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Top senator proposes 'freeze' on US-Saudi cooperation over Riyadh's oil policy at OPEC
Oct 11, 2022 05:20The Democratic chairman of the United States' Senate Foreign Relations Committee has urged the country to freeze its cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including most arms sales, after OPEC+ in which Riyadh is a top producer announced it would cut oil production.
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Normalization deals enormously benefited Israel’s arm industry: Report
Oct 10, 2022 08:54A report says the Israeli arms industry has disproportionately benefited from the warming of ties between Israel and some Arab countries, as deals worth more than $3 billion have been signed between the regime and three countries that normalized their ties with it in the past two years.
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Senator Murphy: Decades-long US-Saudi partnership is ‘broken’
Oct 10, 2022 03:04Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy called for a reassessment of the US military alliance with Saudi Arabia after the kingdom and its oil-exporting allies agreed to a production cut, ahead of the November midterm elections which Democrats are already set to lose to the Republicans.
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Al-Houthi demands end to Saudi-led war, calls on Yemenis to continue resistance
Oct 08, 2022 14:14The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has demanded an end to the Saudi-led war on his country, calling on the Yemeni nation to continue to resist the aggression, which has been supported by the United States and the Israeli regime.
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Saudi Arabia sentences tribesmen to death for resisting eviction
Oct 08, 2022 10:47A Saudi court has sentenced three members of the Howeitat, a tribe forcibly ejected to make way for the $500-billion Neom project, to death for resisting displacement.
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Sanders calls for US troop withdrawal from Saudi Arabia, end of selling weapons
Oct 08, 2022 03:13Independent US Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has called for the withdrawal of American troops from Saudi Arabia and an end to military aid to the conservative kingdom for lowering oil production.
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US lawmaker rebukes S Arabia as Congress targets Riyadh over oil cut
Oct 08, 2022 02:24US Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer has rebuked Saudi Arabia as Congress prepares to punish Riyadh for lowering oil production.
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Probe: Mahsa Amini’s death caused by illness, not alleged blows
Oct 07, 2022 11:42Iran’s Legal Medicine Organization has released the results of its investigation into the case of Mahsa Amini, saying that her controversial death was caused by an illness rather than alleged blows to the head or other vital body organs.
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Yemeni retaliatory strikes could target areas beyond Saudi Arabia, UAE: Defense Minister
Oct 07, 2022 07:08The Yemeni defense minister says the country’s future retaliatory strikes would target areas beyond Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), warning the Saudi-led coalition against any new act of aggression against the war-wracked country after a truce was violated.
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US lawmakers pushing to cut military support for Saudi Arabia in response to OPEC+ oil cuts
Oct 07, 2022 07:05A group of Democratic lawmakers has introduced a bill to end Washington’s military support for Saudi Arabia and the UAE as the Biden Administration is mulling a response to the recent OPEC+ decision to cut output by two millions barrels a day.