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Seven countries from the Middle East and Africa met in Cairo on Thursday to discuss ways to stop piracy in the Red Sea after the kidnapping of Saudi supertanker "Sirius Star" with 100 million dollars worth of crude oil on board.
Participating countries will discuss how to share information on piracy cases through a centre...
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A powerful explosion rattled a mosque in north-western Yemen on Friday, killing a worshipper and injuring five others, witnesses said.
Witnesses told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the blast took place after the weekly prayers in a village mosque in the Mahabesha district of the north-western province of Hajja.
It was not...
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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said
Sunday that any move by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to
prosecute Sudanese officials over alleged war crimes would only 'ignite
more fires and instability.' 'Such a decision could not serve
security and stability in the region,' Saleh said in a telephone
conversation with Sudanese...
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Two South Korean fishing boats have been captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia, officials informed.The Mavuno 1 and Mavuno 2 vessels have been seized Tuesday, when armed men fired from speedboats towards the ships and eventually took control of the two ships and the multinational crew. "The crew are safe. The ship is anchored...
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Representatives of major wheat producing countries have called for urgent coordinated action to prevent and control the wheat stem rust disease strain Ug99, a United Nations agency said Wednesday.
The fungus is capable of causing heavy damage to wheat crops and is a major threat to food security, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture...
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Germany sharply condemned on Wednesday the car-bomb attack that killed at least 16 people in Yemen.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Jens Ploetner said in Berlin the attack must be investigated and the perpetrators punished.
The ministry tightened its travel advisory for Yemen, advising Germans to be especially cautious while visiting...
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Music by the Polish-born Israeli composer Yehezkel Braun opens Berlin's Jewish Cultural Festival, which begins in the German capital on Saturday.
The official opening of the 22nd festival takes place on Saturday evening with a concert in the synagogue in Rykestrasse, the largest in Germany and one of the few to have survived World War...
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Pirates off the coast of Somalia have seized a Chinese fishing boat and 24 crew including Vietnamese, Philippine and Japanese citizens, Chinese state media reported on Friday.
The Chinese vessel was held off the coast of the southern Somali port of Kismanyu late Thursday, the government's official Xinhua news agency reported from...
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At least nine people were killed and dozens were missing after floods from heavy rains hit eastern Yemen, officials said on Friday.
The officials told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that nearly 400 homes were destroyed in the south-eastern province of Hadhramout, some 900 kilometres from the capital Sana'a.
Yemeni President Ali...
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India has deployed its navy in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia to protect Indian commercial vessels from pirates as 18 Indian sailors were being held captive by Somali pirates, news reports said Friday.
A warship, INS Tabar, has started patrolling the Gulf of Aden and the number of ships would be increased, a Defence Ministry...
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Sixteen people, including six policemen and six al-Qaeda militants, were killed in a car-bomb attack outside the US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sana'a on Wednesday, officials said.
Interior Ministry sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that all six attackers, including one wearing an explosive belt, were killed. A local security...
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Sixteen people, including six policemen and six al-Qaeda militants, were killed in a car-bomb attack outside the US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sana'a on Wednesday, officials said.
Interior Ministry sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that all six attackers, including one wearing an explosive belt, were killed. A local security...
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The 22 crew members of a ship hijacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden are reportedly safe, an Indian Defence Ministry release said Wednesday.
The merchant tanker, owned by a Panamanian company and registered in Hong Kong, was hijacked on Monday with 18 Indian crew members, plus two Filipinos, a Russian and a Bangladeshi, the...
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The attack Wednesday on the US embassy in Sana'a is the latest targeting western institutions in Yemen. Others included:
October 12, 2000: The US destroyer Cole is attacked by an explosive-laden speedboat in the port of Aden. 17 US marines die, 39 people are injured. The attack is attributed to al-Qaeda allies.
March 15, 2002: A...
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Yemeni authorities on Thursday released 12 prominent opposition activists in the country's south accused of instigating civil disorder through a string of violent protests in several southern cities, opposition sources said.
The sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa the men were released after President Ali Abdullah Saleh granted...
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Yemeni police have uncovered a second al-Qaeda-linked terrorist cell in the south-east of the country, just days after security forces raided an al-Qaeda hideout in the area, the official Saba news agency reported Friday.
