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Qatar in talks to buy Russia's S-400 systems - Tass

Qatar is in talks with Moscow to buy Russian S-400 missile air defence systems, Tass state news agency quoted the Qatari ambassador to Russia on Thursday as saying. Qatar is engaged in a deepening diplomatic row with some of its Gulf Arab neighbours, including Saudi Arabia and the...

Saudi-led air strike kills seven Yemenis: residents

Saudi-led coalition aircraft on Monday struck a building in northern Yemen that housed a clinic, killing seven people, five of them children, residents said, the latest in a series of raids that have drawn international condemnation. A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition had no...

Saudi to build 9 desalination plants on Red Sea

Saudi Arabia plans to build nine desalination plants for more than 2 billion riyals ($530 million) on the Red Sea coast, its environment minister said Sunday. The plants will have capacity of 240,000 cubic meters of water per day and will be completed in less than 18 months, Abdulrahman...

More than 32,000 Yemenis displaced in two months: UN

Intensified hostilities in Yemen have forced more than 32,000 people to flee their homes in the past two months, the United Nations refugee agency has said. They join some two million Yemenis already displaced by the war, the UNHCR said in a statement on Thursday. "The arrival...