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Saudi Arabia facing grilling by world nations at UN
Nov 05, 2018 05:54Saudi Arabia faces tough grilling at the United Nations Office at Geneva. The human rights session is expected to pose grave questions to Riyadh over a deadly Saudi-led war on Yemen as well as the recent killing of a dissident by Saudi agents in Turkey.
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Khashoggi’s sons plead for father’s body
Nov 05, 2018 05:31The sons of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed last month after entering the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, plead to be able to collect their father’s body.
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Child dies among 3 others in Saudi raids on Yemen
Nov 05, 2018 05:22Saudi Arabian warplanes strike al-Hudaydah and Sa’ada Provinces in western Yemen, martyring three people, including a child.
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Saudi prince al-Waleed bin Talal defends MBS after his brother’s release
Nov 05, 2018 05:04Saudi billionaire businessman al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has come out in defense of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the wake of his brother’s release from jail amid an international outrage over the last month assassination of a dissident journalist in Turkey.
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US universities reconsidering ties with Saudi Arabia
Nov 04, 2018 08:15American colleges and universities are reconsidering ties with Saudi Arabia despite having received over $350 million from the kingdom over the past 10 years, according to a report.
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Yemeni forces foils Saudi-led push to seize port before talks
Nov 04, 2018 08:08Yemen’s armed forces have decisively countered an all-out Saudi offensive, which was in the works for days to seize the country’s strategic Red Sea port.
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Yemeni forces fire high-precision Badr P-1 ballistic missile at base run by Saudi mercenaries: Report
Nov 04, 2018 05:13Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-designed smart missile at a position of Saudi-backed militiamen loyal to former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the country’s strategic western province of Hudaydah.
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US demand for Yemen ceasefire, launch of political talks ‘total farce’: Ansarullah
Nov 03, 2018 13:56The spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has described a demand by US President Donald Trump’s administration for a ceasefire and the launch of UN-led political talks to end the ongoing war in Yemen as “nothing but travesty.”
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UN chief appeals for end to Saudi-led war on Yemen
Nov 03, 2018 03:36United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says Yemen is teetering “on a precipice”, appealing to the international community to put an end to the Saudi war on the impoverished nation, more than three-and-a-half years after the regime and a number of its allies invaded the peninsular country.
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Erdogan: Order to kill Khashoggi came from ‘highest levels’ of Saudi gov't
Nov 03, 2018 03:12Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the assassination of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul had been ordered at the "highest levels" of the Saudi government, but he does “not believe for a second” that King Salman issued the order.