Posts tagged with "Yemen"

Yemen risks new cholera outbreak as rainy season begins World

Yemen risks new cholera outbreak as rainy season begins

May 4th, 20180 SANAA — Yemen's rainy season will likely trigger another wave of cholera, putting millions at risk in the war-torn country, which is still reeling from one of the world's worst outbreaks of the killer disease, scientists warned on Thursday. Experts also called for a public health campaign during Ramadan, which begins mid-May, after...
Comparative geopolitical analysis: Yemen and the U.S. Opinions

Comparative geopolitical analysis: Yemen and the U.S.

April 30th, 20180 By Dr. Rais Attamimi and Dr. Ali Alghail   Recently, some comparative analysis has been in the mainstream media about the way in which, to take one example, American citizens led by the teenagers protested the dangerous availability of assault weapons on the one hand, and citizens of the Middle East, Yemen in particular, when,...
Syria donors fall short without U.S. aid, warn of cruel end-game World

Syria donors fall short without U.S. aid, warn of cruel end-game

April 26th, 20180 BRUSSELS ― International donors raised $4.4 billion in emergency aid for Syria and its neighbors this year on Wednesday, but the total fell well short of the U.N. target for 2018 after the United States failed to submit a pledge. Humanitarian agencies also pleaded for peace before the Syrian military and its Russian and Iranian...
Bride among 20 killed, 50 wounded in Saudi-led airstrike that hit wedding in Yemen World

Bride among 20 killed, 50 wounded in Saudi-led airstrike that hit wedding in Yemen

April 23rd, 20180 SANAA - At least 20 people including the bride were killed when an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition hit a wedding party in northern Yemen, health officials have said. The dead were mostly women and children gathered in a tent set up for the wedding in the Bani Qayis district, according to Khaled al-Nadhri, the leading health...
U.N. Security Council condemns Houthi missile attacks on Saudi Arabia World

U.N. Security Council condemns Houthi missile attacks on Saudi Arabia

March 30th, 20180 UNITED NATIONS — On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council condemned a barrage of missile attacks against Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Houthi group and expressed grave concern at reports of violations of an U.N. arms embargo on Houthi leaders. In a statement, the 15-member Security Council expressed alarm at a Houthi threat to...
Barrage of missiles on Saudi Arabia ramps up Yemen war World

Barrage of missiles on Saudi Arabia ramps up Yemen war

March 26th, 20180 RIYADH/SANAA — The Houthi movement that controls northern Yemen vowed on Monday to fire more missiles into Saudi Arabia unless it stops bombing the country, after one of its missiles caused casualties in the Saudi capital for the first time. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis accused them of using Iranian-made missiles....
Trump's red-carpet reception for Saudi crown prince: Give us your money! U.S.A

Trump’s red-carpet reception for Saudi crown prince: Give us your money!

March 23rd, 20180 WASHINGTON — President Trump gave a warm welcome to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday and credited U.S. defense sales to the Saudis with boosting American jobs, even as Riyadh's involvement in Yemen's civil war faced criticism. In the Oval Office, Trump and the crown prince praised the strength of U.S.-Saudi...
Iran, Yemen in focus as Trump and Saudi prince meet at White House U.S. Politics

Iran, Yemen in focus as Trump and Saudi prince meet at White House

March 20th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. ― President Trump and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will discuss tensions with Iran and a Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen which has come under criticism in Congress when they meet on Tuesday. Their talks at the White House are part of the first visit by the prince to the United States since...
Houthis and Saudi Arabia in secret talks to end war in Yemen World

Houthis and Saudi Arabia in secret talks to end war in Yemen

March 16th, 20180 RIYADH/SANAA — Saudi Arabia and its adversaries in Yemen's armed Houthi movement are holding secret talks to try to end a three-year-old war that has unleashed the world's worst humanitarian crisis, diplomats and Yemeni political sources said. A Saudi-led coalition is fighting to counter the influence of Riyadh's arch-foe Iran, an...
Saudi crown prince: Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear bomb if Iran does World

Saudi crown prince: Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear bomb if Iran does

March 16th, 20180 RIYADH — Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear weapons if its arch-rival Iran does so, the kingdom's crown prince said in remarks released on Thursday, raising the prospect of a nuclear arms race in a region already riven with conflict. "Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt if Iran developed a...
Street artist in Yemen remembers casualties of war World

Street artist in Yemen remembers casualties of war

March 2nd, 20180 SANAA — Yemeni street artist Haifa Subay is painting murals to help ensure that victims of Yemen's grueling three-year civil war are not forgotten. Her latest mural, portraying a one-legged casualty of a landmine, is one of many Subay has done in the capital Sanaa during the war, which has killed thousands, driven many more from...
Free clinic opens for Yemenis impoverished by war World

