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Saudi threatens to cut UN funding over blacklisting: Sources
Jun 08, 2016 11:52Saudi Arabia and its allies have threatened to cut off funding to UN programs if United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon doesn't drop the kingdom from a blacklist of violators of children rights, diplomatic sources say.
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UN draws fire for removing Saudis from child rights violators blacklist
Jun 08, 2016 03:04The United Nations is under fire from various human rights groups for deciding to remove Saudi Arabia from a blacklist of child rights violators despite being blamed for the massacre of hundreds of Yemeni children.
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UK shamefully evading responsibility for Yemen deaths: Amnesty
Jun 07, 2016 07:22Amnesty International has dismissed as “utterly shameful” the United Kingdom’s claims that no British-made cluster bombs have been used by Saudis against civilians in Yemen.
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Soldiers in Saudi war don’t have to fast: Saudi mufti
Jun 07, 2016 07:18For a second year in a row, Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti has exempted troops participating in the war on Yemen from observing the religious obligation of fasting during Ramadan.
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UN removes Saudi Arabia from child rights violators’ blacklist
Jun 07, 2016 07:09The UN has submitted to a Saudi demand to remove the kingdom from a blacklist of child rights violators, less than a week after it blamed Riyadh for the killing of hundreds of Yemeni children.
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Saudi Arabia says ‘still looking into’ 2015 Hajj tragedy
Jun 07, 2016 05:01Saudi Arabia says it is still reviewing the deaths of thousands of people nine months after a deadly crush during Hajj near the holy city of Mecca.
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Saudi side insincere in Yemen peace talks: Ansarullah leader
Jun 07, 2016 04:35Leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement Abdel Malek al-Houthi has criticized the Saudi-backed delegates in the ongoing UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait, saying they are “insincere.”
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Saudi using Takfiris in 'broad way' for political aims: Iran
Jun 06, 2016 09:41Iran has hit out at Saudi Arabia, saying the kingdom is broadly using Takfiri terrorist groups to advance its political agenda in the region.
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Saudi cabinet reshuffle evidence to chaos in monarchy: Poll
Jun 06, 2016 02:27A recent set of changes made by King Salman in the structure of the Saudi government highlights chaos within the ruling royal family, a Press TV poll finds.
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Saudi Arabia, mother of Takfiri ideology: Iraqi commander
Jun 05, 2016 08:54A commander of the volunteer forces fighting alongside the Iraqi military against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in Iraq says the ideology adopted by the Takfiri terrorists originates in Saudi Arabia.