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Covid-19 deaths soar in Yemen – what now?
Jun 17, 2020 03:20As for the UN, Yemen cannot contain the coronavirus pandemic unless the world body stops supporting Saudi Arabia with tacit consent. Yemen needs more than joint statements and emergency food aid appeals. UN statements need to follow with actions and medical aid has to reach the Yemenis now.
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Saudis violate Yemen's Hudaydah truce 65 times in 24 hours: Media
Jun 17, 2020 01:54Yemeni media say Saudi Arabia and its allies have once again breached a ceasefire agreement and violated for 65 times the war-torn country’s airspace above the western coastal province of Hudaydah over the past 24 hours.
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Yemen slams removal of Saudi-led coalition from UN blacklist of child-killers as ‘ineffaceable crime’
Jun 16, 2020 07:48A member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council has sharply censured the United Nations over its decision to remove the Saudi-led coalition from a blacklist for killing and injuring children in the conflict-plagued Arab country, saying the crime that cannot be effaced from its record.
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War-party Washington is broke
Jun 15, 2020 10:56America’s wars on Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen – which were based on lies and paid for by American taxpayers and Saudi cash - have ended with a beaten and bankrupt America. No wonder the political class in Washington cannot afford to keep its military bases running in Europe or Far East, or buy new weaponry. The big picture remains the same: Total defeat and bankruptcy for war-party Washington.
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MSF sounds death knell of Yemen health system amid Saudi war
Jun 14, 2020 07:27The coronavirus crisis has taken the final toll on Yemen’s already struggling healthcare system, a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) official says.
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Iran dismisses UN report on missiles ‘of Iranian origin,’ says body under US, Saudi pressure
Jun 13, 2020 01:41Iran has dismissed a recent claim by the United Nations that missiles used to attack Saudi Arabia have been "of Iranian origin," saying the organization has spoken out under political pressure from the US and the Saudi regime.
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Fuel shortage caused by Saudi blockade adds to Yemen’s woes
Jun 13, 2020 01:19Yemenis have been forced to wait in long lines at gas stations for the third consecutive day amid a severe shortage of fuel. This comes despite the government’s guidelines to contain the spread of COVID-19.
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Girl killed in Saudi Arabia’s Asir as bulldozers demolish family home
Jun 12, 2020 01:57A young Saudi girl has reportedly lost her life as bulldozers razed her family home in the kingdom’s southern region of Asir, nearly two months after regime forces fatally shot a dissident tribal activist in the Tabuk region as he resisted leaving his home to allow construction of a controversial megacity project.
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Yemeni bodies condemn Saudi-led coalition over use of banned cluster bombs in Sana’a
Jun 11, 2020 07:56Yemeni bodies have censured the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition over deploying cluster bombs against a residential neighborhood in the country’s capital province of Sana’a, seriously injuring members of a family.
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Qatar welcomes ‘real’ initiative meant to end Saudi-led blockade: Envoy
Jun 11, 2020 00:41Qatar’s Ambassador to Turkey Salem bin Mubarak Al Shafi says Doha welcomes any genuine initiative that would end the economic and diplomatic blockade Saudi Arabia and a number of its allies imposed on the gas-rich kingdom in June 2017.