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36 nations, including Europeans, rap Saudi Arabia for 1st time at UN rights body
Mar 07, 2019 16:25As many as 36 countries, including all 28 members of the European Union, have taken Saudi Arabia to task for the first time at the United Nations Human Rights Council over Riyadh’s glaring rights violations.
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Western arms exporters complicit in Saudi, Israeli crimes: Iran
Mar 07, 2019 04:13Iran has blasted Saudi Arabia and Zionist regime for killing innocent people in Yemen and Palestine, saying the Western countries selling weapons to Riyadh and Tel Aviv are “complicit” in the atrocities the two regimes have been committing.
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Germany extends ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia
Mar 07, 2019 02:05Germany has extended a ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia imposed over the kingdom’s deadly campaign against Yemen and the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Saudi prosecutors bring jailed moderate Sunni preacher to secret trial: Report
Mar 07, 2019 01:59Saudi public prosecutors have reportedly put an imprisoned political dissident on secret trial as a brutal crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against Muslim preachers and intellectuals widens in the oil-rich kingdom.
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‘King Salman outraged by Bin Salman’s recent moves’
Mar 06, 2019 02:38Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz is said to be outraged by the recent moves made by his son, Crown Prince Mohammed, the Guardian has reported, hinting at growing signs of a potentially destabilizing rift between the king and his heir.
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Yemen: UK’s Hunt distorting terms of Hudaydah ceasefire deal
Mar 05, 2019 11:47Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has censured recent comments by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on the control of Hudaydah, saying the top UK diplomat is distorting the terms of a UN-mediated ceasefire deal reached between the Yemeni warring sides in Sweden over the strategic Red Sea port city.
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Qatar: Arms deal with Russia 'none of Saudi business'
Mar 05, 2019 04:42Qatar has told the Saudi regime not to meddle in its potential arms purchases from Russia, stressing that such a deal is none of Riyadh's business.
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UN experts concerned about Saudi ‘anti-terror’ laws
Mar 05, 2019 03:56The United Nations human rights experts have voiced alarm at Saudi Arabia’s application of its so-called anti-terrorism laws to target activists.
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Khashoggi's body burnt in oven at Saudi consul's home: Report
Mar 04, 2019 07:43Body parts of the slain dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi were burned to ashes in an oven built to generate over 1000°C of heat inside the Saudi consul general’s home in Istanbul, a new report says.
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Normalization of ties with Israel contradicts Islamic teachings: Al-Houthi
Mar 04, 2019 02:55The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement has vehemently condemned attempts by a number of Arab states and Persian Gulf kingdoms to normalize diplomatic relations with the Israeli regime, stressing that such efforts are in blatant contradiction to teachings of Islam.