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Saudi Arabia jails journalist over ‘insulting’ tweets
Mar 26, 2016 01:09Authorities in Saudi Arabia have sentenced a journalist to five years in prison over allegations that he insulted the Saudi rulers in messages posted on Twitter.
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15 people killed in another round of Saudi airstrikes across Yemen
Mar 25, 2016 09:49At least 15 people were killed Friday in another round of airstrikes carried out by Saudi warplanes across Yemen, local media say.
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Saudi regime detains top Shia Muslim scholar in Eastern Province
Mar 22, 2016 12:57Saudi regime's security forces have arrested a prominent Shia cleric over his anti-regime comments as Riyadh continues its crackdown on the minority sect.
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Iran supports talks to end war in Yemen: Deputy FM
Mar 21, 2016 10:53Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Monday in a telephone conversation with the United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen said the Islamic Republic throws its weight behind political approaches and dialogue among Yemeni political factions in a bid to end the war in the violence-wracked country.
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Saudi airstrikes kill 2 children, 1 woman in Yemen
Mar 17, 2016 09:21Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes have targeted a number of areas across Yemen including the capital, Sana’a, killing at least two children and one woman.
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Moody’s cuts Saudi banking system outlook to negative
Mar 17, 2016 03:48Moody’s rating agency has downgraded Saudi Arabia's banking system from "stable" to "negative" as low oil prices continue to batter the kingdom's economy.
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UN demands inquiry into Saudi bombing of Yemeni market
Mar 17, 2016 03:32United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for an investigation into recent Saudi aerial attacks on a crowded marketplace in Yemen’s northwestern Province of Hajjah, which claimed more than 100 lives.
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Amnesty slams Saudi Arabia’s worsening human rights record
Mar 16, 2016 03:16Amnesty International has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its “gross human rights violations.”
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Saudi Arabia to fire 35,000 Yemenis from mobile sector jobs
Mar 15, 2016 09:14Saudi Arabia will be firing some 35,000 Yemenis working in the country’s mobile phone sector, in a “Saudization” plan that is apparently aimed at easing the country’s economic difficulties caused in large part by a deadly war on Yemen.
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Rights groups to Saudis: Don’t execute Shia youths
Mar 13, 2016 04:10Rights groups have called on the Saudi regime to stop possible executions of three Shia Muslim youths after judges in the monarchy reportedly confirmed death sentences against four men accused of committing “acts of terrorism.”