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New humanitarian crisis in Yemen
Jun 10, 2020 10:52Saudi Arabia and its partners in crime have intensified their bombing campaign as the COVID-19 outbreak looms over Yemen. This is while efforts are underway through an emergency donor conference to support the war-torn country as it faces a coronavirus catastrophe in the sixth year of the Saudi-led military campaign. Aid groups have warned that the fast-spreading virus could wreak havoc after years of war and amid crippling funding shortages.
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Canada doubles arms sales to Saudi Arabia despite dire rights record: New figures
Jun 10, 2020 05:19Newly-released figures have revealed that Canada’s sales of military hardware to Saudi Arabia hit a record in 2019, despite a moratorium that was in place on approval of new arms exports to the kingdom due its poor human rights record.
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OPEC agrees to extend output cuts by one month: Iran minister
Jun 07, 2020 01:56Members of The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have agreed to extend a deal on reduction of output provided that non-OPEC producers would comply with their share of the cuts, according to Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh.
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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.