The agency quoted a security source as saying that police arrested one member of the group after they raided a...
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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in remarks published Wednesday that an al-Qaeda cell dismantled by security forces in south-eastern Yemen had plotted terrorist attacks in his country and its oil-rich neighbour Saudi Arabia.
Saleh was quoted by state newspapers as saying Yemeni police had seized documents containing...
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Yemeni authorities said on Tuesday that a leading member of al-Qaeda in Yemen was killed as police raided an al-Qaeda hide-out in the south-eastern province of Hadhramout.
Official sources said that Hamza al-Quaiti, a suspected mastermind of several terror attacks that hit Yemen in recent months, was among five al-Qaeda suspects...
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 More than 200 million children under age 5 do not receive basic health care in case of illness. Poor children are visibly more exposed to sickening and death risk than the well-off ones.
About 10 million of these die annually, having treatable diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia as a cause, according to the ninth annual State of the...
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 China expressed its concern on Tuesday regarding
the accusations made by the International Criminal Court related to Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over
state-backed acts of genocide in the country’s beleaguered region of Darfur. However, there was no clue that it would take
measures in order to postpone the progression of...
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the 126th day of 2008 with 240 to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in 1813; German political theorist Karl Marx in 1818; hatmaker John...
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 The World Bank has announced a new $1.2
billion program to get emergency aid to countries suffering from global food
shortages and to address the immediate needs in the global food crisis. The financing
facility includes $200 million in grants for the world’s poorest countries.
The World Bank announced that it will boost
its...
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 A British court Thursday approved the extradition to the US of Abu
Hamza, an Egyptian-born Muslim cleric who is currently serving a
seven-year jail term in Britain.
Hamza, 49, is wanted in the US for trial on 11 charges, alleging
that he "funded" terrorism, organized a training camp in the state of
Oregon between 1998...
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A state security court in Sana'a imposed a media gag order Monday in the trial of three opposition leaders charged with stirring up violent protests in southern Yemen earlier this year.Presiding judge Muhssien Alwan issued the order at the start of the second hearing into the case, saying that the gag order applied to both local and...
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 U.S. Vice
President Dick Cheney said on Monday that Palestinian militant group Hamas is
trying to “torpedo” the Middle East peace talks, along with Syria and Iran.
“There is evidence that Hamas is supported by Iran and Syria and they are doing everything
they can do to torpedo the peace process,” Cheney declared quoted by...
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 Gunmen opened fire on a convoy of tourists in south-eastern Yemen on
Friday, killing two female Belgian tourists and two Yemenis, police
officials said.
Another Belgian tourist and three Yemenis were wounded in the attack, the officials said.
They said the assailants opened fire on four Land Cruiser vehicles
carrying 15 tourists...
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US President George W Bush addressed Middle Eastern nations in a keynote speech Sunday in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in which he praised "great" Muslim history and warned of Tehran's threat to regional security.
Bush's speech delivered at the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research was marked by its...
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 For the first time since the 19th century, a volcano situated on a volcanic island, Jabal al-Tair (which means "Bird Mountain'' )100 kilometers, (62 miles) off the coast of the Yemen islands erupted yesterday killing more than four Yemeni soldiers as another nine people are still missing. Twenty-one people were evacuated from the...
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 Monday’s terrorist attack didn’t remain without consequences, as the Yemeni authorities launched an investigation that led them to an Egyptian suspect that was killed in a shootout on Thursday, the police informed.Policemen tried to arrest a man linked to the suicide attack in the suburb of Siteen, but after the security troops...
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 After Monday’s bomb attack, the Yemeni authorities launched a hunt for the perpetrators and arrested 14 persons suspected to have strong ties with al-Qaeda, police officials informed Wednesday.According to Yemeni police sources, investigations lead to a group of eleven people in the region where the bloody incident occurred Marib, while...
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 A suicide attack targeting a tourist convoy in Yemen
killed six Spanish citizens and two Yemenis on Monday.
Security sources said the terrorist attack was surely carried
out by al-Qaeda, who previously threatened with violent reprisals if several
members detained in Yemen
are not released.
The blast occurred near the Queen of...
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