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Political forces reach dead end in Yemen |  Yemeni parliament ruled out on Monday a draft of election law amendments, sparking tensions between the ruling party, the General People Congress and the opposition...
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Eritrea seizes five fishing boats |  Yemen's Interior Ministry said that it started investigating and contacted the concerned authorities and the Eritrean authorities in order to end such illegal practices, charging, in the meantime, the Eritrean authorities ...
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Hadhramout's JMP boycotts meeting with vice president |  The opposition alliance, the Joint Meeting Parties, in Hadhramout province, has declared its boycott to a meeting with Vice-President Abid Rabu Mansour Hadi protesting not releasing political prisoners, according
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Yemeni political prisoners to be released |  Yemeni opposition agreed on Saturday morning with president Ali Abdullah Saleh to release all political prisoners including the comedian Fahad al-Qarni , the outspoken journalist ,Abdul-Karim al-Khaiwani , the head of ...
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Dhala governor meets opposition |  They discussed in their meeting mutual cooperation with the leadership of local authorities, democracy, Freedoms, eradicating military checkpoints...
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YEMEN: Alarm bells over water |  availability in Yemen has been worsening by the year and the government has no clear strategy on how to deal with the problem...
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French engineer released |  Local mediation team led by tribal figures and local officials could release a French engineer of Algerian origin on Wednesday after holding him hostage for one day in Shabwa, some 580 km south-east of the capital ...
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Hundreds protest in Taiz |  Thousands of citizens held a sit-in in Taiz on Wednesday demanding to put an end to increasing prices of foodstuff, solve water crisis in their province and prvide job ...
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|  Yemeni authorities say pirates have attacked and possibly hijacked a British-flagged commercial ship off the ...
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Lawsuit filed against Yemen dismissed |  The International Court of Arbitration which belongs to the International Chamber of Commerce dismissed on Monday a lawsuit filed by the Yemeni Company for Explorations and Production, owned by the American ...
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Yemen's opposition withdraws from parliament |  The parliamentary bloc of Yemen's opposition , JMP, withdrew on Tuesday from the parliament, protesting an attempt by the ruling party to offer a draft of election law amendment to parliament before reaching...
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The curse of Yemen |  It is only mid-afternoon in Sana'a's picturesque old city, a maze of tall gingerbread houses, braying animals and colourful markets. But is is strangely quiet as shopkeepers lounge behind their wares, many of them chewing away furiously at a green wad the size of a golfball. Drivers ...
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Three killed in shootout with al-Qaeda |  Three policemen were killed and three others were wounded in a shootout between security forces and al-Qaeda elements in Tarim of Hadhramout province, 800 kilometers ...
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Islah demands to hold involved of Saada war accountable |  The shoura council of the Islah party in Taiz province has demanded the authorities to immediately free all political prisoners, calling, in the meantime, for forming a supreme committee for national dialogue in order to save ...
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Businessman incarcerated in private jail |  National Committee for Defending Rights and Freedoms, known as HOOD, has revealed that two people are incarcerated in a private prison in Dhamar province belonging to the state-run ...
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YSP boycotts parliament sessions |  Zaid al-Shami , deputy of the Islah party's parliamentary bloc, said that the boycott of YSP came as emphasis to the stances of the Joint Meeting Parties towards militarizing of political life and not releasing political prisoners ...
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JMP calls for protesting Wednesday |  The Joint Meeting Parties have called for staging a sit-in in Taiz province on Wednesday in order to demand releasing all political prisoners and stopping ...
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Yemeni detained in Malaysia |  The General Union of Yemeni Youths in Malaysia has revealed that a Yemeni student was detained in Malaysia two weeks ago, appealing ,in the meantime , president Ali Abdullah Saleh to order the concerned authorities ...
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FM: French warnings are unwarrantable |  Yemen's Foreign Minister has described France's cautions to its citizens over traveling to Yemen as unwarrantable, affirming that Yemen's security services had taken all measures to ...
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Hundreds suffer odd hereditary disease |  Hundreds of people living in a village of Haja province in Yemen suffer odd hereditary disease, according to an investigative report released by the state-run ...
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Court puts off looking into al-Khaiwani case |  Yemeni court refused on Tuesday looking into the case of the journalist Abdul-Karim al-Khaiwani along with other 14 suspects charged with forming an armed group to attack country’s interests and supporting ...
