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US considers new weapons for Saudi Arabia as kingdom renews Yemen border bombings
Jun 05, 2020 03:57Thousands of tons of weapons, most often supplied by the US, have been dropped on Yemeni hospitals, schools, markets, mosques, farms, factories and water treatment plants and have left unexploded ordnance scattered across densely populated areas. In addition to killing and injuring hundreds of civilians, American-made weapons have exposed Yemen’s people to highly toxic substances on a level not seen before has left Yemen one of the most heavily contaminated countries in the world.
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Aid workers warn more Yemeni women will die as UN cuts maternity funding
Jun 05, 2020 02:11Yemeni women are already losing their lives in childbirth and thousands more will be put at serious risk as reproductive health services in the impoverished country are forced to close due to UN funding cuts, doctors and aid workers warn.
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US State Department inspector general fired while probing Saudi arms sales
Jun 04, 2020 04:13An inspector general at the US State Department who was fired last month has confirmed that he was probing the declaration of an “emergency” to justify the controversial sales of 8 billion dollars’ worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia when he was abruptly relieved of his duties.
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Children of ex-Saudi official in exile missing since detention in March: Family
Jun 04, 2020 04:04The two children of a former Saudi intelligence officer, who has been lying low abroad since the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to power, “have disappeared” since their detention in March, their brother says.
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Saudi-led coalition keeps pounding Yemen
Jun 03, 2020 06:36Fighting has once again erupted in Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah as the Ansarullah movement blames the Saudi-led coalition for breaching a ceasefire that was brokered by the United Nations to avert an offensive on the Red Sea port city.
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Factbox: UN aid programs in Yemen at risk of going broke
Jun 03, 2020 02:47The United Nations said ahead of a pledging conference for Yemen on Tuesday that 30 of 41 major aid programs in the war-torn country would close in the next few weeks without funding.
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Saudi Arabia, Israel in secret talks through US mediation over al-Aqsa Mosque: Report
Jun 02, 2020 00:20Saudi Arabia and the Israeli regime have reportedly been conducting clandestine talks over the past few months through American mediation about the inclusion of the kingdom’s representatives in the Islamic Waqf (Endowment) Council – a religious body that oversees the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds.
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Amid warming to Israel, UAE urges halt to annexation plans
Jun 01, 2020 09:44A minister of the United Arab Emirates has urged Israel to stop its plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, warning of a serious setback for the so-called West Asia peace process.
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Any hostile miscalculation to receive Iran’s crushing response: Top commander
Jun 01, 2020 09:11Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces warned the enemies that a miscalculation in dealing with Iran will trigger a decisive and immediate response from the country’s military forces.
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Commemorating the criminal destruction of Baqi Cemetery
May 31, 2020 05:30Heartfelt condolences to you on the anniversary of a very doleful day, in commemoration of which, many of us are clad in black. Today, the 8th of Shawwal is the day on which 96 lunar years ago in 1345 AH, corresponding to 21 April 1925, Wahhabi terrorists desecrated the sanctity of the sacred cemetery of Jannat al-Baqi in the holy city of Medina.