Clashes between rebels and pro-government forces in Yemen and Saudi-led air strikes killed 44 people, medics and local sources said Sunday, as Riyadh pledged to cover a UN humanitarian aid appeal./ The UN says hundreds of people have died and thousands of families fled their homes since the air ...
A Iranian flag flutters in the winds at the Iranian ambassador's residence in Sanaa January 18, 2014./ (Reuters) - Yemen's government has rejected a four-point peace plan for the country that Iran submitted to the United Nations, a spokesman said on Saturday. Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Arab ...
Fighting along Saudi Arabia's border with Yemen has killed a soldier from the kingdom, the Saudi-led coalition spokesman said on Saturday./ The soldier is the seventh to die since coalition aircraft on March 26 began air strikes in Yemen to stop a southern advance by Iran-backed Huthi rebels. ...
Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia continued to escalate Saturday, with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani slamming Saudi-led airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen. "You planted the seeds of hatred in the hearts" of people in the region, said Rouhani at Iran's National Army Day ceremony, ...
Yemeni tribal gunmen of the Popular Resistance Committees loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi on April 16, 2015 in the city of Taez (AFP Photo/Taha Saleh)/ Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi Arabia, which is leading a three-week-old air war against rebel forces in Yemen, on Saturday announced $274 ...
Yemen's government has rejected a four-point peace plan for the country that Iran submitted to the United Nations, a spokesman said on Saturday. Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Arab coalition partners have been bombing Iranian-allied Houthi rebels for three weeks in order to halt advances that could ...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for international action to end the Saudi-led air campaign on Huthi rebels as intense bombing hit Yemen again Friday and Al-Qaeda seized more ground in the chaos./ Columns of smoke rose over an arms depot targeted by warplanes east of the capital Sanaa, ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens to a question during a joint news conference with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo (unseen) at the foreign ministry in Madrid, April 14, 2015./ (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister on Friday submitted a letter to U.N. chief ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister on Friday submitted a letter to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon outlining a four-point peace plan for Yemen, where Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have been targeted for weeks by Saudi-led air strikes. The plan, which Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif ...
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, speaks via video link to his supporters during a rally titled "in solidarity with oppressed Yemen" in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2015. The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group has launched his harshest criticism yet ...
A newspaper hails Saudi Arabia's "brave armed men". Students build a remote-controlled fighter plane as a tribute to warplanes bombing Yemeni rebels. A phone company offers patriotic songs as ringtones./ This is wartime in Saudi Arabia, a tightly controlled Islamic kingdom where almost every ...
President Hasan Rouhani warns the country will harvest the hatred it is sowing in Yemen/ TEHRAN—Iranian President Hasan Rouhani harshly criticized Saudi Arabia Saturday, warning that the Saudi royal family in Riyadh will harvest the hatred it is sowing in Yemen through its airstrike campaign. ...
UNITED NATIONS — Iran’s foreign minister urged U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday to try to end “the senseless aerial attacks” in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition and establish a cease-fire. Javad Zarif said in a letter, obtained by The Associated Press, that airstrikes by the regional ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is harshly criticizing Saudi Arabia, warning that the Saudi royal family in Riyadh will harvest the hatred it is sowing in Yemen through its airstrike campaign. Since March 26, the Saudi-led coalition has been attacking Shiite rebels known as ...
Iran’s foreign minister on Friday submitted a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon outlining a four-point peace plan for Yemen, where Houthi revolutionaries have been targeted for three weeks by Saudi-led air strikes, Reuters reported. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced the ...
Two Australians and an American missing in Baja California/ MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican authorities have located three bodies in the state of Baja California where one American and two Australian tourists were reported missing, according to three sources with knowledge of the investigation. ...
Flooding due to heavy rains in the city of Encantado/ SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The outlook for soy production in one of Brazil's biggest farm states is deteriorating quickly after heavy rains disrupted harvesting with about a quarter of fields left to reap from in Rio Grande do Sul. The situation ...
If you’re on blood pressure or blood sugar-lowering meds, you’ll want to read this./ Ginger is a versatile ingredient that wears many hats—it is a food, a spice, a flavor enhancer and a medicinal ingredient. This rhizome is known for adding a pungent kick and pleasant aroma to both The plant has ...
Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, is shown at a company event in Cupertino/ By Stephen Nellis, Max A. Cherney and Yuvraj Malik (Reuters) - Apple's quarterly results and forecast beat modest expectations on Thursday, as the iPhone maker unveiled a record share buyback program, sending its stock up 6% in ...
Nigeriens demonstrate to protest against the U.S. military presence in Niamey/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting U.S. troops, a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters, a move that follows a decision by Niger's junta to expel U ...
Israeli officials are increasingly concerned that the UN's top criminal court is planning to seek arrest warrants for their military and political leaders on suspicion of war crimes./ Reports suggest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be among them./ The International Criminal Court (ICC) ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A scuba dive boat captain was scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge Thursday on a conviction of criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel nearly five years ago. was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history, and prompted changes ...
- Bitcoin’s tumble is piquing the interest of investors who view pronounced swings in the digital token as a possible precursor for broader changes in risk appetite in global markets./ The cryptocurrency has shed about 4% in the past two days following a near 16% plunge in April, the worst ...
In many southern Lebanese villages, there are no signs of life. People have fled, leaving towns deserted. Israel has been carrying out strikes on southern Lebanon almost daily since Hezbollah - the powerful Lebanese Shia Islamist group - fired rockets at Israel on 8 October in support of Hamas ...
The family of a gay British-Mexican man held in Qatar for alleged drug offences has given further details of what they say was a "honeytrap" operation using the gay dating app, Grindr./ Manuel Guerrero Aviña was approached online by a man called "Gio" and they arranged to meet - but he was ...