatives in the Islamic Waqf (Endowment) Council – a religious body that oversees the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds.