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Saudi Arabia jails social media activist over critical tweets about unemployment
Nov 29, 2022 02:55Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested an activist for critical tweets about the House of Saud and unemployment in the kingdom, in yet another sign of the Riyadh regime’s aggressive crackdown on dissent on social media.
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Saudi war internally displaced more than five million Yemenis: Report
Nov 28, 2022 09:55The number of internally displaced persons in Yemen has increased to more than 5 million by the end of August 2022, amid an ongoing devastating Saudi war and worsening humanitarian conditions in the war-hit Arab country.
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Yemen urges UN to save lives of over 5,000 patients suffering from kidney failure
Nov 27, 2022 03:16The Yemeni Health Ministry has called on the United Nations to intervene immediately and save the lives of more than 5,000 kidney failure patients in the war-torn country, as health facilities are facing a severe shortfall of essential supplies and medication to treat the patients properly.
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Saudi Arabia detains wife, daughter of jailed dissident as crackdown widens
Nov 26, 2022 10:59Saudi authorities have reportedly arrested the wife and daughter of a jailed dissident, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against political opponents, scholars, human rights activists and pro-democracy campaigners widens in the kingdom.
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Another Yemen-bound fuel ship seized by Saudi-led coalition in fresh act of piracy
Nov 25, 2022 04:51In a fresh act of piracy against the besieged Yemeni nation, the Saudi-led coalition has seized yet another Yemen-bound fuel tanker and did not allow it to dock at the western Hudaydah Port and offload its crucially needed cargo.
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‘Some Western states incited public emotions, stoked riots, terrorist attacks in Iran’
Nov 24, 2022 11:36Iran has strongly condemned “some Western states” for stoking riots and acts of violence in the country through inciting public emotions, calling their instrumental use of human rights “disgraceful.”
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Iran, Saudi Arabia tension-easing talks move from security to diplomatic phase: Iraq
Nov 24, 2022 02:35The spokesman for Iraq’s foreign ministry says tension-easing talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia brokered by Baghdad have made tangible progress and moved from security to the diplomatic phase.
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UN envoy raises alarm at worsening crisis in Yemen, urges truce renewal
Nov 23, 2022 04:47The UN special envoy for Yemen sounds the alarm over a worsening economic and humanitarian situation in the war-ravaged country, which remains under a crippling Saudi-led siege, calling for a renewed cessation of attacks on Yemen by Riyadh and its coalition allies.
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UN rights office censures Saudi regime over surge in executions
Nov 23, 2022 02:27The United Nations human rights office has censured Saudi Arabia over the ultraconservative kingdom’s near daily executions in recent weeks and termination of a 21-month moratorium on implementing the death penalty for drug-related offenses.
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Yemeni army thwarts attempt by foreign ship to steal 'enormous' amounts of country's oil
Nov 22, 2022 05:11Yemeni armed forces say they have successfully prevented a foreign oil tanker from stealing the country's direly-needed oil by forcing the vessel away from a southern port.