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YCSS issues 2007 report on Yemen |  The Yemeni Centre for Strategic Studies has issued its 2007 report on Yemen, saying that relations between the ruling party, the General People Congress and the opposition, the Joint Meeting Parties, have failed, pointing out,...
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YEMEN: The conflict in Saada Governorate |  Since 2004 hundreds of people have been killed and thousands displaced as a result of fighting between Shia rebels and government forces in the northern governorate of Saada. IRIN takes a look at the background to the conflict, and tries to ...
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Almost 864 political prisoners in Yemen |  Several activists have stressed the importance of opposing the arbitrary arrests, affirming the illegality of what is named the State Security Court in which southern leaders ...
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Korean ambassador's house shot |  House of the Korean ambassador to Yemen, Won-ho Kwak , was subject on Tuesday to shooting in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, as two tribes shot it out next to the embassy...
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Southern leaders tried with media ban |  The three senior leaders of the Yemeni Social Party, Hassan Ba Oam, Yahya al-Shouaibi and Ali al-Gharib are charged with inciting violent protests and riots that hit several southern ...
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Democratic School demands to agree on SCER |  The Democratic School has expressed disappointment over failing to form the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum in Yemen despite the lack of time to prepare for the upcoming parliamentary ...
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Saudi authorities have affirmed that its border guards seize over 1000 Yemeni infiltrators a day trying to enter the Saudi territories to work as beggars ...
WJWC pointed out to the most recent arrest of a human rights activist, Dr. Mohammad al-Saqaf, last Monday while he was leaving ...
Yemeni opposition, the Joint Meeting Parties, has accused the authorities of practicing physical and mental abuses against hundreds of detainees ...
The ministry further explained that the Eritrean authorities seized four Yemeni boats, confiscated their contents and then returned ...
Yemeni official security source has ruled off the accuracy of the International Committee of the Red Cross's figures about the ...
The head of Al-Haq Party's shoura council Mohammad Miftah has been going on a hunger strike since two ...
Somali pirates have freed two German hostages who had been kidnapped off Yemen's coasts in Aden Gulf ...
Aid workers are struggling to reach needy people uprooted by conflict in northern Yemen, the International Committee of ...
A recently formed government committee has faced problems assessing damage to buildings and property in conflict-hit Saada...
Yemeni National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms has revealed that two groups charged by the authorities with terror were subject ...
Yemeni comedian and singer Fahad al-Qarni has asked the opposition parties to not respond to the authorities pressures in ...
Official Yemeni authorities have denied news reports about stopping renewing residence permits of almost 200,000 Iraqis...
Yemeni authorities have refused renewing 200,000 residence permits of Iraqis as a result of backing al-Hohuthi ...
Eight supervisors were arrested on Monday while they were protesting before the Education Ministry to have provisional ...
Preachers have vividly condemned a terror operation carried out by al-Qaeda last Friday in Sayun of the Hadramout 
He considered the opposition's boycott of the up-coming parliamentary elections which is set to be held in early 2009, in case the General People Congress and the Joint Meeting Parties failed to reconcile, would lead to hold mock ...
Gas Cities LLC, a joint venture between Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East's first and largest regional private-sector natural gas company, and its partner Crescent Petroleum, announced today that the 461 million square foot site for the Kurdistan Gas ...
The sources said that the Eritrean soldiers were hunting a Yemeni fishing boat in Yemen's territorial waters, pointing out...
The spokesman of the Joint Meeting Parties Mohammad al-Qobati has affirmed that JMP refused referring election law to ...
The bin Laden Construction Company has managed to bring $ 50 billion to establish a 28.5-km-long bridge linking between ...
The court had refused in pervious hearings to prosecute al-Qarni in absentia, asking to bring him in order to defend himself before ...
Sahwa Net was informed that the National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms is to file suits against the two saada war sides, Yemen's government and al-Houth rebels, as thousands of the rebels and ...
The demonstrators said that gunmen seized their lands using tractors and when they tried to prevent them, they were attacked...
Hundreds of citizens in Dhala governorate took part Monday in a massive rally demanding to stop prosecuting senior southern leaders and release ...
Local sources have affirmed that two soldiers were seriously injured on Sunday when policemen tried to evict slum dwellers , known as akhadam in Yemen, from shacks 
