19 Nov 2020; MEMO: Yemen' Houthi group yesterday denied a report published by Reuters claiming that Saudi Arabia had informed the group that it would sign a UN proposal for a nationwide ceasefire in return for creating a buffer zone along the kingdom's borders.
19 Nov 2020; MEMO: A classified Emirati report has revealed that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates that the future of the partnership with Saudi Arabia in Yemen is at stake and warned that: "A conflict of interests might create a hostile environment for the two parties."
19 Nov 2020; MEMO: An Israeli Jewish organisation has sent a letter to UAE Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Zayed calling on him to recognise the Jewish right to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Quds Press reported yesterday.
The letter, which was published by the Hebrew news website Makor Rishon, was signed by a number of Jewish groups, including the Middle East Forum – Israel.
19 Nov 2020; MEMO: Saudi Arabia, the first Arab country to host the G20 summit this weekend, is facing criticism over its human rights record despite reforms introduced in recent years to improve the conservative monarchy's image.
Human rights activists and relatives of imprisoned activists have urged world leaders to boycott the summit or pressure the kingdom's rulers to release prisoners of conscience, Al-Khaleej Today reported.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia’s military accused World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday of supporting and trying to procure arms and diplomatic support for Tigray state’s dominant political party, which is fighting federal troops.
“This man is a member of that group and he has been doing everything to support them,” army chief of staff General Birhanu Jula said in a televised statement.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia’s government on Thursday said rebels have committed “serious crimes” after conflict broke out this month in the northern Tigray region, as U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy adviser called for greater protection of civilians.
The conflict has killed hundreds, sent 30,000 refugees into neighbouring Sudan, and called into question whether Africa’s youngest leader Abiy Ahmed can hold together the fractious ethnic groups in Africa’s second most populous nation ahead of national elections next year.
RAMALLAH, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of Palestinians demonstrated on Wednesday against the upcoming visit of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
During the demonstration in the West Bank city of al-Bireh near Ramallah, participants waved Palestinian flags and held banners in English and Arabic that condemned the visit.
Some of the demonstrators are Palestinians who hold American citizenship.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — This weekend’s summit of leaders from the Group of 20 stands out more for what it is not than for what it is.
Held online this year because of the coronavirus, the gathering of leaders of the world’s preeminent rich and developing nations will not be an opportunity for kings, presidents and prime ministers to conduct the intimate diplomacy of closed-door meetings or pose for memorable photo-ops. Without red carpet arrivals, it will not be an occasion for its Saudi hosts to dazzle the world’s media.
IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Nurses hover over a patient to insert a breathing tube as his condition suddenly deteriorates. ICU beds fill up almost overnight. As one patient dies of the coronavirus and is wheeled out, another is whisked in to take his place. An exhausted doctor leans against a wheelchair for a breather.
BAGHDAD, Nov 18 (NNN-NINA) – A female child was killed and five other civilians were wounded, in a Katyusha rocket barrage, targeting the heavily fortified Green Zone, in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad yesterday.
Several projectiles “landed on Grand festivities Square and surrounding areas, and near the Medical City and Zawra Park,” the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) said in a statement.
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