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Laptop ban hits Dubai for 1.1m weekend travellers

Dubai International Airport and its flag carrier Emirates began implementing a ban on laptops and tablets on direct flights to the US Saturday, on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. Around 1.1 million people are expected to pass through the world's busiest...

UN rejects Saudi-led coalition call to supervise Yemen port

The United Nations on Monday rejected a call by the Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen for the key port of Hodeidah to be placed under its supervision. The coalition made the appeal following an attack on a boat carrying Somali refugees off the coast...

UN Calls for Inquiry Into Helicopter Attack Off Yemen

By MarEx Saudi coalition asks UN to "supervise" port of Hodeidah The United Nations and the Somali government have called on the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen to investigate a deadly helicopter attack on a Somali refugee boat last week. However, the coalition had a different...

Saudi-led coalition calls for U.N. supervision of Yemen port

A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen called on Sunday for the United Nations to place a strategic port under its supervision after 42 Somalis were killed in an attack on their refugee boat nearby. The refugees had departed from the western port city of Hodeidah...

UN wants probe into refugee boat attack off Yemen

The United Nations called Monday for an inquiry into last week's attack on a boat off Yemen's coast that killed 42 people, mostly Somali refugees. "Many questions remain unanswered on the circumstances of this horrific event," the head of the UN refugee agency, Filippo Grandi,...

Somaliland: three civil society organizations condemn the killing of Somalian and Somaliland refugees in helicopter attack off Yemen coast

  Human Rights Centre, Centre for Policy Analysis and COMPAD, civil society organizations based in Somaliland, demand independent investigation to determine who was behind a deadly attack on a boat near Bab al-Mandeb strait, off the coast of Yemen, where more than 40 civilian people...

31 Somali refugees killed in helicopter attack off Yemen coast

Boat carrying refugees was travelling to Sudan when it was hit by airstrike from Apache helicopter, coastguard says Thirty-one Somali refugees were killed off the coast of Yemen when a helicopter attacked the boat they were travelling in, a coastguard in the Houthi-controlled Hudaydah area...

UN Aid Chief: 20 Million People in 4 Countries Face Starvation, Famine

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations says it needs $4.4 billion by July to prevent famine in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and northeastern Nigeria. U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien, who just returned from field missions to the affected countries, told Security Council members Friday that the...

Somaliland:Expanding naval presence in the Red Sea

By Francis Matthew, Editor at Large UAE and Saudi Arabia are working in the waters between Africa and Asia to counter any possible Iranian threat from north Yemen. The UAE is establishing two naval bases in the Red Sea in Somaliland’s Berbera and Eritrea’s Assab at...

After Iran’s nuclear pact, state firms win most foreign deals

By Yeganeh Torbati, Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Babak Dehghanpisheh | WASHINGTON When world powers agreed in 2015 to lift sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program, the deal's supporters in the United States, Europe and Tehran hoped renewed trade and investment could...