Posts tagged with "Saudi Arabia"

Masked haj pilgrims on Mount Arafat pray for COVID-free world COMMUNITY

Masked haj pilgrims on Mount Arafat pray for COVID-free world

July 22nd, 20210 MT. ARAFAT — Thousands of face-masked Muslims gathered on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat on Monday, praying for an end to the pandemic and faster vaccination as the annual haj pilgrimage reached its climax. Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina, has barred worshippers from abroad for a second year running and...
Saudi minister says he held "great meeting" with Blinken U.S.A

Saudi minister says he held “great meeting” with Blinken

July 8th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman said he held "a great meeting" on Wednesday with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in which they explored strengthening U.S.-Saudi ties and reviewed regional developments. Prince Khalid, the brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's de facto...
U.S. envoy: Aid programs for Yemen under threat without increased funding World

U.S. envoy: Aid programs for Yemen under threat without increased funding

June 24th, 20210 YEMEN — On Thursday, the U.S. called on the international community, especially regional countries, to fulfill their pledges to increase funding for humanitarian assistance to Yemen and warned that aid programs could otherwise be forced to close. U.S. Special Envoy to Yemen Timothy Lenderking told a webinar sponsored by the...
Ethical Danish pension fund considers excluding Israel over human rights Palestine

Ethical Danish pension fund considers excluding Israel over human rights

May 29th, 20210 A Danish pension fund, which prides itself on being the world's strictest on human rights violations, says it is considering adding Israel to a long list of countries it excludes following this month's conflict with Palestinians. The $22 billion Akademiker looks after the pensions of Denmark's teachers and university lecturers and has...
Activists stage hunger strike, rally in D.C. against the war on Yemen COMMUNITY

Activists stage hunger strike, rally in D.C. against the war on Yemen

April 6th, 20210 - From contributor Laura Albast Activists from the Yemeni Liberation Movement (YLM) and other organizations held a rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. They carried banners calling for an end to the U.S.-backed Saudi blockade on the embattled country.  The five Michigan natives leading the action staged a...
Yemen receives first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines COMMUNITY

Yemen receives first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines

April 2nd, 20210 Yemen received a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines this week, after the country’s internationally recognized government declared a national health emergency. Though the actual figures are believed to be much higher, Yemen’s emergency coronavirus committee has recorded more than 4,100 coronavirus infections and 864 deaths so far. The...
Yemenis reel from poverty, hunger as U.N. pleads for funds and war's end COMMUNITY

Yemenis reel from poverty, hunger as U.N. pleads for funds and war’s end

March 1st, 20210 SANAA — Unable to find work, Ahmed Farea has sold everything, including his wife’s gold, to feed and house two young daughters in one small room. Elsewhere in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, widow Mona Muhammad has work, but struggles to buy anything more nutritious than rice for her four children amid high prices. And in a nearby...
Biden ends U.S. support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen, says war "has to end" COMMUNITY

Biden ends U.S. support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen, says war “has to end”

February 4th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, President Biden declared a halt to U.S. support for a Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen, demanding that the more than six-year war, widely seen as a proxy conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran, “has to end.” Biden also named veteran U.S. diplomat Timothy Lenderking as the U.S. special...
At least 22 killed in Yemen airport explosion COMMUNITY

At least 22 killed in Yemen airport explosion

December 30th, 20200 YEMEN - As the newly formed government arrived at Aden Airport in Yemen, several explosions went off, killing at least 22 and injuring more than 50 people. https://youtu.be/KN2bmuo5CKQ Above: Deadly explosions hit Yemen's Aden Airport as newly formed government arrives (viewer discretion advised) All of the Cabinet members are safe,...
No normalization, but Saudi Arabia and Israel ready to gang up on Iran International

No normalization, but Saudi Arabia and Israel ready to gang up on Iran

November 26th, 20200 RIYADH — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman earlier this week, despite a denial of the meeting by Israeli officials. On the discussion table was a country that has played the role of boogeyman for both Israel and its allies in the U.S. government: Iran. The two leaders talked...
Saudi-led coalition no longer on U.N. blacklist for killing children in Yemen COMMUNITY

