An image grab from Iran's Press TV of centrifuges at Iran's Nantanz nuclear site (AFP Photo/-)/ Riyadh (AFP) - Iran is a destabilising force that must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, top US diplomat John Kerry said in Saudi Arabia Thursday, aiming to calm Riyadh's worries./ Saudi Arabia ...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Saudi Arabia and the United States on Thursday announced a five-day, renewable cease-fire in Yemen's war to allow aid to reach millions of civilians caught in a humanitarian crisis from the conflict. But the truce is dependent on Iran-backed rebels and their allies also ...
An Apache helicopter gunship from the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemeni rebels came down in the Saudi border district of Najran (AFP Photo/Alexander Nemenov)/ Riyadh (AFP) - An Apache helicopter gunship from the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemeni rebels made an emergency landing Thursday just ...
Iran's Red Crescent will send a ship carrying 2,500 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Yemen (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran's Red Crescent will send a ship carrying 2,500 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Yemen, official media said Thursday, following weeks of deadly fighting between ...
CAIRO/RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said all options were open including ground operations to stop mortar attacks on its border towns by Yemen's Houthi militia, as its jets hammered the group's positions ahead of U.S.-led talks on a temporary truce. A second night on Wednesday of raids aimed ...
report/ , chief of Iran's Red Crescent Society, Ali-Asghar Ahmadi, said Thursday. A ship with a capacity of 2.5 tonnes capacity is being loaded with food parcels and medicine in Iran's southern Bandar Abbas port city, Ahmadi said. The ship is scheduled to leave Iran's waters Saturday to arrive ...
Yemeni tribal gunmen from the Popular Resistance Committees loyal to fugitive President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi gather on a street in the southern city of Taez during ongoing clashes with Shiite Huthi rebels on May 6, 2015 (AFP Photo/Abdel Rahman Abdallah)/ United Nations (United States) (AFP) - ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Yemen's ambassador to the United Nations is asking the international community to quickly intervene with ground forces to save the country from Houthi rebels who have been targeted by Saudi-led airstrikes for weeks./ A letter sent Wednesday to the president of the U.N. ...
Hungry for defence deals, France has cosied up to the Gulf monarchies, winning several billion-euro contracts in the process, but its strategy of backing one side in the region's Sunni-Shia power struggle is risky, say experts./ These are boom times for France's defence industry, with the ...
torn Yemen arrive in Djibouti after crossing the Gulf of Aden to flee the conflict on April 14, 2015 (AFP Photo/Tony Karumba)/ Aden (AFP) - At least 32 civilians were killed and 67 wounded Wednesday in shelling that hit people trying to escape fighting in Yemen's southern city of Aden by sea, a ...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday accused the United States of supporting "immense crimes" in Yemen by Saudi Arabia, which is leading an air war against Tehran-backed rebels./ "The Saudi government is killing innocent people, women and children in Yemen ... and Americans ...
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday he will discuss with Riyadh a "humanitarian pause" in Saudi-led military operations in Yemen to help aid efforts./ Riyadh has said it is considering temporary halts in bombing raids to allow aid deliveries into neighbouring Yemen, where a Saudi-led ...
DJIBOUTI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he hopes to secure a pause in Yemen's war as he prepared for talks in Saudi Arabia Wednesday, citing increased shortages of food, fuel and medicine that are adding to a crisis that already has neighboring countries bracing for a mass exodus ...
Yemen on May 6 urged the UN Security Council "to quickly intervene by land forces to save" the country, specifically in the cities of Aden and Taiz. The letter from Yemen's UN Ambassador Khaled Alyemany might foreshadow a widening of the Yemeni conflict into a land war between proxies of Saudi ...
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition struck Yemeni provinces near the Saudi border overnight, killing at least 43 civilians, Houthi sources said, as aid agencies warned that fuel shortages could halt their efforts to tackle Yemen's humanitarian crisis. Houthi fighters fired mortar bombs and ...
Picture shows a Saudi artillery unit close to the Saudi-Yemeni border, in southwestern Saudi Arabia, on April 13, 2015 (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)/ Riyadh (AFP) - Three people were killed in a cross-border mortar bomb and rocket attack by Iran-backed Yemen rebels on a city in southern Saudi ...
