Saudis in row with UN over “blacklisting”; Egypt sucked into the vortex: Saudi Arabia is reportedly organizing what a United Nations official called a “full-court press” to pressure the UN into fully removing from a black list the Saudi-led coalition operating in Yemen. Riyadh is “threatening to cut Palestinian aid and funds to other U.N. programs,” Reuters reports, adding that, “The United Nations announced on Monday it had removed the coalition from a child rights blacklist — released last week — pending a joint review by the world body and the coalition of cases of child deaths and injuries during the war in Yemen.” Pressure reportedly included suggestions that “clerics in Riyadh [could meet] to issue a fatwa against the U.N., declaring it anti-Muslim, which would mean no contacts of OIC members, no relations, contributions, support, to any U.N. projects, programs,” the wire service reports. Egypt is among the nations that Reuters says complained to UN chief Ban Ki-moon over the blacklisting.