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Concern over armed presence in Taiz
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2012-02-02
TAIZ, Feb. 1 — People in Taiz have become concerned since armed figures started appearing in the city over the last couple days. Some roads were also closed during this time.
Mohammed Sa'eed, a shopkeeper, speaking with the Yemen Times, said, “We had started feeling everything was returning to normal 
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American drone strikes provoke Yemenis against interim government
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2012-02-02
ABYAN, Feb. 1 — Many Yemenis, and especially those in Abyan governorate, are blaming the new government for a loss of sovereignty after a US drone strike killed 11 Al-Qaeda members on Yemeni soil on Monday.
The drones fired four missles; two exploded and the remaining two are still 'active' and “may explode at any time,” eyewitnesses – who have been present for such strikes in the past - told the Yemen Times
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Training course for English teachers in rural areas
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2012-02-02
SANA’A, Feb. 1 — A three-day training session for 100 English teachers in rural areas concluded its activities on Monday in Sana’a. Speaking about future plans for the nation, Yemen's Deputy Minister of Education said, “The ministry will be in need of 12,000 new English teachers nationwide.”
During the three-day session, teachers worked on writing and reading teaching skills in order to improve their ability to help students acquire the English language
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Insecurity profile in Aden during January
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2012-02-02
ADEN, Feb, 1 — An unidentified armed group of men intercepted the Saudi Deputy Consul in Aden, Abdullah Al-Khaledi, as he traveled home from work on Monday.
The men forced the Saudi diplomat to exit his vehicle while on his way to his home in Aden's Al-Mansoura city. The men, armed with assault rifles and machine guns, confiscated the diplomat's car and some personal belongings
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Yemen postpones new weekend
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2012-02-02
SANA’A, Jan. 29 – The new Friday-Saturday weekend, scheduled to begin in February, has been delayed until March, according to the Minister of Civil Service and Insurance.
“It has been delayed but is expected to be in place in March,” state-run Al-Jumhorya newspaper quoted Nabil Shamsan as saying on Wednesday
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Fears grow over Yemenis' ties to Iran
(Yemen Online)
2013-06-20 -
Retrieved at: 2013-06-19 23:13:00 GMT
20/6/2013Iran is taking advantage of the confusion surrounding Yemen's transition of government to gain a new foothold in the country, Yemeni and Western officials say, as Tehran seeks military allies operating near one of the world's most strategic waterways for oil shipments.
Iran is training militants who are aligned with a separatist movement in southern Yemen, while Iran's Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, is providing some funding and media training to the group, people
[source: Yemen Online]
NGO provides help to find a South African couple abducted in Yemen
(Yemen Online)
2013-06-18 -
Retrieved at: 2013-06-18 20:13:00 GMT
18/6/2013Johannesburg - NGO Gift of the Givers (GOTG) is helping to find a South African couple abducted in Yemen, it said on Tuesday. “Anas al-Hamati, Gift of the Givers Yemen project manager, contacted the Yemeni president's office and the foreign ministry and has been granted full co-operation by these and all government institutions,” GOTG said in a statement
[source: Yemen Online]
Yemen seeks to buy electricity from Ethiopia
(Yemen Online)
2013-06-18 -
Retrieved at: 2013-06-18 20:13:00 GMT
18/6/2013Yemen and Ethiopia discussed here on Monday areas of joint cooperation between, especially in the electricity field and the ways to upgrade it to the level of a true partnership.
This came in a meeting gathered Minister of Electricity and Energy Saleh Sumaia and Ethiopian ambassador to Yemen Hasan Abdullah Ali, who discussed the possibility of Yemen to benefit from the surplus Ethiopia's power at a reasonable price
[source: Yemen Online]
Contention and Confusion in Guantanamo Pre-Trial Hearings for Al-Nashiri Military Commissions
(Yemen Online)
2013-06-18 -
Retrieved at: 2013-06-18 20:13:00 GMT
18/6/2013 The issue of terrorism has been front and center in the national discourse since 9/11. Guantánamo has become a symbol of US hypocrisy on human rights. Lawyers handling the criminal case of Guantánamo prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri argued several pre-trial motions last week
[source: Yemen Online]
Yemen calls to remove Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab from piracy risk list
(Yemen Online)
2013-06-18 -
Retrieved at: 2013-06-18 20:13:00 GMT
18/6/2013 Yemen has called for the removal of the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab strait from the list of the risk of high seas piracy.
The call was made by Chairman of the General Authority for Maritime Affairs, Yasser al-Zamani, during a meeting at the headquarters of the International Maritime Organization here on Monday
[source: Yemen Online]
Yemen to receive 4m loan from Arab Monetary Fund in 2013
(Yemen Online)
2013-06-18 -
Retrieved at: 2013-06-17 23:16:00 GMT
17/6/2013 The Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) will provide a 4 million loan to Yemen this year to help its financial reform program, the fund said on Monday. Pro-democracy protests in 2011 brought Yemen, a U.S. ally and neighbor of top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, to the brink of civil war and dealt a blow to its already dismal economy
[source: Yemen Online]
Yemen must improve kids
(Yemen Online)
2013-06-18 -
Retrieved at: 2013-06-17 23:16:00 GMT
17/6/2013 The UN's children's agency called Monday for Yemen to improve safeguards for kids as it discusses how to draft a new constitution, by for instance ensuring access to clean water and battling child marriages.Yemen is currently engaged in a national dialogue as part of a UN-brokered deal that eased former strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh from power last year after an 11-month uprising against his 33-year rule
[source: Yemen Online]
Yemeni and American Protesters Demand Gitmo Detainees Release
(Yemen Online)
2013-06-18 -
Retrieved at: 2013-06-17 23:16:00 GMT
17/6/2013 Yemeni and American rights protesters have staged a demonstration in front of U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, demanding release of Yemeni Guantanamo detainees. They demonstrated inside the National Dialogue place in Movenpick Hotel as well. Jamal Al-Awadhi chairman of the National Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development in Yemen says activists are demanding that President Barak Obama enforce his pledge to close Guantanamo Bay and transfer 68 detainees home,
[source: Yemen Online]
Obama selects high-powered lawyer to be new Guantanamo closure envoy at State Department
(Yemen Online)
2013-06-17 -
Retrieved at: 2013-06-16 23:15:00 GMT
17/6/2013 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has chosen a high-powered Washington lawyer with extensive experience in all three branches of the government to be the State Department's special envoy for closing down the military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.Clifford Sloan is the pick to reopen the State Department's Office of Guantanamo Closure, shuttered since January and folded into the department's legal adviser's office when the administration,
[source: Yemen Online]
Yemen, Comoros close 2009 Yemenia crashed plane's file
(Yemen Online)
2013-06-16 -
Retrieved at: 2013-06-15 23:13:00 GMT
16/6/2013Yemen and Comoros agreed to close the case file of the Yemenia plane crashed in 2009 in the Indian Ocean near the Comoran capital Moroni, Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi said Saturday.
He held talks with the Comoran officials on the investigation's findings of the crashed Yemenia plane
[source: Yemen Online]
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