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Exiled rights activist accuses Bahrain of persecuting kin

Sayed Ahmed AlWadaei, a prominent Bahraini rights campaigner exiled in Britain, said Saturday a Bahraini court had sentenced his wife to two months in jail in absentia this week and that his mother-in-law had begun a hunger strike in jail. AlWadaei, director of the Bahrain Institute for...

Air strike kills 10 civilians in Yemen: residents, medics

An air strike by the Arab-led coalition fighting in Yemen killed ten civilians, including women and children, in the northern province of Saada Thursday, residents and medics said. Saudi Arabia's military alliance intervened in Yemen's war in 2015 against Iran-aligned Houthis who had...