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(Eagle News) — The Philippines on Saturday expressed “serious concern” over the series of ballistic missile attacks against Saudi Arabia, including the recent launches that it said targeted populated areas of Riyadh. In a statement, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said “this puts innocent civilians, including many of our kababayans there, at serious risk.” Cayetano was referring to a ballistic missile fired by a Yemeni group and which was intercepted by Saudi Arabia on […]
SANAA, Yemen (AFP ) – The Saudi-led coalition carried out a string of air raids Wednesday in Yemen, killing 11 civilians in the Huthi stronghold of Saada a day after the rebels fired a missile at Riyadh, a tribal chief and witnesses said. On the ground, unidentified assailants attacked Huthis guarding the Sanaa residence of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was killed by the Shiite rebels earlier this month. An unspecified number of Huthi guards died in the attack, […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Tehran strongly denied on Wednesday that it had supplied weapons to Yemeni rebels which they used in attacks on its archfoe Saudi Arabia as alleged by both Riyadh and Washington. “We have no arms link with Yemen,” foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi told the ISNA news agency, after Saudi Arabia said it had intercepted a rebel missile over Riyadh on Tuesday that it suggested was “Iranian-manufactured.” “The accusation that Iran gives weapons […]
by Abdul Hadi Habtor and Rania Sanjar Agence France-Presse RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia said it shot down a ballistic missile Tuesday over Riyadh fired from Yemen by Iran-backed Huthi rebels, who announced that the target was the official residence of King Salman. The audacious attack aimed at the heart of Saudi power follows the downing of another missile last month near Riyadh airport that triggered the tightening of a Saudi-led blockade on hunger-stricken Yemen. For […]
by Katy Lee and Valérie Leroux Agence France-Presse (PARIS, France) – A thousand days of bloodshed: as Yemen prepares to mark Wednesday’s grim anniversary, aid workers are urging world powers to bring an end to a “forgotten” conflict. Photographs of children starving to death have failed to spur the international community into ending the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, which charities warn is deepening by the day. “There are things that could happen tomorrow that could stop children from […]
by Katy Lee Agence France Presse PARIS France (AFP) — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been revealed as the owner of a French chateau described as the world’s most expensive home, according to a report in the New York Times. The purchase of the vast property west of Paris for $300 million (275 million euros) would be the latest in a string of extravagant purchases by the powerful prince, who has been waging […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi Arabia on Monday lifted a decades-long ban on cinemas, part of a series of social reforms by the powerful crown prince that are shaking up the ultra-conservative kingdom. “Commercial cinemas will be allowed to operate in the kingdom as of early 2018, for the first time in more than 35 years,” the culture and information ministry said in a statement, adding that the government will begin licensing cinemas immediately. […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday called for a ceasefire in Yemen in light of an ongoing humanitarian crisis, his spokesman said. Guterres “calls on all parties to the conflict to cease all air and ground assaults” and is “deeply concerned about the sharp escalation of armed clashes” over the past several days, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. “Ambulances and medical teams cannot access the injured and people cannot […]
by Anuj Chopra with Natacha Yazbeck in Dubai Agence France-Presse RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) – Saudi Arabia on Thursday intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired from war-torn Yemen, state media reported, the second such attack this month claimed by Iran-backed Huthi rebels. The missile targeted the southern Saudi city of Khamis Mushait, with authorities reporting no casualties, just hours after the rebels threatened to retaliate over a crippling blockade on Yemen. A Saudi-led coalition fighting the […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May has implored Saudi leaders to ease a blockade on Yemen to “avert a humanitarian catastrophe,” her office said on Thursday, echoing urgent appeals from the United Nations. May met both King Salman and powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on a brief visit to Riyadh late on Wednesday, with a worsening crisis in Yemen topping her agenda. May had promised to raise concerns over Yemen where […]
by Anuj Chopra Agence France Presse RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May landed in Riyadh Wednesday for talks with the Saudi king and crown prince, with Yemen’s brewing humanitarian crisis and the kingdom’s sweeping reforms topping her agenda. May flew in to the Saudi capital on the second leg of her Middle East tour, following a surprise visit to Baghdad where she met her Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi and hailed recent […]
by Anuj Chopra Agence France Presse RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince vowed to “pursue terrorists until they are wiped from the face of the earth” as officials from 40 Muslim countries gathered Sunday in the first meeting of an Islamic counter-terrorism alliance. “In past years, terrorism has been functioning in all of our countries… with no coordination” among national authorities, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is also Saudi defence minister, said […]
