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Made Popular Jun 30 2009
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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 survivors,” Comoros vice-president Idi Nadhoim told Reuters news agency.

The Airbus 310 was operated...

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Grace Calderon, Quezon City
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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Shelly, Seattle
Two suicide car bombs set off a series of explosions outside the heavily fortified US embassy in Yemen today, killing 16 people including six attackers, a Yemeni...
made popular Sep 17 2008
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Jane Novak, NYC
Yemeni journalist Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani was very pleased to win Amnesty International’s Human Rights Media Award in June. Unfortunately he was unable to accept it...
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Grace Calderon, Quezon City
The average marrying age of Yemeni females is 12 to 13. They are pulled out of school, end up illiterate, forced to have children before their bodies are ready, and...
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Wayne, Birmingham
Elbaneh’s detention was ordered one day after a Washington Post article on how he was living under the personal protection of Yemen’s president, Ali...
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Timothy, Ottawa
A court in Yemen has granted a divorce to a wife aged only 8 years old, citing that the marriage was forced on the child. The court ruled that the 8 year old was...
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Pratyush, New Delhi
On Saturday, a mentally disturbed security guard suddenly opened fire on some people on a group of people at an oil field in southeastern part in Yemen and killed an...
made popular Jun 24 2007
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May 4 2009 by AP0 Comments

Armed protesters in Yemen’s troubled south ambushed a military camp Monday, killing one soldier, an official said, as fighting between the government and disaffected tribesmen intensified in this impoverished country on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

 
 
May 3 2009 by AP0 Comments

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 and ammunition, nooks for holding hostages and cameras for filming them.

 
 
Apr 27 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Yemeni security official says coast guard forces have freed a hijacked Yemeni oil tanker and arrested 11 pirates.

 
 
Apr 26 2009 by AP0 Comments

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 studies, one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Arab world is fighting for its surviv

 
 
Apr 25 2009 by AP0 Comments

A U.S. Navy spokesman says a German-owned ship has been hijacked in the pirate-infested waters between Somalia and Yemen.

 
 
Apr 23 2009 by AP0 Comments

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 detainee’s brother said Thursday.

 
 
Apr 16 2009 by AP0 Comments

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 obligatory bride-price.

 
 
Mar 18 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Yemeni security official says a suicide bomber has hit a convoy carrying the South Korean ambassador, but no one was hurt.

 
 
Mar 16 2009 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Mar 15 2009 by AP0 Comments

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 foreigners visiting this poor Arab country that has both famed historic sites and a strong al-Qa

 
 
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