Saudi-led coalition no longer on U.N. blacklist for killing children in Yemen

June 15th, 20200 NEW YORK — On Monday U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres removed a Saudi Arabia-led military coalition from a U.N. blacklist. The coalition was condemned and was on the list for several years for killing and injuring children in Yemen. Reuters reports that Guterres wrote in his annual report to the U.N. Security Council on...
Ilhan Omar's signature is more than disappointing, it’s shameful  COMMUNITY

Ilhan Omar’s signature is more than disappointing, it’s shameful 

May 8th, 20202 This week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, urging him to increase "diplomatic action by the United States to renew the expiring United Nations arms embargo against Iran and United Nations travel restrictions on those Iranian individuals involved...
Saudi Arabia suspends prayers in the arenas outside Mecca, Medina holy mosques Health

Saudi Arabia suspends prayers in the arenas outside Mecca, Medina holy mosques

March 19th, 20200 RIYADH — On Thursday, Saudi Arabia suspended Muslims from conducting their five daily prayers and the weekly Friday prayer in the overflow area just outside the walls of the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina to limit the spread of the coronavirus. On Tuesday, the Kingdom said it will no longer allow Muslims to conduct prayers...
Saudi’s suspend pilgrimages, Coronavirus widespread in Iran World

Saudi’s suspend pilgrimages, Coronavirus widespread in Iran

March 4th, 20200 RIYADH -  Saudi Arabia has extended its suspension of travel to the holy sites of Mecca and Medina from foreigners to Saudi citizens and residents, after it reported its first case of the novel coronavirus in an individual who failed to disclose he had travelled to Iran before entering the country. “Based on the recommendations of...
After Florida killings, Saudis withdraw 21 cadets from the United States U.S.A

After Florida killings, Saudis withdraw 21 cadets from the United States

January 13th, 20200 WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia will withdraw 21 cadets receiving military training in the United States following a U.S. investigation into a Saudi officer’s fatal shooting of three Americans at a Florida naval base that Attorney General William Barr branded an act of terrorism on Monday. The Dec. 6 attack further complicated...
Asylum applications from Saudis up 106 percent this year alone, European Union says World

Asylum applications from Saudis up 106 percent this year alone, European Union says

August 26th, 20190 VALETTA, MALTA — The number of Saudi Arabian nationals applying for asylum in the European Union has increased by 106 percent in the first six months of 2019 alone, according to official figures released last week by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). The latest data shows that 101 Saudis applied for asylum in the EU during...
Saudi Arabia fails to gather a firm Arab stand against Iran World

Saudi Arabia fails to gather a firm Arab stand against Iran

May 31st, 20190 MECCA — Saudi Arabia’s king told an emergency Arab summit on Thursday that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian “escalations” in the region following attacks on Gulf oil assets, as American officials said a U.S. military deployment had deterred Tehran. King Salman had opened an earlier meeting of Arab Gulf leaders with a...
Yemen's Houthis say they launched drone attack on Saudi's Najran airport World

Yemen’s Houthis say they launched drone attack on Saudi’s Najran airport

May 24th, 20190 DUBAI — On Thursday, Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement  launched a drone attack on a Patriot missile battery in the airport of the Saudi city of Najran near the Yemeni border, the group’s Al-Masirah TV said on Thursday. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis said the drone was intercepted and destroyed by the...
Local community commemorate the 37 lives brutally executed in Saudi Arabia COMMUNITY

Local community commemorate the 37 lives brutally executed in Saudi Arabia

May 10th, 20190 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On Saturday, May 4, public officials, religious and community leaders came together in the Islamic Institute of America (IIA) to commemorate the innocent people who were brutally beheaded by the Saudi regime. Saudi Arabia beheaded 37 of its citizens on April 23, in the largest mass execution the country has...
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