Saudi FM deeply concerned about Iran’s nuclear deal

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

• Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir says Iran’s nuclear deal will provide it with extra money, which he claims Tehran may use to fund quote-nefarious activities. Saudi Arabia has been calling for tough inspections of Iran’s nuclear program and the possibility for resuming sanctions against the country.
   
• International Medical Charity Doctors Without Borders has further revealed Saudi Arabia’s atrocities in Yemen. MSF says Yemenis cannot go to hospitals fearing Saudi jets may bomb them. The group says Saudi bombers have hit over one-hundred medical facilities since the beginning of the onslaught.
   
• At least a dozen people, including eleven students have been killed in a Saudi airstrike in Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta’izz. Several others were injured in the attack. Nearly 75-hundred Yemenis, most of them civilians, have been killed in the Saudi war that began in March 2015.
   
• The UN Children’s Agency is warning that Syrian refugee kids are at risk of freezing to death. This, as heavy snow is forecast in the eastern Balkan states in the next two weeks. UNICEF adds that many of the kids coming from Turkey arrive in Greek coasts in soaked clothes with improper nutrition.
   
• Syria says the recent Daesh massacre in the province of Dayr al-Zawr was a result of continued support the terrorists receive from some regional countries as well as those beyond the region. The Syrian Foreign Ministry says these countries hire foreigners to commit terrorist acts in order to serve their interests.
   
• The United Nations says the Daesh terrorist group is currently holding some 35-hundred Iraqis as slaves. The UN says the victims are mostly women and children from the Izadi minority group. The report adds that the ISIL terrorists are still committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly genocide in territories under their control.
   
• In Bahrain, people have held protests to demand the release of political prisoners including the al-Wefaq movement's leader Sheikh Ali Slaman. The demonstrators took to the streets of the northern village of Abu Saiba. Anti-regime protests have been going on in the Persian Gulf kingdom since mid-February 2011. 
   
• Tunisian authorities have imposed a curfew in the central city of Kasserine following violent clashes between police and protesters there. The police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of angry demonstrators protesting against growing unemployment. Kasserine is among Tunisia's most impoverished regions, with the highest unemployment rate standing at about 30 percent.

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