Yemeni children in critical need of medical care were evacuated Monday from the rebel-held capital Sanaa, in what the United Nations hopes will be the first of more mercy flights. Seven young patients and their relatives flew out of Sanaa airport, which has been closed to commercial flights since 2016, aboard a UN-marked plane bound […]
Yemen’s Cabinet has approved a law granting President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and anyone who has worked under him, immunity from prosecution.
A fierce gun battle has broken out between Yemeni police and opposition tribesmen in Sana’a — a day after President Saleh refused to quit office.
Forces loyal to Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh shot dead two protesters and injured scores in crackdowns on protesters across the country.
A Gulf plan to end months of bloody unrest calls for Yemen’s President to step down 30 days after the formation of a unity government.
Opponents of Yemen’s President Saleh stepped up a campaign to force him out on Friday, but Saleh was defiant, urging opposition to join peace talks.
Yemen’s president urged the opposition to join talks to try to end weeks of turmoil and violence in which three more people were killed on Tuesday.
Police and armed men in civilian clothes opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in Yemeni cities on Monday, leaving 15 dead and dozens wounded.
Pro-regime supporters armed with batons and stones on Tuesday waded into anti-government protesters trying to march on Yemen’s presidential palace.
Rocks and batons flew in Sana’a on Monday as pro-democracy protesters clashed violently with police and supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Tens of thousands of Yemenis squared off in peaceful protests for and against the government on Thursday during an opposition-led "Day of Rage".
Yemeni tribesmen have released a South African tourist and her two sons unharmed, a day after they kidnapped them in the southern province of Abyan.
Yemeni tribesmen on Friday kidnapped a South African woman and her two sons in southern Yemen, demanding the release of a relative held by police.
Soft approach to jihadists starts to backfire as poverty fuels extremism.Ian Black reports.
About 15 people were killed and over 60 were wounded when a bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded outside a mosque in Yemen’s volatile northern city of Saada on Friday, a security source said. The blast happened as worshippers, including army officers, were leaving the Salman Mosque after Friday prayers, officials and security sources said.
Spanish, French and American tourists once filled the winding alleys of Sanaa’s old quarter, drawn by Yemen’s 2 500-year-old history and unique architecture. But a spate of attacks on foreigners is driving visitors away and souvenir shop owner Hussain Abdel Moghni says the only tourists who come to Yemen these days are ”adventurers”.
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/ 25 February 2008
Foreigners wander freely among the handsome stone and baked-brick houses of Sanaa’s Old City, but elsewhere in Yemen al-Qaeda attacks have damaged a fledgling tourism industry already hurt by tribal kidnappings. The government, which hopes tourism earnings can help offset flagging oil revenues, is struggling to shore up security by providing armed police escorts for travel to certain areas.
At least eight Yemeni soldiers were killed in a volcanic eruption on an island off the country’s Red Sea coast, the government said on Monday. A Defence Ministry official said the western part of the island had "collapsed" following the eruption. Yemen’s oil minister said several earthquakes felt on Sunday had triggered the eruption.
Six Spanish tourists and one Yemeni were killed in an attack by a suspected al-Qaeda suicide car bomber in the Yemeni province of Marib on Monday, security sources said. Security sources said the ”terrorist attack” followed an al-Qaeda statement demanding the release of some of its members.
Yemen said on Friday it has recalled its ambassadors from both Libya and Iran for consultations over the two countries’ purported backing of Shi’ite rebels fighting against government forces. In recent months, heavy fighting has flared up again between the rebels and government troops in Saada province in the northern mountains on the Saudi border.
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/ 6 December 2006
A Yemeni court on Wednesday fined a newspaper editor 500 000 rials ( 541) for reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which provoked outrage among Muslims around the world earlier this year. The court found Mohammad al-Assadi, editor-in-chief of the English daily Yemen Observer, guilty of denigrating Islam.
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/ 20 September 2006
Yemenis began voting on Wednesday in elections that long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh is expected to win, despite facing a genuine challenge from a former minister. Polling stations opened at 8am (5am GMT) as over nine million Yemenis vote in a president and municipal council representatives.
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/ 15 September 2006
Yemen foiled two suicide attacks on its oil and gas facilities on Friday, days after al-Qaeda urged Muslims to target Western interests, especially oil installations. The Interior Ministry said four bombers were killed when security forces blew up four rigged cars at dawn before they reached their targets. A guard was also killed.
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/ 12 September 2006
At least 50 people were killed and 100 hurt in a stampede on Tuesday at a stadium in southern Yemen during an election rally by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a week ahead of polls already marred by violence. The victims were crushed to death when tens of thousands of people tried to gain entry into the sports stadium at the town of Ibb, witnesses said.
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/ 29 December 2005
At least 30 Yemenis were killed in an overnight landslide which hit a village on a rocky slope near the capital Sanaa. There are approximately 100 people still missing, an interior ministry official said on Thursday. Yemen’s Saba official news agency said that 25 out of the village’s 31 houses were destroyed and were buried under huge piles of rocks
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/ 5 September 2005
About 75 Ethiopian and Somali boat refugees are feared to have drowned when smugglers taking them to Yemen forced them to jump into the sea, with scores more missing. Forty-five bodies have been recovered on the shores of Shabwa province, said an official with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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/ 29 September 2004
A Yemeni judge on Wednesday sentenced two men to death for orchestrating the suicide bombing of the USS Cole, in which 17 United States sailors were killed. The judge sentenced four others to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years for the attack on the destroyer on October 12 2000.
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/ 8 September 2004
Six people were killed and about 50 injured on Wednesday in an unexplained explosion in north-west Yemen near an area where there have been clashes between the army and followers of a rebel Muslim preacher, witnesses and medical sources said. The blast occurred in a market in Kataf, east of Saada province.
Thirty-four soldiers and 18 militants were killed in 24 hours as the military battled its way through a key stronghold of a rebel Muslim preacher in northwest Yemen, military and medical sources said on Thursday. The military suffered heavy casualties because its troops were much more exposed than the rebels, the sources said.
More than 100 Ethiopian refugees are missing after the boat they were sailing on to Yemen sank when it collided with another vessel in Somali territorial waters on March 20, a United Nations official said on Wednesday. ”The boat sank with 120 refugees aboard,” said the official.
Security forces have arrested one of the top leaders of the al-Qaeda terror network in Yemen during a hunt for Islamic extremists in the southern province of Abyan, local officials said on Thursday. ”A senior official of al-Qaeda in Yemen who was wanted by the police was arrested Wednesday night,” one official said.