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UNICEF: War a ‘living hell’ for Yemeni children

September 16th, 20180 SANAA — In the malnutrition ward of a hospital in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, doctors weigh toddlers with protruding rib cages and skeletal limbs. Twenty children, most under the age of 2, being treated at the ward in Sab’een Hospital are among hundreds of thousands of children suffering from severe malnutrition in the impoverished...

World

Yemen: Houthis fire two missiles at Saudi Arabia

August 26th, 20180 Yemen’s Houthi group fired two Zelzal-1 missiles in the direction of Saudi Arabian provinces alongside the joint border, the Houthis’ Masirah TV said in a tweet on Sunday. The two missiles targeted “gatherings of Saudi soldiers,” one in Jizan and the other in Najran, it said. The Saudi armed forces did not confirm the...

World

Pilgrims pray and give praise as haj winds down in Mecca

August 25th, 20180 MINA, Saudi Arabia — More than two million haj pilgrims headed back to Mecca for final prayers on Thursday as organizers said the world’s largest annual gathering of Muslims had gone smoothly in the face of political tensions and huge logistical challenges. Senior Saudi officials said the rituals - which have been marred in the...

World

Muslims at haj converge on Jamarat for ritual stoning of the devil

August 22nd, 20180 JAMARAT, Saudi Arabia - More than 2 million Muslim pilgrims hurled pebbles at a giant wall in a symbolic stoning of the devil on Tuesday, the riskiest stage of the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia where hundreds died in a crush three years ago. Clad in white robes signifying a state of purity, men and women from 165 countries...

World

Yemen: Saudi-led coalition air strikes kill dozens of civilians, mainly children

August 11th, 20180 ADEN — Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Thursday killed dozens of people, including children traveling on a bus through a market, in Yemen’s Saada province, a Yemeni health official and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. The Western-backed alliance fighting the Houthi Yemeni group said in a statement that...

World

Saudi Arabia arrests two women’s rights activists

August 1st, 20180 Saudi Arabia has arrested two more women’s rights activists, the latest to be swept up in a government crackdown on activists, clerics and journalists, an international rights group said on Wednesday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said authorities arrested Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah in the past two days. More than a dozen...

Palestine

Four Arab states support U.S. ‘deal of the century’ in the Middle East

July 1st, 20180 AMMAN/WASHINGTON — Four Arab states have backed the U.S. plan for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, regardless of the position of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, an Israeli newspaper reports. The Israel Hayom daily interviewed officials from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan who...

COMMUNITY

Dearborn’s Yemeni community joins national efforts to help children in the war-torn country

June 1st, 20181 By Sarah Kominek The Arab American News DEARBORN — Saudi Arabia's ongoing intervention in Yemen has caused a humanitarian crisis that affects millions of people. Local organizations are working to help Yemeni families suffering from starvation and disease. According to the United Nations, 22 million people in...

COMMUNITY

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow urges harder push for a ‘blue wave’, vows to stand against bigotry in Washington

June 1st, 20180 The ban has nothing to do with safety, makes us less safe around the world and negatively impacts our families in Michigan DEARBORN — It's no surprise that people the world over are attracted to the message of change. As one crisis and protest follows after another, it seems like people are forcibly grasping for...

World

Saudi Arabia expands crackdown on women’s rights activists

May 22nd, 20180 RIYADH ― Saudi Arabia has arrested at least three more women’s rights activists in a widening crackdown just weeks before a ban on women driving is set to end, international rights watchdogs said on Tuesday. Rights groups last week reported the detention of seven activists, mostly women who previously campaigned for the right to...

Opinions

Comparative geopolitical analysis: Yemen and the U.S.

April 30th, 20180 By Dr. Rais Attamimi and Dr. Ali Alghail Recently, some comparative analysis has been in the mainstream media about the way in which, to take one example, American citizens led by the teenagers protested the dangerous availability of assault weapons on the one hand, and citizens of the Middle East, Yemen in particular, when,...

World

Four Arab states stick by Qatar demands despite U.S. pressure to end rift

April 13th, 20180 CAIRO – Four Arab states who cut relations with Qatar over its close ties with Iran and Turkey are sticking to an ultimatum they issued the Gulf state last year, Egypt’s MENA news agency said on Thursday, despite U.S. pressure for a swift end to the dispute. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates sent Doha a...

World

Fashionably late: Saudi Arabia hosts its first-ever fashion week

April 13th, 20180 RIYADH – Fashionable women, dark-haired Saudis and blonde Eastern Europeans alike, fill the gold-trimmed halls of Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel, marking the start of Saudi Arabia’s first-ever fashion week. Models and makeup artists preparing for the inaugural Saudi episode of Arab Fashion Week said they were surprised the event...

