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US says making progress with Saudi Arabia on possible nuclear program deal
Oct 27, 2019 04:47US Energy Secretary Rick Perry says conversations with Saudi Arabia on a nuclear program are going forward, despite fears that Riyadh aims to acquire nuclear weapons.
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Yemen’s Ansarullah, Saudi-sponsored militiamen exchange 7,000 prisoners: NCPA head
Oct 26, 2019 18:06The head of Yemen’s National Committee for Prisoners Affairs (NCPA), Abdulqader al-Mortada, says the Ansarullah movement and Saudi-sponsored Yemeni militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi have exchanged thousands of detainees.
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FM calls for end to killing of civilians, blockade of war-torn Yemen
Oct 26, 2019 17:58Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the ongoing crisis in Yemen should only be solved through political approaches, calling for an end to the killing of civilians and the Saudi-led blockade of the war-ravaged country.
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Saudi Arabia arrests, hands down jail terms to three dissident Muslim preachers
Oct 25, 2019 03:19Saudi authorities have reportedly arrested and handed down prison sentences to three dissident Muslim preachers, as a brutal crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against clerics and intellectuals widens in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
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Yemen’s timely war crimes summons for Trump, MBS, others
Oct 24, 2019 06:58Criminals cannot escape the consequences of their evil deeds, and sooner or later they will be brought to justice to receive the punishments they deserve; if not in the brief life of this transient world, most surely in the Hereafter where they will be trapped in perpetual agony.
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Yemeni children continue to bear brunt of Saudi war
Oct 24, 2019 04:50On the 30th anniversary of the world's convention of Rights of child, the UNICEF held in Yemen's capital Sana'a held a press conference giving the country's children a podium to make their voice heard on how the Saudi led war has undermined and violated all internationally cherished laws and norms.
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Saudi king sacks foreign minister 10 months after his appointment
Oct 24, 2019 04:44Saudi Arabia's King Salman has named Prince Faisal bin Farhan Ale Saud as the country’s new foreign minister only 10 months after appointing his predecessor.
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Death, bloodshed, and misery in Yemen
Oct 22, 2019 16:41It is now over four and-a-half years that Saudi Arabia and the UAE, with the backing and weapons supply of the U.S., Britain, and France have imposed a destructive war on Yemen that beside the killing of over a hundred thousand men, women, and children, has destroyed the infrastructure and is threatening the country with famine and epidemics. Yet the weapons manufacturers of the U.S. and Britain, such as Raytheon shamelessly proclaim: "Strike with creativity!"
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WHO says cholera has killed over 910 people in Yemen since January
Oct 22, 2019 02:32The World Health Organization (WHO) says cholera has killed more than 910 people in war-torn Yemen since January and nearly 700,000 suspected cholera cases has been reported.
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Saudi airstrikes leave five more civilians dead in northern Yemen
Oct 21, 2019 16:51At least five civilians have been killed when Saudi military aircraft carried out airstrikes in Yemen’s mountainous northern province of Sa’ada as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its atrocious bombardment campaign against its crisis-hit southern neighbor.