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Saudi-led strikes kill at least 54 Yemenis – Houthi-run agency

Strikes by Saudi-led coalition aircraft killed at least 54 people in attacks across Yemen on Tuesday, including four children, the Houthi-run Sabanews.net news agency...

Militants in Sinai kill entire family of 5, say Egypt officials

Egyptian officials say militants in the restive northern Sinai have shelled a home near a security checkpoint, killing an entire family of five and...

Saudi tells UK it 'won't be lectured to' on human rights

Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Britain criticised Monday the breaching of "mutual respect" between the two countries, adding that the Gulf kingdom "will not be...

7 Saudi Arabia supercomputers in Top 500 list

Seven supercomputers from Saudi Arabia are on the latest list of the world’s 500 most powerful machines. Three of them — Makman, Faris and Makman-2...

New Saudi-Iran crisis threatens wider escalation

The last time Saudi Arabia broke off ties with Iran, after its embassy in Tehran was stormed by protesters in 1988, it took a...

WHO announces Ebola milestone as Guinea outbreak ends

The UN's health agency on Tuesday declared Guinea's Ebola outbreak over two years after it emerged, spreading death across west Africa and pushing the...

Qatari exec meets investigators in FIFA bribery case

BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, a Qatari soccer and television executive, was questioned Wednesday by Swiss investigators who say he...

5 tonnes of drugs seized at Beirut airport

Lebanese customs seized five tonnes of Captagon amphetamine pills and hashish at Beirut airport on Tuesday, concealed in primary school desks that were to...

Fire hits UAE residential tower, no casualties reported

A major fire broke out in a residential tower at Ajman in the United Arab Emirates late on Monday, the latest in a series...

Qatar forecasts $12.77 billion budget deficit

Energy-rich Qatar has forecast a budget deficit of more than $12 billion in 2016, citing a sharp drop in oil and gas prices, local...

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