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Spain signs $2.2 billion deal to sell warships to Saudi Arabia

April 13th, 20180 MADRID — On Thursday, Spain signed a framework deal to sell Saudi Arabia warships worth around $2.2 billion, a Spanish Defense Ministry source said. Under the agreement, Spanish state-owned shipbuilder Navantia will sell five small warships, Spain's army will train Saudi military personnel and contractors will build a naval...

World

Trump postpones planned summit with Gulf leaders amid ongoing dispute between U.S. allies

April 6th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration is postponing until September a summit with Gulf Arab leaders that had been planned for this spring amid an ongoing dispute between Qatar and other U.S. allies in the region, according to five U.S. officials. The decision to delay the May summit with the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council...

World

Saudi crown prince: Israelis have right to their own land

April 3rd, 20180 RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said in a published interview that Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land, another public sign of an apparent thawing in ties between the two countries. Asked if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation state in at least part of what they consider their...

Opinions

Expanding the ‘our’ in the march for our lives

March 30th, 20180 By Mary Turfah On March 24, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets of Washington D.C., New York, Detroit and elsewhere to protest gun violence—or at least part of it. The Parkland school shooting victims — around whose misfortune these protests arose— have demonstrated their readiness to use their...

U.S.A

Saudi Arabia must face U.S. lawsuits over Sept. 11 attacks

March 29th, 20180 NEW YORK — A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Saudi Arabia’s bid to dismiss lawsuits claiming that it helped plan the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and should pay billions of dollars in damages to victims. U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan said the plaintiffs’ allegations “narrowly articulate a reasonable basis”...

World

Barrage of missiles on Saudi Arabia ramps up Yemen war

March 26th, 20180 RIYADH/SANAA — The Houthi movement that controls northern Yemen vowed on Monday to fire more missiles into Saudi Arabia unless it stops bombing the country, after one of its missiles caused casualties in the Saudi capital for the first time. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis accused them of using Iranian-made missiles....

World

Macron pressured to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE

March 23rd, 20180 PARIS — Two rights groups have given the French government two months to halt weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates or face legal action, adding to pressure on President Emmanuel Macron to scale back support of a Riyadh-led offensive in Yemen. The action comes as some European states, notably Germany, have...

U.S.A

Trump’s red-carpet reception for Saudi crown prince: Give us your money!

March 23rd, 20180 WASHINGTON — President Trump gave a warm welcome to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday and credited U.S. defense sales to the Saudis with boosting American jobs, even as Riyadh's involvement in Yemen's civil war faced criticism. In the Oval Office, Trump and the crown prince praised the strength of U.S.-Saudi...

World

Houthis and Saudi Arabia in secret talks to end war in Yemen

March 16th, 20180 RIYADH/SANAA — Saudi Arabia and its adversaries in Yemen's armed Houthi movement are holding secret talks to try to end a three-year-old war that has unleashed the world's worst humanitarian crisis, diplomats and Yemeni political sources said. A Saudi-led coalition is fighting to counter the influence of Riyadh's arch-foe Iran, an...

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Saudi crown prince: Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear bomb if Iran does

March 16th, 20180 RIYADH — Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear weapons if its arch-rival Iran does so, the kingdom's crown prince said in remarks released on Thursday, raising the prospect of a nuclear arms race in a region already riven with conflict. "Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt if Iran developed a...

World

Netanyahu warns U.S. lawmakers about Saudi nuclear power deal

March 9th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. and Saudi negotiators have yet to reach a deal to allow American companies to build nuclear power reactors in the kingdom, but the idea is already getting pushback from Israeli Prime Minister and Trump ally Benjamin Netanyahu. On Tuesday, Netanyahu, during a closed door meeting with the Senate Foreign...

World

Saudi Arabia: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tightens grip on power, reshuffles military

February 27th, 20180 RIYADH - Saudi Arabia has replaced some of its top military officers in a shake-up that elevates a younger generation, brings a woman into a senior government job and tightens Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s grip on power. In a reshuffle announced late on Monday, the military chief of staff, air defense and land forces heads and...

World

U.N. Security Council mulls Saudi praise for Yemen aid pledge

February 16th, 20180 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council is considering a British proposal to praise Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for pledging nearly $1 billion to ease Yemen’s humanitarian crisis, even as U.N. experts accuse a Saudi-led military coalition of using “the threat of starvation as an instrument of war” in...

World

Saudi Arabia building world’s tallest tower

February 9th, 20180 JEDDAH — Construction of the world's tallest skyscraper in Jeddah is going ahead, the head of the consortium behind the $1.5 billion project said, despite the detention of some businessmen backing the plan in Saudi Arabia's crackdown on corruption. His comments were a sign that the government is trying to prevent the purge from...

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