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Automatically translated by Google News from Yemen Post Newspaper
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UNICEF - press release - For Yemeni children, stopping the cycle of malnutrition (Yemen Post Newspaper) - 2013-05-22 Born just over a year apart, sisters Onood and Ohood Nassar Al Hajria may face very different futures. Ohood’s eyes shine and sparkle as she plays with her younger sibling. Slightly unsure, 3-year-old Onood looks up at her older sister for approval. When Onood was just 4 months old, her mother noticed something was wrong: “She had a fever and diarrhea and wasn't like my first daughter,” she says 
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Press Release - John Kerry - Yemen National Unity Day (Yemen Post Newspaper) - 2013-05-22 On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I extend my warmest wishes to the Yemeni people on their 23rd National Unity Day. Yemen has made important strides advancing the country’s democratic transition. Yemenis from all walks of life have come together to chart a new course for their country through their National Dialogue, setting an example for the region of meaningful change through negotiation, inclusion, and reconciliation
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Inflation on the rise (Yemen Post Staff) - 2013-05-21 Yemen Central Bank latest economic data are clearly showing that inflation rates are once again on the rise, threatening the country's timid economic growth and recovery. With indicators pointing to an 11.3% inflation rate for February, an increase of nearly four points in comparison with January 2013 ( Historically, from 2006 until 2013, Yemen inflation rate averaged 11
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The Houthis are spurring on demonstrations in the Yemeni capital (Yemen Post Staff) - 2013-05-21 Under the watchful eyes of the Houthis now organized under the name of Ansarallah, the group's new political denomination, protesters took to the streets of the capital, Sana'a on Monday to denounce US-led military operations across Yemen provinces. The demonstration was prompted by news report stating that yet another drone strike had been authorized in the southern province of al-Baydha against alleged al-Qaeda militants
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Al-Qaeda militants are stroke down in Abyan (Yemen Post Staff) - 2013-05-20 As Yemen stand off against al-Qaeda is increasing in intensity with every new murdered intelligence officer and attack against the state authority, the coalition government is retaliating as brutely as it knows how, aiming to strike fear at the heart of terror militants. Officials confirmed on Monday that two alleged al-Qaeda operatives based in al-Baydha, north of Abyan and south of the capital, Sana'a; had been killed in an authorized American-led drone strike while they were driving near
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Protesters rally for South Yemen independence
(Yemen Online) 2013-05-22 - Retrieved at: 2013-05-22 14:17:00 GMT 
21/5/2013 Thousands gathered in Yemen's main southern city of Aden on Tuesday to call for renewed independence for the south 23 years after it united with the north. Waving the flag of the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and portraits of exiled southern leader Ali Salem al-Baid, the protesters gathered at a square in the Khor Maksar district of Aden, an AFP correspondent reported
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Obama Orders Drone Strikes, Killing of 6 "Suspected Militants" in Yemen
(Yemen Online) 2013-05-22 - Retrieved at: 2013-05-22 14:17:00 GMT 
21/5/2013Just days before President Obama is scheduled to make a major policy speech announcing his legal justification for his use of drones as a means of summary execution, the U.S. has ramped up the remote control war in the Yemeni theater.In a pre-dawn strike Friday night, May 17, drones piloted by U
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Thomas Friedman : Postcard From Yemen
(Yemen Online) 2013-05-09 - Retrieved at: 2013-05-09 14:16:00 GMT 
9/5/2013I am in the Yemen International Hospital in Taiz, the Yemeni city in the central highlands that is suffering from such an acute water shortage that people get to run their taps for only 36 hours every 30 days or so. They have to fill up as much as they can and then rely on water trucks that come through neighborhoods and sell water like a precious commodity
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Yemen: Saving the South from Itself
(Yemen Online) 2013-05-09 - Retrieved at: 2013-05-09 14:16:00 GMT 
9/5/2013Mr. Hassan al-Yafa'ei, head of the secessionist "Hirak" in al-Houtta South of Yemen, spoke with passion and grief about his region. He is filled with indignation over the unfair discrimination of the South. He is completely convinced, however, that the 1986 civil war is a historical incident that will not be repeated
[source: Yemen Online]
Yemen: Migrants Abused, Tortured by Smugglers
(Yemen Online) 2013-05-04 - Retrieved at: 2013-05-03 23:18:00 GMT 
3/5/2013Authorities in Yemen have freed more than one thousand migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia, many suffering from torture and sexual abuse while forcibly held by human smugglers, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has treated the migrants, said today
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Moratorium still blocks Yemen transfers, White House
(Yemen Online) 2013-05-04 - Retrieved at: 2013-05-03 23:18:00 GMT 
4/5/2013WASHINGTON -- The White House said Wednesday that despite President Barack Obama’s pledge to do what he can to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, a moratorium on sending cleared detainees back to Yemen “remains in place” – a policy that, if unchanged, provides perhaps the biggest obstacle to shuttering the controversial island prison
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Yemen human rights minister in Washington to talk about Guantanamo detainees
(Yemen Online) 2013-05-04 - Retrieved at: 2013-05-03 23:18:00 GMT 
4/5/2013 With a weeks-long hunger strike focusing new attention on conditions at the United States’ controversial detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the minister of human rights for Yemen is due in Washington on Friday for talks she hopes will lead to the repatriation of at least some of the scores of Yemenis held at the island prison
[source: Yemen Online]
Yemen: Aden University and NCHRDD form a committee to announce Aden Forum for Development
(Yemen Online) 2013-05-04 - Retrieved at: 2013-05-03 23:18:00 GMT 
4/5/2013President of Aden University Dr. Abdul Aziz Bin Habtor held a meeting last Thursday with Jamal Al-Awadhi the head of the National Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development NCHRDD and other activists in southern movement, journalists and political leaders represent the Islamic party Islah, independents and General people congress GPC
[source: Yemen Online]
Rising US drone strikes against al-Qaida in Yemen start to fuel anger over civilian deaths
(Yemen Online) 2013-05-04 - Retrieved at: 2013-05-03 23:18:00 GMT 
3/5/2013The cleric preached in his tiny Yemeni village about the evils of al-Qaida, warning residents to stay away from the group's fighters and their hard-line ideology. The talk worried residents, who feared it would bring retaliation from the militants, and even the cleric's father wanted him to stop
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Yemen : Al Qaeda Dies Hard
(Yemen Online) 2013-05-04 - Retrieved at: 2013-05-03 23:18:00 GMT 
4/5/2913The American UAV campaign against al Qaeda in Yemen is crippling the terrorist organization there. The UAVs are a much more effective way to find and attack terrorists hiding out in rural areas among pro-terrorist tribesmen. Going in with ground troops is much bloodier, especially in terms of civilian casualties
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