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Sanaa President Saleh al-Sammad said on Saturday evening that the roots of sedition had been destroyed, in a clear reference to the forces of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, which retreated significantly and handed over hundreds of its members themselves to the government forces. “I tell you the news of …

Relatives of the 44 crew members of an Argentine submarine that went missing at sea last month have staged a rally to protest what they call the government’s poor response to the tragedy. The protesters marched Sunday from the navy base in the port city of Mar del Plata on …

Axed Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont faces an extradition hearing in Belgium on Monday as Spain seeks to have him sent back to face sedition charges over his region’s independence drive. A judge sitting behind closed doors in Brussels will hear from lawyers for Puigdemont and four of his former …

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected the planned trial by a US court of a Turkish bank executive who has been accused of evading Washington’s sanctions against Iran, saying courts in the United States cannot put Turkey on trial. US courts “can never try my country,” Erdogan told members of …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against a fresh wave of cholera in war-torn Yemen, where a crippling blockade imposed by the Saudi-led military coalition has cut off fuel for medical centers, and vital aid supplies for starving children. Nevio Zagaria, WHO’s acting representative in Yemen sounded the grim …

Around half of the members of the Izadi minority group kidnapped by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group three years ago are still missing, Iraqi Kurdish officials say. Khairi Bozani, a top official with the ministry of religious affairs of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, said some 6,417 Izadis …

An Iraqi commander has rejected calls for the disbanding of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known by their Arabic name as Hashd al-Sha’abi, which have played a major role in pushing out the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group. Ahmad al-Assadi, one of the PMU’s leaders, was quoted by AFP as saying that “any such …

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement says it has fired a cruise missile at a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi. “The missile force announces the launching of a winged cruise missile … towards the al-Barakah nuclear reactor in Abu Dhabi,” the Houthis’ al-Masirah news website reported on Sunday, without providing further details. Yemeni …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against the rising number of diphtheria cases in Yemen amid a dire shortage of vaccine caused by the Saudi-led blockade of the impoverished country. So far, out of 197 registered diphtheria cases in Yemen, 22 patients have died as a result of the …

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has denounced as politically motivated a recent testimony given by Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab in a US court implicating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an alleged Iran sanctions-busting scheme. Speaking in Istanbul on Friday, Yildirim said he hoped Zarrab, a Turkish citizen of Iranian descent, …