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Saudi Arabia Renews Call for Classifying Houthi Militias as Terrorists, Drying up Their Funding Sources

Saudi Arabia has renewed its call for the international community to label Houthi militias in Yemen as a terrorist group and dry up their funding sources. During a session in Jeddah, the Saudi Cabinet reiterated the Kingdom's continued support for international peacemaking efforts in Yemen. King Salman bin Abdulaziz chaired…

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Children starve as Yemen teeters on a return to fighting

Starvation has threatened Yemen’s children for years

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Saudi-Yemeni Business Council Formed to Complete Joint Projects

Saudi Arabia and Yemen are strengthening investment and economic cooperation by building partnerships between their private sectors to seize available opportunities. This affirms Riyadh’s commitment to development and economic projects in Yemen. The Federation of Saudi Chambers announced on Monday accrediting the final formation of the Saudi-Yemeni Business Council for…

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Houthi Landmines Kill 100 Civilians During Ceasefire in Yemen

The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs revealed that casualties increased by 38 percent during the truce due to Houthi landmines. According to the latest UN office reports, 169 children and 79 women were killed or injured in the six months following the truce, citing landmines and unexploded artillery as…

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Lenderking Meets Al-Alimi as he Kicks off Tour to Back Extension of Yemen Truce

United States envoy to Yemen, Tim Lenderking kicked off his new tour of the region in Riyadh where he held talks with Chairman of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council Dr. Rashad Al-Alimi. Lenderking is in the region to garner support for the extension of the nationwide truce in the war-torn…

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Grundberg Urges Yemen’s Warring Parties to Extend Truce

The United Nations’ Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grunberg, described on Thursday the nationwide truce that was in place since April as an “historic opportunity to build trust and to work towards a peaceful settlement of the conflict.” “On 2nd of October, the day the second extension of the…

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Saudi Arabia Urges Designation of Houthis as Terrorist

Saudi Arabia called on Thursday for the designation of the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen as terrorist. The Kingdom’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr. Abdulaziz al-Wasil said the time has come for the designation and for the boycott of the militias and drying up of their sources of funding.

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UN chief urges Yemen's warring parties to extend truce

The U.N. special envoy for Yemen is blaming Houthi rebels for the failure to renew a six-month-long truce

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'Restitution' of looted African art just continues colonial policies - much more is at stake

The violence of the past is far from over. But it is disguised in many ways, made invisible and normalised. What started with the Spanish, Portuguese or the Ottoman empires continued with the British, French and Russian empires, and now the United States. Imperial political violence continues today in Palestine,…

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Liz Truss branded 'evil' for voting against ban on arms sales to Saudi Arabia

LIZ Truss has been branded "sadistic and evil" for voting against a ban on arms being sent to Saudi Arabia.

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Lenderking, Grundberg Resume Mobilization to Extend Yemen Truce

The US Department of State announced that the US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking will return to the region to support UN efforts to expand and extend the Yemeni truce. Lenderking’s return to the Middle East comes at a time when Houthi militias in Yemen have exhibited intransigence. Moreover,…

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Khalid bin Salman Affirms Saudi-led Coalition Continuous Support to Yemeni People, Govt

Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman held talks with Yemen’s Minister of Defense Lieutenant General Mohsen Al Daari on Wednesday. During the meeting, they discussed joint cooperation between the two brotherly countries in the military and defense fields. They also highlighted UN efforts to extend truce and alleviate the…

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Saudi-led coalition says it exchanged POW visits with Yemen's Houthis

Two delegations from the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen and the Iran-aligned Houthis exchanged visits to prisoners of war on Wednesday as a gesture of goodwill and a confidence-building measure to extend the truce in Yemen, the coalition said in a statement carried by the Saudi state news agency SPA.

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Saudi foreign minister says efforts to extend the truce in Yemen still stand

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said that the efforts to extend the truce in Yemen still stand, Al Arabiya TV reported on Wednesday, after an initial U.N.-brokered pact between a Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi movement expired early this month.

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Alimi Urges European Countries to Pressure Houthis on Yemen Peace

The head of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad Al-Alimi, has called on European officials to put more pressure on the Houthi militias to push them toward the path of peace. Yemeni official sources stated that Alimi met in Riyadh with the assistant Secretary-General of the European Union, Enrique Mora,…

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Democrats Disagree Over Relationship with Saudi Arabia

US Democratic Representatives have tackled the Saudi-US relationship, with Representative Adam Smith warning against launching vague and incomprehensible threats against Saudi Arabia. Earlier, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said President Joe Biden is willing to begin reevaluating the US-Saudi ties after the Kingdom and its oil-exporting allies announced…

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Hamas Revives Ties with Syria

The Palestinian Hamas movement that rules Gaza is reviving relations with the Iran-backed regime in Damascus after a decade-long rupture sparked by the outbreak of Syria's bloody war. Analysts say the shift pushes Hamas deeper into the fold of the Iran-led "axis of resistance" against Israel that includes Syria as…

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UN flight from rebel-held Yemen capital returns 129 migrants

The U.N. has returned 129 Ethiopian migrants stranded in war-torn Yemen to their homeland in its first humanitarian repatriation flight to depart from the rebel-held capital of Sanaa this year

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Yemen’s PLC Rejects Houthi Blackmail, Calls for ‘Firm’ Int’l Pressure on Militias

Members of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) reiterated on Monday their rejection of the Iran-backed Houthi militias’ attempted political blackmail, calling on the international community to pressure them to accept peace. According to official sources, PLC deputy head Aidarous al-Zubaidi discussed on Monday with Charge d’Affaires of the Indian Embassy…

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Saudi Defense Minister, Al-Alimi Discuss Efforts to Extend Yemen Truce

Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman held in Riyadh talks on Monday with Chairman of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council Dr. Rashad al-Alimi. Their meeting focused on United Nations efforts to extend the nationwide truce that expired on October 2. Prince Khalid tweeted that the talks tackled efforts to…

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Yemen’s PLC Affirms Commitment to End Houthi Coup

The Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) is committed to achieving a just, comprehensive, and sustainable peace that meets the Yemeni people’s aspirations for restoring state institutions and ending the coup waged by Iran-backed militias, affirmed Rashad Al-Alimi, chairman of the PLC. Al-Alimi’s assertion was made at a meeting between the…

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Saudi MASAM Removes over 360,573 Mines Planted by Houthis in Yemen

The Saudi Project for Landmines Clearance in Yemen (MASAM) announced Friday that it has successfully removed 360,573 landmines, improvised explosive devices and various unexploded ordnance in eight liberated provinces in Yemen. It said a number of Arab studies and research centers in Cairo have recently honored this project by MASAM…

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Yemen: Militias Reopen Iranian Hospital That Was Used as Spy Center

The Iranian-backed Houthi militias reopened an Iranian hospital in Sanaa, 13 years after closing it and using it as a center for spying and promoting extremism. The militias changed the hospital's name and allocated more than 3.5 billion riyals to equip it. The move is considered one of the group's…

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End of Yemen’s truce leaves civilians afraid dark days are back

The truce lasted for six months and expired on October 2, with efforts to renew it unsuccessful so far.

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IMF Expects Yemen to Achieve 2% Economic Growth

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission expected that Yemen would achieve a modest economic growth of about two percent this year and 3.2 percent in 2023. However, the Fund called for more reforms, especially with regard to the customs dollar rate, support for the electricity sector, transparency in financial management,…

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