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I escaped Khashoggi-style killing: Saudi dissident
Jan 30, 2019 05:20A Saudi political dissident says he avoided a destiny similar to that of renowned journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in the Arab kingdom’s consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul three and a half months ago.
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Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement sends ill Saudi soldier back home, draws UN praise
Jan 30, 2019 05:01Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement has set free an ailing Saudi prisoner on humanitarian grounds, in a move that could boost ongoing UN-led efforts to end the bloody Saudi-led war against the country and broker peace there.
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Ansarullah blasts Saudi regime's plundering of Yemeni oil resources
Jan 30, 2019 03:50Yemen has denounced exploitation of the country’s oil resources by the Riyadh regime in the Provinces of Hadhramaut and Mahrah, where troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are present.
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Yemen’s rival parties must pull forces out of Hudaydah: UN envoy
Jan 29, 2019 11:32The United Nations’ special envoy for Yemen has called on the country’s warring sides to pull their forces out of the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah as soon as possible under a recent UN-brokered ceasefire.
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184 Saudi-led violations despite truce: UN envoy
Jan 28, 2019 08:30Yemen has accused Saudi Arabia and its allies of repeatedly violating a ceasefire in the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, reached in the Swedish capital Stockholm last month.
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UN investigator in Khashoggi case demands access to Saudi consulate in Istanbul, not allowed yet
Jan 27, 2019 09:18A United Nations expert who has been assigned to investigate the state-sponsored assassination of Saudi Arabian dissident Jamal Khashoggi says she has requested access to Riyadh’s consulate in Istanbul, where the critic was brutally killed, but has not heard from Riyadh yet.
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Yemeni ballistic missiles hit Jizan, Najran in Saudi Arabia
Jan 26, 2019 15:34Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have hit gatherings of mercenaries working for the regime in Riyadh in the kingdom’s regions of Jizan and Najran with domestically-manufactured missiles in retaliation for the Saudi campaign against the impoverished nation, a report says.
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Saudi Arabia blacklisted for lax control on terror financing
Jan 26, 2019 08:26Saudi Arabia has reportedly been included in an EU draft list of countries that pose a threat to the bloc due to their alleged lax control on money laundering and terrorism financing.
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Rights groups demand access to political prisoners in Saudi Arabia
Jan 26, 2019 03:28Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have demanded that Saudi Arabia allow independent monitors access to political prisoners in the country, amid new reports of torture.
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Saudi Arabia building its first ballistic missile factory: Report
Jan 25, 2019 10:36Saudi Arabia, already known as the world’s top importer of foreign-made ballistic missiles, has started building its first missile production factory near the central town of Al-Watah, The Washington Post has quoted experts as saying.