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Oil prices slide 7% after producers' meeting is postponed
Apr 06, 2020 08:27Global benchmark oil prices traded as much as $3 a barrel lower as the market opened for Monday's trading session, reflecting fears of oversupply after Saudi Arabia and Russia postponed to Thursday a meeting about a potential pact to cut production.
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Coronavirus outbreak threatens poor districts in Saudi Arabia’s Mecca: Report
Apr 06, 2020 07:59Saudi activists have expressed serious concern over the spread of the novel coronavirus in some neighborhoods of the holy city of Mecca, emphasizing that the slums are hotspots for the severe outbreak as they are densely-populated and suffer from unsanitary conditions and weak health infrastructure.
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Yemeni army refutes Saudi allegation of attack on oil pipeline in Ma’rib
Apr 06, 2020 07:49The Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree has categorically dismissed an allegation by Saudi media outlets that Yemeni troops and allied fighters from the Popular Committees have attacked an oil pumping station in the Central Province of Ma’rib as “baseless.”
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Amnesty International calls on Saudi monarch to release senior Hamas official, his son
Apr 05, 2020 06:31Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia's King Salman to order the immediate release of a high-ranking official of the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas and his son, citing his poor health condition amid the spread of the highly contagious new coronavirus.
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UAE altering demographics of Yemen’s Tai’zz to dislodge fmr. pro-Saudi govt.: Former official
Apr 04, 2020 15:15The former governor of Yemen’s southwestern Ta'izz province has said that the United Arab Emirates is manipulating the demographic composition of the province to weaken pro-Saudi forces, exposing further rift in the Saudi-led coalition.
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Israel, Saudi Arabia impose heavy-handed measures amid virus pandemic
Apr 03, 2020 12:06Israeli regime and Saudi Arabia have launched crackdown on certain population centers as cases of COVID-19 infections surge there.
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As coronavirus spreads, UN seeks nationwide ceasefire in Yemen
Apr 03, 2020 05:38UN Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths has engaged in talks with the country's warring parties to secure a nationwide ceasefire amid fears of the spread of the new coronavirus in the war-ravaged impoverished Arab nation.
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Saudi Arabia launches massive arrest campaign against activists amid coronavirus pandemic
Apr 02, 2020 14:01Saudi authorities have launched a new round of massive arrest campaign against media activists and human rights campaigners, exploiting the world’s focus on the global coronavirus pandemic, a rights group says.
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Ansurullah calls on Saudi-led alliance to consider Yemen’s mediation proposal
Apr 02, 2020 13:57Yemen’s popular Ansarullah Movement has called on the Saudi-led coalition of aggressors to consider its proposal for 12-party mediation aimed at ending the bloody war on the impoverished Arab state.
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Iran rejects Saudi-led coalition claims, asks Riyadh to wake up to realities on the ground
Apr 02, 2020 05:16Foreign Ministry spokesman has rejected recent anti-Iran claims by the Saudi-led coalition waging a war on Yemen, saying the military alliance cannot make up for its failures through playing a blame game and pointing the finger at others.