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Security Council due to vote on Yemen observer mission
Jan 16, 2019 05:44The UN Security Council (UNSC) is scheduled to vote on a six-month observer mission tasked with monitoring a ceasefire in Yemen’s Hudaydah and oversee a pullback of rival forces from the lifeline port city.
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Jordan agrees to host Yemen talks about prisoner exchange
Jan 16, 2019 04:38Jordan has announced that it will host a round of UN-brokered negotiations between delegates from Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement and representatives loyal to former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to discuss a prisoner swap deal between the two warring sides.
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In Canada, Saudi girl says couldn't ‘study, work, live normally’ at home
Jan 16, 2019 04:15A Saudi girl who recently fled her country and received asylum from Canada says she could not study, work, and “live a normal life” in hidebound Saudi Arabia.
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Yemeni forces strike military base in southwestern Saudi Arabia: Video
Jan 16, 2019 03:37Yemeni army soldiers, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have launched an attack against a military base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan region in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s atrocious military campaign against their impoverished homeland.
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Yemen’s Ansarullah dismiss Pompeo’s accusations of Hudaydah truce breach
Jan 15, 2019 10:03A senior Yemeni official has hit back at US Secretary of State Mike Pomepo over his recent allegations that Ansarullah fighters are violating the UN-brokered ceasefire in the Hudaydah port city, criticizing Washington for keeping up its support for the Saudi-led war on the impoverished nation.
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Scores of Saudi troopers, mercenaries slain, injured by Yemeni army
Jan 15, 2019 03:47Scores of Saudi soldiers and Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi have lost their lives when Yemeni army soldiers and fighters from allied Popular Committees launched separate offensives against their positions in the kingdom’s border regions.
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Several Saudi troops killed in Yemeni forces’ retaliatory attack on Jizan
Jan 14, 2019 04:20Yemeni forces have carried out a retaliatory drone attack against Saudi forces, killing a number of them in the Kingdom’s Jizan region.
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PGCC is ineffectual, needs new principles of management: Qatar
Jan 14, 2019 03:35Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Ale Thani says the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) has no executive power left, calling for change to the structure of the six-member regional intergovernmental political and economic union.
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Yemen: Top intel official injured in Ansarullah drone attack dies
Jan 13, 2019 09:18A high-ranking intelligence official injured in a Ansarullah drone attack on Yemen's largest air base held by Saudi mercenaries has died of his wounds.
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Arabs need years to normalize ties, says former Qatari PM
Jan 13, 2019 03:56The former Qatari prime minister says a Saudi-engineered blockade on his country has badly undermined trust between Arab countries of the Persian Gulf region, saying a normalization of relations would take years.