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US: Iran still top state terror sponsor; global attacks down

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

UN: Yemen unlikely to get cholera vaccine as first planned

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Hanadi Al-Haj, right, greets her Yemeni mother Amal Bagoon in the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport as her mother arrives from Jordan via Istanbul, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Los Angeles. A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban took effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

The Latest: US adds fiancés to travel ban exemptions

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FILE -- In this Jun. 9, 2017 file photo, people stand on the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen. More than two years of civil war have led to continually compounding disasters in Yemen. Fighting rages on in a deadly stalemate, the economy has been bombed into ruins, hunger is widespread, and a new misery has been added: Cholera, the world’s biggest current outbreak with more than 200,000 cases. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

From destruction to cholera, Yemen war brings disasters

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Yemeni businessman Ali Awad Habib recounts the torment he suffered in prison, where he said he was beaten with wires and wooden clubs and given electrical shocks, in this May 8, 2017 phot in Aden, Yemen. Habib was detained for weeks after Emirati-backed forces hunting for al-Qaida members raided his family’s businesses, arresting him and several of his relatives. Habib’s father, like an unknown number of other detainees, has been sent to a base of the United Arab Emirates across the Red Sea in Eritrea. (AP Photo/Maad El Zikry)

Inside Yemen’s secret prisons: ‘We could hear the screams’

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

A former detainee shows how he was kept in handcuffs and leg shackles while held in a secret prison at Riyan airport in the Yemeni city of Mukalla in this May 11, 2017 photo. He covered his face for fear of being detained again. He and other former detainees say abuses are widespread in a network of secret prisons run by the United Arab Emirates and its Yemeni allies, into which hundreds detained in the hunt for al-Qaida militants have disappeared. (AP Photo/Maad El Zikry)

In Yemen’s secret prisons, UAE tortures and US interrogates

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 14, 2012 file photo, Prince Mohammed bin Salman waits for Gulf Arab leaders ahead of the opening of Gulf Cooperation Council summit, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Saudi Arabia's King Salman has appointed his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince, removing the country's counterterrorism czar and a figure well-known to Washington from the royal line of succession. In a series of royal decrees issued Wednesday, June 21, 2017 and carried on the state-run Saudi Press Agency, the monarch stripped Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was first in line to the throne, from his title as crown prince and from his post as the country's powerful interior minister overseeing security. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

The Latest: Oman’s sultan congratulates Saudi crown prince

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FILE - In this Monday, May 15, 2017 file photo, people are treated for suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The U.N. health agency and some major partners have agreed on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 to send 1 million doses of cholera vaccine to Yemen to help stanch a spiraling and increasingly deadly caseload in the impoverished country, which is already facing war and the risk of famine. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, file)

War-torn Yemen to get cholera vaccines as death toll mounts

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Saudi Arabian Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a summit of Arab and Latin American leaders in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in this Nov. 11, 2015, file photo. Saudi Arabia's King Salman has appointed his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince, removing the country's counterterrorism czar and a figure well-known to Washington from the royal line of succession. In a series of royal decrees issued Wednesday, June 21, 2017, and carried on the state-run Saudi Press Agency, the monarch stripped Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was first in line to the throne, from his title as crown prince and from his post as the country's powerful interior minister overseeing security. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Mohammed bin Salman named as Saudi king’s crown prince

By Abdullah Al-Shihri and Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

Saudi Arabian Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a summit of Arab and Latin American leaders in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in this Nov. 11, 2015, file photo. Saudi Arabia's King Salman has appointed his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince, removing the country's counterterrorism czar and a figure well-known to Washington from the royal line of succession. In a series of royal decrees issued Wednesday, June 21, 2017, and carried on the state-run Saudi Press Agency, the monarch stripped Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was first in line to the throne, from his title as crown prince and from his post as the country's powerful interior minister overseeing security. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Saudi king names son heir as new generation encircles throne

By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI and AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the United Nations, the United Nations Security Council holds a meeting on the situation in the Middle East, Thursday, June 15, 2017 at United Nations Headquarters. (Kim Haughton/The United Nations via AP) ** FILE **

UN urges Yemen cease-fire and open ports to confront cholera

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Life proceeded as normal in Doha, Qatar, on Monday even as Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries severed ties, accusing the nation of supporting terrorist groups. (Associated Press)

Arab neighbors isolate Qatar over terror ties

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

UN: 3,000 to 5,000 suspected new Yemen cholera cases daily

By Samuel McNeil - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Monday, May 15, 2017 file photo, people are treated for suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. Jamie McGoldrick, the U.N. humanitarian chief in Yemen, told The Associated Press on Tuesday, May 30, 2017, that treatable diseases like cholera could ravage Yemen this year without an increase in aid and an end to the two-year-old civil war. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UN aid chief in Yemen warns of cholera rise without more aid

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The Latest: Trump to take travel ban to Supreme Court

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Clashes between US troops, al-Qaida militants in Yemen

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

US raid kills 7 al-Qaida militants in Yemen

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman during a bilateral meeting, Saturday, May 20, 2017, in Riyadh. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Human rights concerns prove no obstacle in Trump-Saudi ties

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Saudi Arabia retaliates for rocket attack by Houthis

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press