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Saudi-backed Yemeni delegates head to Sweden for peace talks
Dec 05, 2018 11:20A delegation from Yemen’s former Saudi-sponsored government has left Riyadh for Sweden to attend UN-brokered peace talks with representatives from the Ansarullah movement as a push by the world body to end a devastating Saudi-led war on Yemen gains steam.
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UN warns humanitarian crisis in Yemen to deteriorate next year
Dec 05, 2018 05:05The United Nations says the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, already the worst in the world, will deteriorate in 2019, nearly four years after a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia invaded the impoverished country and began an intense campaign of airstrikes and ground attacks which are still ongoing.
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Ansarullah delegation departs Yemen for peace talks in Sweden
Dec 05, 2018 03:19Delegates from the Ansarullah movement, escorted by United Nations Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths, have flown from the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a to Sweden to attend UN-sponsored peace negotiations with representatives from the administration of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
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Yemen's Ansarullah, Saudi-led coalition reach prisoner exchange deal
Dec 04, 2018 09:04An Ansarullah movement’s official says the Saudi-led coalition and militants fighting on its behalf in Yemen have signed a UN-brokered deal for exchanging prisoners with the Ansarullah movement, prior to the peace negotiations due to be launched in Sweden.
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Saudi-led coalition continues to use banned munitions in Yemen: Military official
Dec 04, 2018 06:06The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces says the Saudi-led military coalition continues to use internationally-banned weapons, particularly cluster bombs, in its aerial bombardment of residential neighborhoods in Yemen despite a global outcry against the use of such munitions by Saudi Arabia and its allies.
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UN aircraft moves 50 wounded Ansarullah fighters to Oman for treatment
Dec 04, 2018 03:09A group of 50 wounded fighters from the Yemeni Ansarullah movement have been flown out of the war-torn country for treatment as part of measures aimed at paving the way for planned peace talks brokered by the United Nations after nearly four years of war.
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Halting arms exports to aggressors facilitates Yemen peace: Iran
Dec 04, 2018 03:03Iran's Foreign Ministry says halting arms exports to parties involved in the aggression against Yemen will facilitate the achievement of peace in the war-torn country as belligerent sides are heading for renewed UN-brokered peace talks in Sweden.
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Saudi warplanes continue to bomb Yemen with banned munitions
Dec 03, 2018 13:41The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces says the Saudi-led military coalition continues to use internationally-banned weapons, particularly cluster bombs, in its aerial bombardment campaign against residential neighborhoods in Yemen despite a global outcry against the use of such munitions by Saudi Arabia and its allies.
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Riyadh submits to Ansarullah demand to evacuate injured ahead of peace talks
Dec 03, 2018 05:32Saudi Arabia has submitted to Yemen's demands to evacuate 50 wounded Ansarullah fighters to Oman for treatment ahead of new UN-brokered peace talks.
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Zarif blasts ‘surrealism’ guiding US foreign policy
Dec 03, 2018 03:33Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemns the “surrealism” informing the US’ foreign policy after his American counterpart accuses Tehran of violating the very UN Security Council resolution that Washington is in breach of.