By Ghada Karmi The Saudi kings have betrayed the unique history and culture of the holy cities entrusted to their care As the week of the Hajj, Islam’s annual pilgrimage to Mecca, draws to a close, the UN has announced the imminent outbreak of a third wave of cholera in Yemen. According to UN estimates,…
A UN report says 370 children out of a total of 552 were killed in 2017 by air attacks carried out by the coalition. A Saudi-led coaltion was responsible for more than half of child deaths and injuries in war-torn Yemen last year according to a new United Nations report exclusively obtained by Al Jazeera. The…
Press Release 21 June 2018 End the conflict and humanitarian disaster in Yemen Citizens International chairman S.M. Mohamed Idris, in a letter to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, appealed to him, as a highly respected world statesman, to initiate action in the United Nations General Assembly to order the parties involved…
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in December 2017 (AFP) Prince Khaled: I have received a large number of emails from within the police and army in support of my call. DUSSELDORF, Germany – A dissident Saudi prince has called on his uncles to depose King Salman and…
Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE stand out in their praise for Trump’s unilateral decision to leave Iran deal The international community – with the exception of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – condemned US President Donald Trump’s announcement that Washington would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. Those who criticised…
A French company is suing the heirs of former Saudi foreign minister, accused of failing to pay a bill for a XXX rated movie film that was shot with his mistress. The late Saud Al Faisal who was Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister for nearly four decades and who died in July 2015, took with him…
For three bewildering days, London is getting a glimpse of what it will feel like to live in post-Brexit, or shrinking, Britain. In scenes similar to Pyongyang or Bishek, the Great Leader’s portrait has appeared on billboards all over the capital. Neo-liberals in the media had been duly primed and groomed to welcome his arrival.…
Government policies are meant to promote the national interest, but the upcoming visit to the UK by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman highlights something quite different: Whitehall’s pursuit of a special relationship that endangers the British public. Prime Minister Theresa May says the visit will “usher in a new era of bilateral relations” with…
US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been described as a “queasy-making mishmash of thought” in Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff’s tell-all book that documents the first nine months of the Trump administration and has drawn legal threats from the White House. Donald Trump has dismissed the book as “full of lies” and “misrepresentations”. But on…
In a rare move, United Nations human rights experts called on Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to end the “repression” of rights activists and release dozens detained since September for peacefully exercising their civil and political rights. More than 60 prominent clerics, writers, journalists, academics and activists are reported to have been detained in a wave…