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Two Saudi vessels seriously damaged in attack near UAE, minister says
May 13, 2019 01:38Saudi Arabia’s energy minister says two Saudi oil tankers were targeted in a "sabotage attack” on Sunday off the coast of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates.
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Yemen's Ansarullah urges UN to press ex-govt. to withdraw forces from key ports
May 12, 2019 02:54Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement has urged the United Nations and its Security Council to pressure Yemen’s Saudi-backed former government to pull out its forces from the city of Hudaydah and two other Red Sea ports after Ansarullah fighters unilaterally began withdrawing from two of the ports according to a UN-brokered agreement.
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Several Saudi dissidents martyred as regime forces storm Qatif
May 12, 2019 02:38Several political dissidents have been killed in Saudi Arabia when regime forces raided a village in the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals continues unabated in the country.
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Fresh Saudi airstrikes claim lives of seven Yemenis
May 12, 2019 02:14At least seven people, including women and children, have been martyred after Saudi-led warplanes carried out airstrikes against an area in Yemen’s Southwestern Province of Dhale.
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215 Iranian Sunni clerics condemn beheading of Saudi nationals in letter to UN Chief
May 11, 2019 09:02Over 200 Iranian Sunni clerics in a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres deplored the mass execution of tens of Saudi citizens by Riyadh, calling for independent investigations into the crime to prevent its repetition.
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Yemen’s Ansarullah begins unilateral withdrawal from Hudaydah ports
May 11, 2019 08:05Yemen's Ansarullah movement and the revolutionary forces have started unilateral withdrawal from Saleef and Ras Isa ports in Hudaydah Province under a United Nations-sponsored peace deal, a news agency says.
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Libya’s GNA urges Trump to stop foreign support for Haftar
May 11, 2019 07:12Libya's internationally-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) has called on US President Donald Trump to stop foreign support for "aspiring military dictator" Khalifa Haftar as his forces continue their all-out offensive to take over the capital Tripoli.
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Yemen: Ansarullah confirms pullout from three ports under truce
May 11, 2019 05:12The Ansarullah movement has confirmed that its fighters will withdraw from Yemen's three key ports, complaining about the Saudis' refusal to implement a UN-brokered ceasefire.
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UN says Yemen’s Houthis agreed to begin Hudaydah withdrawal
May 11, 2019 01:37The United Nations says Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has agreed to unilaterally pull out its forces from three key ports over the next four days, a necessary step for the implementation of a ceasefire deal the warring sides reached in Sweden in December.
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UN: Crucial grain silos in Yemen’s Hudaydah come under fire
May 10, 2019 23:59The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says grain silos just outside Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah, a lifeline for millions of Yemenis, have come under gunfire.