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SANAA, Feb. 15 (YPA) - A Saudi court has sentenced a writer, Mohammed al-Hudhaif, who has been detained since March 2016, to nine years in prison, the Prisoners of Conscience (POC) said on Twitter. The POC said that Al-Hudhaif was accused…

SANAA, Feb.16 (YPA) -A rocket attack in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil on Monday killed a civilian contractor with the American-led military coalition and wounded six others, including a US service member, said a US-led coalition…

SANAA, Feb. 16 (YPA) - French lawmakers on Tuesday to vote  in a first reading on a controversial anti-secessionist bill, which critics say is aimed at Muslims, not the enemies of the republic. The National Assembly is scheduled to…

SANAA, Feb. 16 (YPA) - The Israeli occupation army carried out a large-scale arrest campaign in the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, at dawn Tuesday. News agencies reported that Israeli forces arrested a…

SANAA, Feb. 16 (YPA) - At least four people were killed on Monday in a helicopter crash in the US Virgin Islands, ABC TV reported. According to the channel, the local emergency service received a report at about 14:15 local time regarding a…

SANAA, Feb. 16 (YPA) -  A man and a child were killed and three women were injured as a result of the explosion of a mine remnants of the Takfiri groups in the southern countryside of Aleppo in Syria. SANA reported that a mine exploded on…

SANAA, Feb. 16 (YPA) - A strong earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale hit early on Tuesday, west of Port Vila, capital of the Vanuatu Islands. According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake struck at a depth of 10 km. The…

SANAA, Feb. 16 (YPA) -  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday called on Japan to release Iranian assets frozen in Tokyo due to US sanctions. In his statement to the Japanese "Kyodo" news agency, Zarif expressed his hope…

MECCA, Feb. 15 (YPA) - Saudi authorities arrested on Monday the well-known preacher, Aisha Al-Muhajiri, after raiding her home in Mecca city. The account of prisoners of conscience on Twitter stated that the preacher Al-Muhajiri, 65, was…

SANAA, Feb. 15 (YPA) - The Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn on Monday, 13 Palestinian citizens of the occupied West Bank. "Ma'an" agency reported that the occupation forces arrested four young men from their families' homes in…