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Saudi activists decry state for forcing nation under poverty line
May 13, 2020 03:46Saudi activists share footage of poverty-stricken and garbage-rummaging Saudi citizens, decrying Riyadh for impoverishing the country and introducing even harsher economic measures despite the already pressing circumstances.
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War thrust back Yemen development 21 years: UNDP
May 12, 2020 07:48The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) says a Saudi-led military campaign underway against Yemen has pushed back the country’s development more than two decades, and is now complicating the war-torn nation’s efforts to rein in the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
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Saudi Arabia to impose austerity measures amid coronavirus crisis, oil collapse
May 11, 2020 08:06Saudi Arabia is set to suspend a cost-of-living allowance for state employees and increase value added tax (VAT), amid a slump in oil prices and the coronavirus crisis.
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Iran rejects reports that guarantor states deciding Syria’s future
May 11, 2020 06:57Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman rejected as “baseless” certain media reports claiming that the Astana Process guarantor states are deciding the future of the Syrian government.
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Coronavirus, other diseases grip Yemen amid five-year Saudi imposed war
May 11, 2020 04:54The coronavirus has infected more people in Yemen, which has also been gripped by other diseases, as five years of Saudi imposed war on Yemen has shattered the country’s health system and infrastructure.
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Yemen urges UN to pressure Saudi-led coalition over offloading stranded oil tanker
May 11, 2020 01:27The Yemeni minister of oil and minerals has called upon the United Nations to pressure the Saudi-led coalition involved in a campaign against his country into allowing the offloading of crude oil from a tanker afloat off the coast of Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah.
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Protracted Saudi war draws Turkey to Yemen after Libya
May 10, 2020 04:41Turkey has reportedly been increasing its presence in Yemen’s southern coastal areas in a bid to expand its foothold in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which is worrying Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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Iranian diplomat, Ansarullah spokesman discuss Yemen crisis
May 10, 2020 04:07Ali Asghar Khaji, a senior Assistant to Iran’s Foreign Minister in Special Political Affairs, discussed the situation in Yemen with Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the Spokesperson for Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement and the chief negotiator of the National Salvation Government.
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HRW: Saudi prince held incommunicado after enforced disappearance
May 09, 2020 13:21Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Saudi authorities detained Prince Faisal bin Abdullah Al Saud more than a month ago and have since kept him incommunicado.
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Ansarullah slams Saudi Arabia, UAE for using television programs to promote Israel
May 08, 2020 07:22The leader of Yemen’s popular Ansarullah movement has slammed Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for using certain television programs to promote relations with the illegal Zionist entity and demean the Palestinian struggle against occupation.