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/ 24 February 2011
Forty-nine Somali migrants drowned when their boat capsized during heavy winds in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen’s southern coast.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power since 1978, vowed on Monday not to quit under pressure from the street.
Protests and crackdowns follow successful uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
The Middle East boiled with anger as protestors trying to topple more of the region’s rulers staged fresh mass demonstrations after Friday prayers
Yemeni police opened fire Thursday on a crowd of protesters shot and injured six people on Thursday evening trying to break up a demonstration.
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.
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/ 10 February 2011
Yemen is teetering on the brink of failed statehood but protesters’ midday departures cast doubt on whether Yemenis are ready to mount a revolt.
Tens of thousands of Yemenis squared off in peaceful protests for and against the government on Thursday during an opposition-led "Day of Rage".
More than 20 000 Yemenis filled the streets of Sana’a on Thursday for a Day of Rage rally, demanding a change in government.
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/ 30 November 2010
Al-Qaeda-published magazine <em>Inspire</em> outlines the jihad-inspired group’s plan to "bleed the enemy to death"
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/ 2 November 2010
Officials tracked shipments of household goods from Yemen to Chicago in September and considered that the parcels might be a dry run for an attack.
Al-Qaeda militants in the mountains of Yemen posting bombs to America? Order more drone strikes or send in the Marines. If only it were that simple.
Yemeni security forces were on Sunday searching for suspects who posted bombs on two US-bound flights after arresting a woman.
Suspected al-Qaeda gunmen assaulted two south Yemen security offices on Wednesday in coordinated shooting attacks, killing at least two people.
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/ 27 February 2010
Water supply already causes armed conflict in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, but there is worse to come for a hungry country when the oilfields run dry.
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/ 24 February 2010
A ceasefire in northern Yemen has calmed a conflict that drove thousands of people from their homes, but bloody images still haunt Ali Nasser.
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/ 10 January 2010
In Yemen, Somalia and beyond, the lawless, strife-torn region has provided disturbing evidence that its myriad problems cannot be ignored.
Britain, the US and three other European nations either kept their embassies in Yemen closed or restricted public access.
Yemen’s president has met a top US general to discuss boosting military cooperation, after Barack Obama tied al-Qaeda’s regional arm to terrorism.
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/ 28 December 2009
An insurgency in the remote Shabwa region of Yemen backed by groups claiming loyalty to al-Qaeda has provided a base for the global terror network.
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/ 24 December 2009
Yemeni forces killed 34 suspected al-Qaeda members in a dawn raid on Thursday, a security source said.
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/ 20 October 2009
A Yemeni court sentenced to death on Tuesday 10 members of a Shi’ite insurgency movement in the north that has displaced tens of thousands.
Yemen accused a leading figure among separatists in the south on Thursday of being behind an assassination attempt against a senior security official.
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/ 29 September 2009
A Yemeni Shi’ite rebel leader on Tuesday denied government claims that the sect’s insurgents want to set up a Shi’ite state in north Yemen.
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/ 22 September 2009
Oxfam warned on Tuesday that Yemen could soon face a serious humanitarian crisis after fighting escalated in August
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/ 18 September 2009
The UN top human rights official called on Yemen on Friday to investigate an air raid by its warplanes this week against a makeshift refugee camp.
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/ 17 September 2009
More than 80 refugees died this week in an army air raid on a camp in north Yemen, a camp source said on Thursday.
Iran called on Monday for a political solution to fighting in Yemen, days after a Yemeni official implied Iranian involvement in a Shi’ite rebellion.
Thousands of Somalis fleeing fighting around the capital have massed in a northern town, trying to cross the Gulf of Aden and sneak into Yemen.
A Yemeni court sentenced an Islamist to death on Monday after convicting him of seeking to work for Israeli intelligence services.
A suicide bomber on Wednesday struck a convoy carrying South Korean officials sent to Yemen to probe an earlier bombing that killed four tourists.