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The Houthi rebels in Yemen have again fired a rocket on Saudi Arabia. The Saudis intercepted the projectile, an army spokesman said.

Women are allowed to go to a football match in Saudi Arabia for the first time on Friday. They can watch the match played in Djedda between the clubs al-Ahli and al-Batin, the authorities in the capital Riyadh have announced on Monday. Later this month, women can also attend Eredivisie matches in Riyadh and Dammam.

The party of Ali Abdullah Saleh, former president of Yemen, has appointed a successor. On Sunday, the party announced that Sadeq Amin Abou Rass was following the party leader who had been killed last month. Abou Rass was formerly minister of agriculture.

Saudi Arabia once again said that it had intercepted a ballistic missile. The missile had been fired at the city of Najran by the Yemeni Houthi rebels, an army spokesman told news channel al-Arabiya. A television channel controlled by the Houthi \u0026 # x27; s reported that an army base was the target of the missile.

Shiite Houthi rebels have shot a rocket from Yemen on the Saudi capital Riyadh. The Saudi air defense would have knocked down the projectile.

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The great danger of terrorism is not only that the innocent die, but also the destruction of the reputation of Islam as a religion. That is what the Saudi Crown Prince Salman said on Sunday in Riyadh, the capital of his country.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Saudi Arabia a few days ago to not enforce Yemen's blockade so strictly.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has announced via Twitter that he is 'on his way to the airport' in Saudi Arabia.

The humanitarian situation in Yemen is rapidly deteriorating due to the border restrictions that have been set. Because of these blockades, hardly any more fuel comes into the country. In many parts of Yemen, water purification works due to the lack of diesel that the generators must power. About one million people do not have access to clean water and another cholera epidemic threatens, according to the Red Cross.

If the Saudi Arabia-led coalition does not allow humanitarian aid in Yemen, this leads to 'the biggest famine that has seen the world for several decades with millions of victims.' This said United Nations emergency relief coordinator Mark Lowcock on Wednesday.

The missiles that have been fired from Yemen in Saudi Arabia recently were a response to the aggression of Riyadh. That said Iranian President Hassan Rohani on Wednesday. Iran is accused of delivering the missiles that the Houthi rebels flee to Yemen on the neighboring country.

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Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has shown himself in unusually clear language advocate of liberalization of the ultraconservative kingdom. 'We are returning to moderate Islam, which is open to the world and all religions,' he said Tuesday at a conference in Riyadh. There he was addressed to the radical ideas that still prevail in the country.

Saudi Arabia has dismantled a cell of terrorist organization in Riyadh, Islamic State.

Saudi security forces have ruled a terrorist attack on the Ministry of Defense in Riyadh. Two men were arrested while they were on their way with explosion girders, hand grenades, firearms and knives to buildings in which the Ministry's offices were located, according to the Ministry of Interior.

Iran and Saudi Arabia will soon exchange diplomats, Tehran reported Wednesday. The step indicates a possible defrost in relations between regional rivals since the diplomatic ties were broken last year.

The woman in conservative Saudi Arabia appeared in a video in a mini-skirt and a navy window was arrested. This is what state television broadcaster Ekhbariya reports on Tuesday. On the images that appeared on Snapchat last weekend, the woman walks around in a historic fortress. The video has been shared on social media countless times, and has woken up a lot of dust in the country.

A video of a young woman wearing a miniskirt and navel sprout in public has led to a heated debate in conservative Saudi Arabia. Some Saudi people demand that the woman, a model called 'Khulood', be arrested. Others praise the woman because of her lips.

The Egyptian parliament agreed with the transfer of two uninhabited islands in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has to put his signature under the decision.

Iran has sent four freightplanes with fruits and vegetables to Qatar to prevent deficiencies in the oil state. A spokesman for Iranian airline Iran Air said this week against FARS press office that Iran wants to send 100,000kg of food to Qatar every day.

US President Donald Trump accused Qatar of financing terrorism at a very high level on Friday. 'That would have been going on for a long time now and must stop.

US President Donald Trump believes that the isolation of Qatar by a number of Arab countries is due to his visit to the king of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh. 'So good to see that it is starting to pay off. They said a hard line would follow against the financing of terrorism, and any reference went towards Qatar. Perhaps this is the beginning of the end of the terrible terror, 'twittered Trump Tuesday.

The world's richest country has been hamstring. Qatar is fearing food shortages now declared to be paralyzed by much of the Arab world because of its ties with muslim extremists. The confrontation between the allies of the West may have far-reaching consequences for the struggle against Islamic state, the war in Syria and even the World Cup in 2022.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the highest spiritual leader in Iran, labeled members of the royal family of Saudi Arabia as 'mafkezen' and 'dairy cows for the Americans' on Saturday. 'Those idiots believe they can acquire friendship with an opponent of Islam,' he said, according to the national press agency Fars.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on television on Monday that Tehran continues his rocket program. He tore Donald Trump along. The US president ventured into Saudi Arabia strongly criticized the Islamic Republic of Iran and repeated that in Israel.

US President Donald Trump has arrived in Israel. The Presidential Air Force One landed Monday at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. It is known for the first direct flight in the history of the Saudi capital Riyadh to Israel.

Iran has reacted sarcastically to fierce criticism of US President Donald Trump, who claimed that the government in Tehran is co-responsible for the instability in the Middle East. The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif drove Twitter on the fact that Trump made such statements in Saudi Arabia.