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Al-Awaj: Gas crisis comes to an end

Aug 26, 2008 - 1:47:05 AM
Yemen Gas Company has a strategic stockpile of domestic gas exceeding 800,000 gas cylinders in case they should face any crisis or bottlenecks in the domestic market according to Najeeb al-Awaj, Deputy Executive Director of the Yemen Gas Company.


British Foreign Office downgrades Yemen’s travel advice

Aug 26, 2008 - 1:41:49 AM
The British foreign office cancelled its travel advice that warned British citizens from traveling to Yemen. The new travel advice issued on August 20 warns British citizens against traveling to five Yemeni governorates of Sada, Marib Shabwa, al-Jawf and Hadramout, said Chantel Mortimer, second secretary for political press and projects affairs at the British Embassy in Sana’a.


Yemen to combat terrorism through movies

Aug 26, 2008 - 1:07:36 AM
The cinema movies will be a new method to combat terrorism from now on, said the Yemeni Deputy Prime Minister for Defense and Security Affairs, Rashad Al Alimi, in an opening ceremony of the first Yemeni film on terrorism.


2.6 million Keptagon drug pills captured in Hodeidah

Aug 23, 2008 - 3:05:40 AM
The police of Hodiedah governorate on the western coast of Yemen, captured a large shipment of drugs, loaded in a van, on the highway linking al-Qanawes district to al-Zaydia district 60 kilometers to the north of Hodeidah city last Tuesday, said a security source in Hodiedah security office.


Daily thousand infiltrators captured at Saudi boarders

Aug 23, 2008 - 3:03:22 AM
Saudi authorities confirmed that their boarder guards capture over 1000 infiltrators to Saudi territories each day to beg during Ramadan month.


President order to improve media workers conditions

Aug 23, 2008 - 12:10:46 AM
President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered the government to improve the living standards for journalists and media personnel.


Al Qaeda threatens to retaliate

Aug 23, 2008 - 12:04:42 AM
Five members of an al-Qaeda cell were arrested in Qatan district of Hadramout governorate in the southeast of Yemen on Monday August 19, said a source at the Hadramout governorate security office.


Five members of al-Qaeda cell arrested in south Yemen

Aug 20, 2008 - 3:31:38 AM
Five members of an al-Qaeda cell were arrested in Qatan district of Hadramout governorate in the south east of Yemen on Monday August 19, said a source at Hadramout governorate security.


Parliament rejects amendments, votes for 2001 elections law

Aug 19, 2008 - 1:34:53 AM
The Yemen Parliament voted unanimously on the compelling elections law that was issued in 2001 instead of the controversial new draft elections law that was supposed to be voted on Monday August 19.


Clergyman warns against stalking the streets

Aug 19, 2008 - 1:32:03 AM
A Yemen religious scholar warned on Monday against self-imposed people patrolling the streets with the claim of promoting virtue and preventing vice.


Gas and diesel crisis strikes again

Aug 19, 2008 - 1:12:18 AM
The crisis witnessed by the domestic markets for the past four days with the lack of domestic gas was the result of a technical malfunction in one of Safer refinery laboratories.


Yemeni security breaks new terrorist cell

Aug 17, 2008 - 12:21:30 AM
Security sources revealed Saturday that a large-scale hunting down operations are carried out by security authorities for arresting terrorist cell composed of 35 persons in a number of governorates across Yemen.


Exxon and Hunt’s lawsuit rejected

Aug 16, 2008 - 12:51:52 AM
The International Arbitration Court rejected on Monday a lawsuit filed by the Yemeni Company for Explorations and Production (YCEP), owned by the American Exxon Mobil and Hunt companies, against the Yemeni government.


US Department of State brings employees back to Yemen

Aug 16, 2008 - 12:41:27 AM
The U.S Department of State issued a new travel warning on August 13 in which it has lifted the ordered departure status of non-essential American employees and adult family members of all employees at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa.


Parliament reports on corruption at oil establishments

Aug 16, 2008 - 12:29:34 AM
The Oil and Development Parliamentary Committee has disclosed in a report a swathe of corruption cases and public treasury money misuse by the Yemeni Petroleum Company, failing to collect billions of the Aden Johaif renting revenues.


Five members of terrorist cell killed and two others detained

Aug 14, 2008 - 6:55:22 AM
Five terrorists were killed and two others detained by security forces in Tarim district, Hadramout province, in the south east of Yemen last Monday.


Rabbi of Al-Salam Jews demands $100 million compensation

Aug 13, 2008 - 4:54:40 AM
Yahya Joseph Mossa, the Rabbi of the Jewish community in al-Salam, has claimed that al-Huthi’s followers stole his car from his friend and local sheikh Bin Daji’s house in Sa’adah province on July 26.


Yemeni female political activists fight back

Aug 12, 2008 - 5:15:05 AM
A large group of women reunited on Monday, August 11, around a table at the Women National Committee (WNC) offices in Sana’a, the technical committee of the government’s Supreme Council for Women Affairs.


Vice and virtue committee elects its leaderships

Aug 11, 2008 - 12:52:46 AM
The newly established vice and virtue committee elected Sheikh Abdulmajid al-Zindani as a president of the committee, Sheikh Sadiq Bin Abdullah Bin Hussein al-Ahmar vice president and Sheikh Hamoud al-Tharihi as a Secretary General, said Sheikh Hamoud al-Tharihi.


Saleh and Fayyad discuss talks on inter-Palestinian feud

Aug 10, 2008 - 1:16:05 AM
President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad discussed efforts to hold reconciliation talks between the rival Palestinian movements of Fatah and Hamas.


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