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Bahrainis rally to support executed Saudi cleric
Jan 03, 2017 08:32People have staged separate demonstrations in Bahrain to voice their continued support for the cause championed by Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, a Saudi Shia cleric who was executed by Saudi Arabian authorities one year ago.
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Scores of Saudi soldiers killed in Yemeni missile attack
Jan 03, 2017 08:28A large number of Saudi soldiers have been killed in a Yemeni missile attack against a military base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Asir.
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Shortage of food, medicine taking heavy toll on Yemeni children: UN
Jan 02, 2017 12:26The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, says a devastating war in Yemen is hindering efforts to save children from acute malnutrition and deaths caused by preventable diseases.
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Saudi warplanes martyr 7 Yemenis in Hajjah, Ma’rib provinces
Jan 01, 2017 13:28At least seven Yemeni civilians have been martyred and nearly a dozen more sustained injuries after Saudi Arabia’s warplanes carried out aerial aggression on Yemen’s two provinces of Hajjah, to the northwest, and Ma’rib, to the center.
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Yemeni forces capture 3 Saudi military bases in Al-Jawf Province
Jan 01, 2017 10:57The Yemeni army and popular forces took control of three more military bases of the Saudi army in al-Jawf Province in the northeastern part of Yemen while their comrades blocked the advances of the kingdom's mercenaries in Shabwah Province.
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Egyptian court backs govt. in giving Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 2016 15:00An Egyptian appeal court has ruled in favor of the government’s contentious decision in giving control of two islands in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, reversing an earlier Administrative Court ruling that concluded the pair should remain under Egypt’s sovereignty.
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Saudi Arabia invites Iran to discuss Hajj: Reports
Dec 30, 2016 09:29Reports say Saudi Arabia has invited Iran to discuss the resumption of Hajj pilgrimages by Iranians, a process that has been halted over a litany of Hajj-time disasters and moves by Riyadh impeding the performance of the Islamic ritual by Iranians.
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Saudi jets intensify airstrikes on Yemen, use cluster bombs
Dec 26, 2016 11:13Saudi fighter jets have intensified their airstrikes against Yemeni provinces, using more internationally-banned arms in their latest raids.
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Yemeni army snipers shoot dead six Saudi soldiers
Dec 25, 2016 04:23Yemeni army snipers have shot dead six Saudi soldiers in the kingdom’s Najran Province in a fresh wave of retaliatory attacks.
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HRW expresses concern about forcibly disappeared Bahraini activist
Dec 24, 2016 14:28Human Rights Watch has condemned the Bahraini regime for detaining activist Sayed Alawi, who has been held incommunicado for five weeks with no criminal charges brought against him and without any access to a lawyer or his family.