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Hours after the attack, a second explosion was heard around Aden s Maasheq presidential palace where the cabinet members including Maeen as well as the Saudi ambassador to Yemen, Mohammad Said al-Jaber, had been taken to safety, residents and local media said.
In the airport attack, loud blasts and gunfire were heard shortly after the plane arrived from Riyadh, witnesses said. A local security source said three mortar shells had landed on the airport s hall.
The cabinet gave the death figure on Twitter, citing the interior minister, and said 50 people were wounded. Medecins Sans Frontieres aid group had earlier said 17 people were treated for wounds at its hospital in Aden.
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Dec. 29, 2020
Israel is now at the height of a particularly ambitious effort – to become one of the first countries in the world to vaccinate most of its population against the coronavirus, slowing infection and hopefully stopping the pandemic in its tracks. The current rate of vaccinations, which began last week, will see the immunization of most of the high-risk population by the end of January. If the doses are received on time from Pfizer, most of the population (except for children under 16) may be vaccinated during March 2021.
These optimistic predictions rest on the dizzying rate of vaccinations. On Sunday, some 99,000 Israelis received their first dose, and according to Health Ministry figures, by Monday night, 495,000 people had already gotten their shot. Statements from official discussions over the past few days reveal the desire to reach 150,000 vaccinations or more per day.
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The CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, Adam Boehler, said last week that the United States could increase its development aid to Indonesia by $1-2 billion more. In an interview with Bloomberg, Boehler revealed that the United States is talking to Indonesia about recognizing Israel, but Indonesia denied it was planning on normalizing relations with Israel, but similar denials were made by Sudan, Morocco, Oman and Qatar before establishing ties with Israel.
Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world. About 86 percent of its 267 million residents are Muslims, the vast majority of them Sunni, and it is a senior member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. The organization has 57 member states, which have a total population of over 1.8 billion people. The organization does have any operative authority, and most of its power lies in its reflecting the sentiments of Muslims on contempora
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Al-Hathloul was among a handful of Saudi women who openly called for the right to drive before it was granted in 2018 and for the removal of male guardianship laws that had long stifled women’s freedom of movement and ability to travel abroad.
She has been imprisoned for the past two and a half years, and was convicted of charges including agitating for change, pursuing a foreign agenda and using the internet to harm public order. She has 30 days to appeal the verdict.
Sullivan’s criticism comes as U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law continues to work toward a breakthrough in Israeli-Saudi ties, as Haaretz reported, though the Saudis might prefer to wait for the Biden administration to take power before making any dramatic gestures.