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Iraq confirms full support for national dialogue in Yemen
Baghdad: Iraq has confirmed its full support for the national dialogue in Yemen to achieve security and stability in the war-torn country. During a meeting with visiting Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad…
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UN food agency employee killed in Yemen’s Taiz
Aden: Unidentified gunmen shot dead an employee of the UN World Food Programme in Yemen’s southwestern province of Taiz, a security official told the media. “Assailants riding a motorcycle targeted and killed…
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Yemen reopens Ghaidah airport after 9-yr suspension due to war
Sanaa: The government in Yemen announced the reopening of Al Ghaydah Airport in the country’s eastern province of Al Mahrah after a nine-year suspension due to the ongoing civil war. The airport’s…
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Gunmen kill senior police officer in Yemen’s Taiz province
Aden: Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a senior police officer of Yemen’s government forces in the southwestern province of Taiz, a local government official said. The officer, identified as Salah Amrany, was…
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Yemeni govt threatens to shut Sanaa Airport over Houthi’s economic war
Yemen authorities have threatened to shut operations at the Sanaa International Airport and restrict movements through Hodeidah port unless the Iran-backed Houthis militia does not stop the “economic war” and end their…
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Yemen’s Houthi authorities ban Swedish imports over Quran desecration row
Yemen’s Houthi movement has banned Swedish imports in protest against the burning of a copy of the holy Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm. Mohammad Sharaf Al-Mutahhar, the trade minister for the…
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Prominent politician assassinated in Yemen
Sanaa: A group of unidentfied assailants gunned down a prominent politician in Yemen’s southwestern province of Taiz, a local security official said. The assassination took place in the port city of Mocha…
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Four govt soldiers killed in Houthi drone attack in Yemen
Aden: Four Yemeni government soldiers were killed in the southern province of Dhalea in a drone attack carried out by the Houthi militia, a military official told media. The Houthi militia deployed…
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Haj 2023: King Salman to host families of martyrs in Yemen operation
Riyadh: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Sunday issued a directive to host 2,000 pilgrims from families of those martyred in the Decisive Storm…
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Yemeni govt, Houthis conclude prisoner swap talks with ‘positive’ results
Sanaa: The Yemeni government and the Houthi militia concluded the three-day UN-sponsored talks in Jordan on the prisoner swap issue with “positive” outcomes. Majed Fadayel, spokesman for the Yemeni government delegation, told…
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First flight from Yemen carrying Haj pilgrims arrives in Saudi Arabia since 2016
Riyadh: The first commercial flight from Yemeni capital Sana’a carrying 270 Haj pilgrims has arrived at Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The flight,…
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Yemeni govt, Houthis begin new round of prisoner swap talks
Amman: A fresh round of negotiations between the Yemeni government and the Houthi militia kicked of the Jordanian capital of Amman under the patronage of the UN. In the two-day talks which will…
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2 Yemeni soldiers killed in Al-Qaeda attack in Shabwa
Aden: Two Yemeni soldiers were killed and five others injured in an attack carried out by militants of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group in the country’s oil-rich southern province of Shabwa, a government…
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Houthi ‘economic war’ threatens peace prospects, Yemeni PM says
Aden: Yemen’s Prime Minister Maeen Abdul-Malik has warned that the “economic war” waged by the Houthi rebels against his government jeopardises prospects for peace in the war-ravaged Arab country. Speaking during a…
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UN envoy hails boost in flights connecting Yemen, Jordan
Aden: The UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, has welcomed a recent increase in flights between Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, and Amman, the capital of Jordan. In an official press statement…
