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Sudan’s Bashir declines Saudi invitation to participate in summit with Trump
May 19, 2017 09:56Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, subject to an international arrest warrant for suspected genocide, has declined an invitation by Saudi Arabia to participate in a summit with US President Donald Trump and other leaders in Riyadh.
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Saudi Arabia seeks to become major global arms supplier
May 19, 2017 01:32Saudi Arabia says it is set to create a new military industries firm as part of its plan to become a major global arms supplier and gradually wean itself off oil revenues.
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Saudi regime offensive on Shia Muslim town enters 2nd week
May 18, 2017 08:57Saudi regime forces have launched a fresh wave of shelling attacks against a besieged town in Saudi Arabia’s Shia Muslim-populated Eastern Province, as a fierce crackdown on protesters there enters its second week.
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Saudi forces assassinate young Shia man in troubled Qatif
May 18, 2017 02:01Saudi regime forces have reportedly shot and martyred a young man in the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province as deadly fighting escalates there.
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Cholera death toll rises to 209 in Yemen: UNICEF
May 17, 2017 12:19The United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) says some 209 people have been killed in recent weeks in a cholera epidemic that threatens the lives of many people in Yemen, which has been under Saudi airstrikes for more than two years.
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3 women martyred in Saudi rocket attack on northwestern Yemen
May 17, 2017 02:51Three women have been martyred when Saudi military forces launched a rocket attack against a residential area in Yemen’s northwestern and mountainous Province of Sa’ada as the Ale Saud regime goes ahead with its atrocious onslaught against its impoverished southern neighbor.
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Saudi police officer killed in restive Eastern Province
May 16, 2017 12:11Saudi Arabia’s Interior Minister says a police officer has lost his life in the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province as deadly fighting escalates there.
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Saudi Shia-Muslim town under 'siege' for sixth day
May 15, 2017 11:56A town has entered the sixth day under "siege" from the Aal-e Saud’s security services, with several people reportedly killed in clashes between police and protesters.
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Iran says not after tensions with Saudi Arabia
May 15, 2017 11:55Iran says it does not seek tensions with Saudi Arabia, even though it characterizes Riyadh's involvement in conflicts in Yemen, Syria, Iraq and elsewhere a "strategic mistake".
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Riyadh, Moscow agree to extend oil output cuts
May 15, 2017 10:37Russia and Saudi Arabia say they have agreed to extend a landmark agreement to cut their oil output until March 2018 – an announcement which is expected to further help stabilize prices in international markets.