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UN's FAO: Five million Yemenis will likely be 'living just one step away from famine' next year
Dec 14, 2020 12:12The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned that 5 million people in war-ravaged Yemen “will likely be living just one step away from famine" in the upcoming year.
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Explosion hits tanker off Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah
Dec 14, 2020 03:25A shipping firm says an explosion has hit a fuel tanker off Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah, a key Red Sea port and distribution center for oil giant Saudi Aramco.
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Iran's initiative for ending Yemen war still on table: FM’s assistant
Dec 13, 2020 14:29Iran has reiterated its previous call for finding a political solution to the five-year war Saudi Arabia has waged on Yemen, with the Iranian foreign minister’s senior assistant on special political affairs saying that the country's Yemen initiative is still on the table.
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Yemen condemns US sanctions on five Ansarullah officials as "American terrorism"
Dec 11, 2020 04:18Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has condemned US sanctions on five Yemeni citizens and members of the popular movement as “an act of American terrorism” against the war-wracked Arab country.
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German government extends ban on exporting arms to Saudi Arabia
Dec 11, 2020 02:58Germany has decided to extend until the end of next year an embargo on exporting weapons to Saudi Arabia, which was adopted due to the Saudi-led war against Yemen and the 2018 killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Iran announces sanctions against US envoy to Yemen, cites pivotal role in humanitarian catastrophe
Dec 10, 2020 06:15The Iranian Foreign Ministry has announced sanctions against US Ambassador to Yemen Christopher Henzel for his pivotal role in the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in the conflict-plagued, impoverished Arab country.
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US massacring Yemeni people to keep own arms manufacturers running, advance Israeli plots: Houthi
Dec 09, 2020 08:45A member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council says the United States is killing Yemeni civilians en masse in order to keep production at its major arms manufacturing corporations running, lower its rate of unemployment, pay off its debts and advance the Israeli regime’s plots in the region.
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Zarif advises neighbors to exclude US, E3 regional talks
Dec 08, 2020 09:44Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on the neighboring countries to the Islamic Republic to hold talks about regional developments without foreign interference.
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Yemeni army launches drone attack against Saudi positions
Dec 08, 2020 04:51The Yemeni army, backed by popular committees, has launched a fresh drone attack against the positions of the Saudi-led coalition, whose war on Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has martyred thousands of civilians since 2015.
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Saudi seeks to shut down Sana’a intl. airport through new airstrikes: Yemeni airport director
Dec 07, 2020 02:38The new wave of airstrikes by the so-called Saudi-led coalition on the Sana’a International Airport serves to keep the facility out of service and entertain the absurd notion that it cannot reopen for commercial flights, says the managing director of the airport.