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Saudi authorities suspend flights to Jeddah

SANAA, Dec. 14 (YPA) - Saudi authorities on Monday suspended flights to Jeddah following an explosion that rocked the city. Saudi media quoted shipping sources in the kingdom as saying that flights to King Abdulaziz International…

Settlers burn 400 olive trees south of Hebron

SANAA, Dec. 14 (YPA) - Settlers set fire to open Palestinian land in the south of the West Bank on Sunday evening, which led to the burning of about 400 olive trees. According to the Palestinian Information Center, the coordinator of the…

Gunman killed in party in front of New York Cathedral

SANAA, Dec. 14 (YPA) - A gunman opened fire on an open-air concert on the stairs of St. John's Cathedral in the Manhattan district of New York City, on Sunday evening. The shooting came during a scheduled free Christmas carols parade on the…

Explosion targets oil tanker in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

SANAA, Dec. 14 (YPA) - A powerful explosion rocked an oil port in the coastal city of Jeddah amid Saudi secrecy over the incident. An oil tanker off Saudi Arabia's port city of Jiddah suffered an explosion early Monday after being hit by…

Israeli murderers, criminals flee to UAE

SANAA, Dec. 14 (YPA) - Dozens of criminals involved in murder, drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering and fraud fled from Israel to the UAE, recently, prior to the issuance of police arrest warrants against them, and began to launch…

Eswatini Prime Minister dies of “Corona”

SANAA, Dec. 14 (YPA) - The government of the Kingdom of Eswatini, (formerly Swaziland), announced on Sunday evening that Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini had passed away at the age of 52. The government of the Kingdom of Eswatini confirmed…

Earthquake hits southern Fiji Islands

SANAA, Dec. 14 (YPA) - An earthquake measuring 5.6 degrees on the Richter scale hit early Monday in southern Fiji. The US Geological Survey said that the earthquake occurred at exactly “01:57:10” GMT. The authority indicated that the…

Iran summons French envoy over France statement

SANAA, Dce. 14 (YPA) - Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the French ambassador in Tehran Philippe Thiébaud on Sunday to protest at anti-Iran statement of France, IRNA reported. The director-general of the Foreign Ministry’s…

Gunmen attack school, kidnap students in Nigeria

SANAA, Dec. 13 (YPA) - Hundreds of students have been missing ever since bandits, armed with assault rifles, attacked a secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern Katsina state late on Friday, Reuters reported. The gunmen stormed the…