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This is criminal justice, Yemen style. A man accused of raping and murdering an 11-year-old boy is paraded through his home town before being shot dead by an...
made popular Jul 7 2009
A Yemeni airliner with about 150 people on board has crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago.
“We don’t know if there are any...
made popular Jun 30 2009
Yemeni authorities have arrested the financier of Al-Qaeda operations in the country and in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, an official said on Sunday, as cited on the...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Reports from southern Yemen say at least three people were killed when police broke up an unauthorised demonstration in Aden.
Others were injured, and dozens of...
made popular May 22 2009
AP, San'a
Armed protesters in Yemen’s troubled south ambushed a military camp Monday, killing one soldier, an official said, as fighting between the government and...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, San'a
The cave tucked in the remote Saudi mountains near the Yemeni border was clearly a way station for Islamic militants, Saudi police say, pointing to the stock of guns...
made popular May 3 2009
AP, San'a
A Yemeni security official says coast guard forces have freed a hijacked Yemeni oil tanker and arrested 11 pirates.
made popular Apr 27 2009
AP, Kharif
In this village in northern Yemen, where a kosher butcher slaughters chickens and the school bus carries young boys in side curls along a dirt track to their Hebrew...
made popular Apr 26 2009
AP, Nairobi
A U.S. Navy spokesman says a German-owned ship has been hijacked in the pirate-infested waters between Somalia and Yemen.
made popular Apr 25 2009
AP, San'a
The two young sons of a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo died when a grenade they were playing with accidentally detonated inside their home, a human rights lawyer and the...
made popular Apr 23 2009
AP, San'a
She was 2 years old when her father promised her in marriage to a man in his 30s. It was a swap, so the father could marry the man’s sister without paying the...
made popular Apr 16 2009
After a Yemeni Jews was killed in a grotesque act of violence, American Zionist organizations started a campaign to airlift the remaining Yemeni Jews to Israel.
The...
made popular Mar 28 2009
AP, San'a
A Yemeni security official says a suicide bomber has hit a convoy carrying the South Korean ambassador, but no one was hurt.
made popular Mar 18 2009
AP, San'a
A Yemeni security official says 12 Islamist suspects have been arrested in connection with an attack that killed four South Korean tourists at a historical site.
made popular Mar 16 2009
AP, San'a
A suicide bomber attacked a group of South Korean tourists in southern Yemen on Sunday, killing four of them, said officials, the latest such attack targeting...
made popular Mar 15 2009
AP, San'a
Yemen security officials say four South Korean tourists were killed in a suicide bombing in southern Yemen.
made popular Mar 15 2009
AP, Vienna
Yemen has barred a former child bride from being honored in Austria, saying she is too young to travel alone.
made popular Mar 5 2009
Why would a 30-plus year-old man be interested in an 8-year-old girl? What could he possibly find in common with a child of that age, a pre-pubescent who has yet to...
made popular Feb 27 2009
AP, Geneva
Six African migrants drowned and 11 more are presumed dead after smugglers in the Gulf of Aden forced their passengers overboard in deep water off Yemen, the U.N....
made popular Feb 24 2009
AP, San'a
Four Yemenis have been convicted of forming an al-Qaida cell to attack government and foreign targets in the country. They received prison sentences of between two and...
made popular Feb 24 2009
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Across the Middle East, marriage is seen as a rite of passage to adulthood, and, for women particularly, is still viewed as the gateway to independence, financial...
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As the great Indian writer Vikram Seth has said in his famous book ‘Heaven’s Lake’, China has undergone dramatic changes after the Great Cultural...
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