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Saudi air strikes to 'neutralise' Yemen rebels

AFP Global Edition yesterday

Saudi Arabia said on Friday that it had launched air strikes against Yemeni rebels to "neutralise" infiltrators who had crossed the frontier and killed a Saudi border guard. The air strikes from southern Jizan province were to "neutralise the firing by intruders" ...

Saudi air strikes on Yemen rebel infiltrators

AFP Global Edition yesterday

Saudi Arabia said on Friday that it had launched air strikes against Yemeni rebels to "neutralise" infiltrators who had crossed the frontier and killed a Saudi border guard. The air strikes from southern Jizan province were to "neutralise the firing by intruders" ...

Saudis launches offensive against Yemen rebels

AP News 2 days ago

Saudi Arabia launches large military offensive against Yemen Shiite rebels Saudi Arabia sent fighter jets and artillery bombardments across the border into northern Yemen Thursday in a military incursion apparently aimed at helping its troubled southern neighbor control an escalating Shiite rebellion, ...

Under a Saudi road, migrant workers live in limbo

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

Larita Delacruz sits on the concrete base of a bridge pylon, rubs her swollen belly and explains her predicament: she is five months pregnant with twins, and wants to go home to give birth. But after four years of working as a ...

Yemen rebels kill Saudi in cross-border raid

Reuters US Online Report World News 3 days ago

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday a security officer was killed and 11 others wounded in an attack by unidentified gunmen in an area near the Yemeni border, which Yemeni rebels said they had seized in a cross-border raid. The ...

Yemen rebels say they seize Saudi border site

Reuters US Online Report World News 3 days ago

DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemeni Shi'ite Muslim rebels said they had seized mountainous territory inside Saudi Arabia, and Saudi authorities said on Wednesday a security officer had been killed by gunmen crossing from Yemen. Saudi Arabia said the attack took place on Tuesday ...

Millions worldwide would like to switch countries: study

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

Some 700 million people worldwide, or more than all the adults of North and South America combined, think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and want to permanently move to another country, a poll showed Tuesday. Residents ...

Saudi 'to behead, display body of rapist'

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

A Saudi court has ratified the beheading of a young man who raped five children, among them a three-year-old boy left to die in the desert, a newspaper reported on Monday. An appeal court in Riyadh approved the death sentence handed down ...

Israel wants Arab 'Marshall Plan' to help Palestinians

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

A top Israeli official urged Arab states on Tuesday to create a 10 billion dollar "Marshall Plan" to boost the Palestinian economy and support Middle East peace talks. "The Arab countries could do much more. First and foremost is Saudi Arabia," Deputy ...

Saudis to begin mass flu vaccinations as hajj nears

AFP Global Edition 5 days ago

Saudi Arabia said Monday it is to vaccinate all its residents attending the hajj against swine flu, pressing ahead with plans to host millions of the world's Muslims despite a heightened pandemic alert. The kingdom has received the first tranche of 11 ...

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