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Yemen's warring sides meet over flashpoint port city

Yemen's warring sides have met for the first time in five months to discuss redeployment of forces from the flashpoint port city of Hodeida. Wadah Dabish, a spokesman for the forces loyal to the internationally recognized government, says the meeting took place late Sunday abroad a U.N....

Kuwait moves to protect its ports amid Gulf tensions

Kuwait’s navy and ports authority will prepare security plans to protect the key OPEC exporter’s ports, state news agency KUNA said on Saturday, amid heightened tensions between Iran and the West. A joint cooperation protocol was signed “at an important period which the region is...

'Riyadh making world accomplice to murder'

Saudi Arabia is making the world complicit in a miscarriage of justice in the case of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings said Tuesday.  In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post, Agnes Callamard said Riyadh violated...