A senior official at Indonesia's Ministry of Religious Affairs said here on Friday that the number of Indonesian pilgrims killed in the hajj stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia last week has reached 91 as efforts to search the missing nationals related to the stampede are still underway at the moment.
Saudi authorities said the total number of pilgrims killed in the stampede Thursday in Mecca has risen to 717.
Saudi authorities said a stampede Thursday in Mecca has killed 220 pilgrims and injured 450 others.
Warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemeni Shiite Houthi rebels mistakenly hit a residential quarter in Yemen's city of Taiz overnight and killed 29 civilians, officials said on Friday, while indiscriminate clashes between Yemeni warring parties there killed 23 other civilians.
Deadly battles broke out on Sunday between the Shiite Houthi group and Gulf-backed fighters in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, in which 45 people were killed and about 170 others wounded, health officials said, two days after the exiled government announced "liberation" of the city.
Saudi-led coalition forces intensified air bombings against several military bases and destroyed arms depots in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Tuesday, hours before a planned five-day humanitarian truce comes into force.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham on Sunday condemned Saudi-led attack on Yemen as "genocide", according to Iran's Foreign Ministry's website.
Up to 18 civilians were killed and 47 others wounded when warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition forces mistakenly hit a populated neighborhood in Yemen' s southern port city of Aden on Monday, a government official told Xinhua.
Saudi Defence Ministry announced Tuesday the end of the Decisive Storm operation against Houthis launched since March 26, and the commencement of the Return of Hope operation, Al Arabiya news reported.
Days of Saudi-backed airstrikes against Yemen's Shiite Houthi group has seen accumulated chaos and bloodshed as more countries have moved to evacuate their nationals from the crisis-engulfed Middle East nation.
The Yemeni foreign minister said Thursday that the legitimate leadership of Yemen seeks a peaceful national dialogue after settlement of the situation in the conflict-stricken country, Egyptian official news agency reported.
The Saudi-led coalition forces launched a fresh air strike against a Houthi-controlled air base in Yemen's southern province of Taiz on Thursday night, a government official told Xinhua.
Warplanes raided military camps belonging to the Shiite Houthi group in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Thursday, a defense ministry official told Xinhua.
The tense relations between Egypt and Qatar have been escalating regardless of reconciliatory efforts led by late Saudi King Abdullah and amid uncertain position of his successor King Salman.
Everybody seems to be in a mad rush to have their names registered with the relevant authorities to try and secure jobs in Saudi Arabia.
Stock indices from Kuwait to Oman retreated on Wednesday following a gloomy outlook for the Eurozone and new political stalemate in the United States following Congressional mid-term elections.
A Saudi Interior Ministry official has ruled out blocking access to the Internet as a means to deal with online content deemed hostile to the country, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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