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US imposes illegal sanctions on Iranian airline, shipping industry
Dec 12, 2019 06:13The new sanctions were announced only days after prisoner swap between Tehran and Washington.
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One thousand Yemeni children die daily due to Saudi-led attacks, siege: Health minister
Dec 11, 2019 17:50The Yemeni minister of public health and population has warned about the catastrophic toll that the ongoing Saudi-led military onslaught and blockade has taken, stating that it is estimated that 1,000 children die in the crisis-hit and impoverished Arab country on a daily basis.
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Iran hits back at Persian Gulf states over ‘destructive’ PGCC statement
Dec 11, 2019 12:56The Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) released the statement in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Tuesday at the end of its 40th summit, urging a united front against the Islamic Republic, calling for global action targeting the country’s nuclear energy program, and disputing the Iranian sovereignty over a threesome group of islands in the strategic body of water.
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Ship likely carrying Saudi arms flees Spanish port after protest
Dec 11, 2019 11:20Spanish peace groups have staged a protest at an eastern port against the presence of a Saudi ship they suspect was carrying weapons from the United States to be used in Yemen.
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US bars former Saudi diplomat from entering country
Dec 11, 2019 08:23The United States has barred from entering the country Mohammed al Otaibi, who was the Saudi consul general in Istanbul in October 2018 when dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was slaughtered there.
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Saudi gunman 'legally' purchased pistol used in US terror attack
Dec 11, 2019 07:33The Saudi gunman purchased the pistol used in an attack on a US airbase legally from the country, the FBI has revealed.
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UN ‘unable’ to verify claims Iran was behind Saudi Aramco attacks
Dec 11, 2019 07:26United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the world body’s investigators are “unable to independently corroborate” the US and Saudi claims that Iran was behind attacks on the kingdom's Aramco oil facilities in September.
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Yemeni army forces, allies shoot down another Saudi-led reconnaissance drone
Dec 10, 2019 17:06Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from the Popular Committees, have intercepted and targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the Saudi-led military coalition while flying in the skies over Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Najran.
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Qatari emir turns down Saudi invitation to join PGCC summit in Riyadh
Dec 10, 2019 11:31Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has turned down an invitation by Saudi Arabia to attend the annual meeting of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) in Riyadh.
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Saudi Arabia projects 2020 budget deficit to grow to $50bn
Dec 10, 2019 06:13Saudi Arabia says its budget deficit for the coming year will increase as the Arab kingdom, the world's top oil exporter, faces falling oil prices and production reductions.