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, then head of the UN Mission for the fight against Ebola, speaks to the press, on January 7, 2015, in Monrovia (AFP Photo/Zoom Dosso)/ United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The UN envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, will travel to Paris later Tuesday on his way ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — French President Francois Hollande vowed to defend Gulf Arab allies as he announced Tuesday that his country is in talks with Saudi Arabia for business deals worth tens of billions of euros (dollars)./ Hollande made the remarks after a ceremonial meeting in Saudi ...
An image grab taken from Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite television shows Yemen's exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi giving a televised speech from the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on April 21, 2015 (AFP Photo/)/ Riyadh (AFP) - Yemen's exiled president wants talks between his country's rival ...
Bombs fired from territory held by Yemen's Houthi militia into a Saudi Arabian border town killed five people on Wednesday, Saudi officials said, as the Iran-allied group stepped up an apparent retaliation for weeks of airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition. Mortar shells and rockets fired into the ...
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbours fear Tehran might be able to develop an atomic bomb despite an international accord being drafted which aims to prevent that./ RIYADH: Iran is a destabilising force that must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, top US diplomat might be able to develop an ...
At least 80 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in the Yemeni port of Aden as fighting rages between Houthi fighters and local supporters of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, rescue workers and residents said. The dead included at least 40 Yemeni civilians who were trying to flee ...
The United States is concerned about the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen and will discuss a possible pause in fighting with Saudi officials on Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry said./ "The situation is getting more dire by the day and we are concerned about that and we have urged all ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Djibouti on Wednesday for talks with the government and to visit a key U.S. military base from where pilots fly missions over Yemen and Somalia./ The tiny Horn of Africa nation overlooking the Gulf of Aden has become an important center for Washington's ...
Saudi Arabia's King Salman told Gulf monarchs they must stand up to Iran, as he hosted a regional meeting also attended by French President Francois Hollande. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit came amid mounting international concern about the impact on civilians of Saudi-led air strikes ...
Concern has mounted over the air campaign, which has continued despite the coalition's announcement late last month that it was moving to a new phase./ RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman said Tuesday Gulf leaders must stand up to Iran, as Yemeni rebels backed by Tehran attacked a Saudi border ...
Saudi Arabia's King Salman warned at a summit on Tuesday of a threat from Iran as guest of honour President Francois Hollande said France was "by the side" of Gulf nations. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Riyadh came amid mounting international concern over the Saudi-led air war on ...
A baby rescued from her dying mother's womb after an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC has learned./ Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday./ Amid chaotic scenes doctors resuscitated the baby, using a ...
) — A video of a fight between a student and a substitute teacher at a Las Vegas valley high school was shared on social media Thursday, sources said. A substitute teacher and a student engaged in a fight, which was caught on camera at Valley High School in east Las Vegas. Sources indicated that ...
A brawl involving three people on a busy Los Angeles freeway was captured on video earlier this week and shared with KTLA. The incident occurred around 2 p.m. Tuesday on the 10 Freeway near Normandie Avenue in the Adams-Normandie neighborhood, according to “I was stuck in traffic and came upon a ...
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Los Angeles, Oct. 4 2022. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, File)/ NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned ’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with ...
The CCTV footage shown at the domestic abuse trial was disturbing: The defendant is seen dragging his wife by her hair, and then punching and kicking her. Hours after it was recorded, she died of brain trauma. The trial of businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan's former economy minister, in ...
In interviews with investigators last year, former aides and national security officials who were close to Trump in the White House described a president who could erupt in anger when presented with intelligence he didn't want to hear, who routinely reviewed and stored classified information in ...
Bettersten Wade speaks to the attendees of her son Dexter Wade's funeral service in Jackson, Miss. Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Looking on are the Rev. Al Sharpton, right, who delivered the eulogy, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, background, and one of her son's daughters, Jaselyn Thomas. Bettersten ...
A mother will search anywhere for her missing child. And while she has the strength, she will never stop./ For four days Kareema Elras has moved through the noise, dust and overpowering stench of the mass graves at Nasser hospital./ She is the mother of 21-year-old Ahmed, who was killed on 25 ...
This undated photo provided by University of Wisconsin Marketing & Communications, shows UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Interim Chancellor Betsy Morgan has started the process in late March 2024, to strip Gow, the former chancellor who was fired over his ...
Satellite images show two new tent encampments in southern Gaza as reports suggest Israel's military is preparing for an offensive in the city of Rafah./ Rafah, by the border with Egypt, is the only city in Gaza it has not yet entered. Well over a million people have been sheltering there for ...