Free clinic opens for Yemenis impoverished by war

February 27th, 20180 SANAA - Volunteer doctors are offering free medical services for a week at a clinic in the Yemeni capital Sanaa to treat people impoverished by a war which has killed thousands and wrecked the economy. The initiative, dubbed “Breeze of Hope,” is the first by a group of nurses and doctors to conduct electrocardiograms, x-rays and...
U.N. Security Council mulls Saudi praise for Yemen aid pledge World

U.N. Security Council mulls Saudi praise for Yemen aid pledge

February 16th, 20180 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council is considering a British proposal to praise Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for pledging nearly $1 billion to ease Yemen’s humanitarian crisis, even as U.N. experts accuse a Saudi-led military coalition of using “the threat of starvation as an instrument of war” in...
Yemen's Islah party suspends membership of Nobel laureate Karman World

Yemen’s Islah party suspends membership of Nobel laureate Karman

February 6th, 20180 DUBAI — Yemeni Nobel Prize winner Tawakkol Karman was suspended from a party allied with President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after she accused the Saudi-led coalition that backs him in the country’s civil war of acting as occupiers. Karman won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her role in Arab Spring protests that ousted authoritarian...
WHO: Suspected diphtheria cases in Yemen near 500 World

WHO: Suspected diphtheria cases in Yemen near 500

January 5th, 20180 GENEVA — At least 471 people in Yemen are believed to have been infected with diphtheria, killing one in 10 of them since the outbreak began in mid-August, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest countries, is embroiled in a proxy war between the Houthi armed movement, allied with...
Yemen: Saudi-led coalition air raids kill dozens in Sanaa World

Yemen: Saudi-led coalition air raids kill dozens in Sanaa

December 15th, 20170 SANAA — Saudi-led coalition aircraft struck a military police camp in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people and wounding 90 more, including some prisoners, an official and witnesses said. The strike is part of an air campaign by the Western-backed coalition on the Iran-allied Houthis that has escalated...
Yemen war: Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh 'killed' World

Yemen war: Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh ‘killed’

December 4th, 20170 SANAA - Reports from Yemen say ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed in clashes with the rival Houthi movement. Houthi-controlled al-Masirah TV cited the interior ministry as announcing the "end of the crisis of the treason militia and the killing of its leader". There was no independent confirmation, but pictures...
Hariri: Hezbollah must remain neutral to ensure Lebanon moves forward World

Hariri: Hezbollah must remain neutral to ensure Lebanon moves forward

November 28th, 20170 PARIS — Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said on Monday that the political and militant group Hezbollah must stop interfering in regional conflicts and accept a neutral policy to bring an end to Lebanon’s political crisis. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah, which forms part of the Lebanese government, is fighting alongside Syrian...
Reining in the rogue royal of Arabia Opinions

Reining in the rogue royal of Arabia

November 17th, 20170 By Patrick J. Buchanan If the crown prince of Saudi Arabia has in mind a war with Iran, President Trump should disabuse his royal highness of any notion that America would be doing his fighting for him. Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS, the 32-year-old son of the aging and ailing King Salman, is making too many enemies for his own good,...
California appeals court lets Trump travel ban go partially into effect U.S. Politics

California appeals court lets Trump travel ban go partially into effect

November 13th, 20170 WASHINGTON — A U.S. appeals court in California on Monday let President Trump’s latest travel ban go partially into effect, ruling the government can bar entry of people from six Muslim-majority countries with no connections to the United States. A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Saudi prince killed in helicopter crash near Yemen World

Saudi prince killed in helicopter crash near Yemen

November 5th, 20170 Prince Mansour bin Moqren, the  deputy governor of Saudi Arabia's southern Asir province, and several colleagues were killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday, Saudi state TV Ekhbariya reported. Local newspaper Okaz reported the helicopter went down while the officials were taking a tour of an area near the coast in Asir, which borders...
China backs U.N. call for justice in Yemen, while U.S. and Saudis don't World

China backs U.N. call for justice in Yemen, while U.S. and Saudis don’t

September 14th, 20170 GENEVA ― China signaled on Wednesday it was willing to back an international inquiry into atrocities in Yemen, as demanded by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, but Saudi Arabia and the United States said they did not support the idea. For three years running U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra‘ad al-Hussein has asked the 47...
Yemen: Saudi-led coalition air raid kills at least 12, including six children World

Yemen: Saudi-led coalition air raid kills at least 12, including six children

August 25th, 20170 SANAA - An air raid by Saudi led Coalition struck a building in Yemen’s capital on Friday, killing at least 12 people, six of them children, when an adjacent apartment block collapsed, residents said. RThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) denounced the loss of life as outrageous and put the death toll in the early...
Yemen hit by more airstrikes in first half of 2017 than in all of last year World

Yemen hit by more airstrikes in first half of 2017 than in all of last year

August 20th, 20170 SANAA — Yemen suffered more airstrikes in the first half of this year than in the whole of 2016, increasing the number of civilian deaths and forcing more people to flee their homes, according to a report by international aid agencies. The pace of clashes on the ground has also intensified this year, especially around Yemen's third...
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