Sanaa: Yemeni police clashed on Sunday with anti-government protesters staging a third-consecutive day of demonstrations calling for political reforms and the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Several thousand protesters, many of them university students, tried to reach the central square in the capital of Sanaa, but were pushed back by police using truncheons. The ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after an 18-day uprising has emboldened protesters in Yemen...
08:41 PM, Feb 13, 2011
Sanaa: Yemeni police with clubs on Saturday beat anti-government protesters who were celebrating the resignation of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and demanding the ouster of their own president. The crackdown reflected an effort to undercut a protest movement seeking fresh momentum from the developments in Egypt, where an 18-day uprising toppled Mubarak. His ouster raised questions about the long-term stability of Yemen and other Western-allied governments in the region. The...
09:07 AM, Feb 13, 2011
Sanaa: As tens of thousands of jubilant people in Cairo celebrated the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, Yemenis inspired by the Egyptian uprising have begun mustering forces for their own revolution. In the southern port city of Aden, protesters marched through the Mansoura district, waving the old flag of South Arabia and chanting "Revolution, revolution for the south", the Christian Science Monitor reported. Just hours before that march, security forces...
04:17 PM, Feb 12, 2011
Rabat: Moroccan authorities have okayed an anti-government protest being planned on the popular social networking site Facebook, a media report said. The media report said several Moroccan youth movements have announced on Facebook that they are planning to organise an Egypt-style anti-government protest on February 20, a move apparently welcomed by the government. "We intend to reassure those who are organising protests on the internet that this is an entirely...
12:36 PM, Feb 05, 2011
Tehran: Iran's supreme leader saluted on Friday what he termed an "Islamic liberation movement" in the Arab world, and advised the people of Egypt and Tunisia to unite around their religion and against the West. In his first public comments on the popular uprisings in the region, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran's Islamic revolution of 1979, which deposed the US-backed Shah, had served as an example to the people living...
05:23 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Sanaa: Dozens of people took to the streets in Yemen in support of the Egyptians' protest against their President Hosni Mubarak and also raised slogans against their country's president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The demonstrators, including opposition politicians and journalists, marched towards the Egyptian embassy in Sanaa on Saturday, RIA Novosti quoted media reports on Sunday. CNN said some 100 people took part in the demonstration, it added. About ten demonstrators...
02:19 PM, Jan 30, 2011
New York: Stock markets around the world slumped, crude oil prices surged and the dollar gained on Friday as images of escalating violence and chaos in Egypt gripped investors and raised concerns the protests will spread across the Middle East. Money managers, who in recent months had been accelerating moves into riskier assets, dumped stocks and piled into safe-haven investments like US Treasuries, the dollar and gold as non-stop media...
07:36 AM, Jan 29, 2011
Sanaa: Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of Sanaa on Thursday to demand a change of government, inspired by the unrest that has ousted Tunisia's leader and spread to Egypt this week. Reuters witnesses estimated that around 16,000 Yemenis demonstrated in four parts of Sanaa in the largest rally since a wave of protests rocked Yemen last week, and protesters vowed to escalate the unrest unless their demands were...
08:29 AM, Jan 28, 2011
Sanaa: A suicide car bomber killed 23 Shiites at a religious procession in Yemen today, an attack a tribal chief charged was a bid by Al-Qaeda to fan sectarian tensions in the already restive country. Tribal leaders said the dead were all supporters or fighters of a Zaidi Shiite rebel group which has been observing an uneasy truce with the government since February. The bomber struck in Al-Jawf province, a...
08:45 PM, Nov 24, 2010
London: Governments, airlines and aviation authorities around the world were reviewing security on Monday after US-bound parcel bombs sent by air from Yemen were intercepted in Dubai and Britain. In London, Prime Minister David Cameron convened a crisis committee to decide Britain's response after one of the packages was found on a United Parcel Service cargo plane at East Midlands Airport, north of London, on Friday. The other bomb was...
10:54 AM, Nov 02, 2010
Washington: A major breakthrough in the Yemen parcel bomb plot that points to the role of the al Qaeda. A senior source in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said it's believed explosive devices found in that country as well as the United Kingdom did travel at least partly aboard commercial airliners. Authorities are starting to learn more about who might be behind that plot, where the sophisticated items were shipped...
12:07 AM, Nov 02, 2010
Washington: A Saudi bomb maker believed to be working with al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing is a key suspect in the parcel bomb plot against the United States, a US official said. Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, who tops a Saudi Arabian terrorism list, is the brother of a suicide bomber killed in an attempt to kill Saudi counter-terrorism chief Prince Mohammed bin Nayef last year. That attack, as well as another attempt...
08:36 AM, Nov 01, 2010
Sanaa: Yemeni security forces on Saturday arrested a woman believed to be involved in sending explosive packages bound for the United States, a security official said. The arrest was the first in the case, which has triggered an international security alert after two packages containing bombs - both sent from Yemen and addressed to synagogues in Chicago - were intercepted in Britain and Dubai. "National security forces have just been...
08:58 AM, Oct 31, 2010
Sanaa/Dubai: Yemeni forces searched on Saturday for suspected al-Qaeda militants behind a plot to bomb Jewish targets in Chicago, uncovered by the interception in Britain and Dubai of parcels with explosives sent from Yemen. US President Barack Obama addressed the nation on Friday, saying US authorities would spare no effort to find the source of the packages which he called a "credible terrorist threat" aimed at two places of Jewish...
06:41 PM, Oct 30, 2010
The US embassy in the Yemeni capital reopened to the public on Tuesday. ...
04:17 PM, Jan 05, 2010
The embassies are concerns about possible militant attacks. ...
03:56 PM, Jan 04, 2010
Only a 14-year-old girl survived the crash of a Yemenia Air Airbus A310. ...
01:12 AM, Jul 03, 2009
