Yemen
Finnish couple Atte (R) and Leila Kaleva attend a press conference in Helsinki, Finland on May 16, 2013. The Finnish couple and an Austrian student Dominik Neubauer (not pictured) were seized in Sanaa, Yemen on December 21.
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The situation in Yemen is still fluid. Al-Qaida's affiliate there is still considered dangerous and focused on targeting the U.S. We're not at the point where the political situation there is stable.
We expect drone attacks soon, like in Yemen, to begin against Al-Qaeda members
CIA asked AP not to expose Yemen terror plot bust until White House was ready to crow about it publicly.More quotes »
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Suspected US drone in Yemen kills 4 militants
to several research groups and The Associated Press's own reporting, there has been a dramatic rise in such drone strikes in Yemen since the country's new U.S.-backed president assumed power early last year.Washington says al-Qaida in Yemen is among the group's Read more »
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Red Cross says 3 workers kidnapped in Yemen
incident last week.But she declined to give more information, saying it could endanger the negotiations and put lives at risk.Yemen's president warned last week that the al-Qaida branch in the country was expanding and using assassinations and abductions of Read more »
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Mideast youth need 46 million jobs by 2020
Spring countries, anywhere from 40 to 60 percent of the population are estimated to be under 25, with the biggest youth bulge in Yemen and the smallest in Tunisia.Fertility rates, while falling, drive the world's second highest rate of population growth, of Read more »
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Militants kill 3 Yemeni air force pilots near base
group of U.S. military advisers helping authorities fight al-Qaida 's branch in Yemen.The U.S. considers the terror network's Yemeni affiliate to be its most dangerous offshoot.The Yemeni officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized Read more »
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Al-Qaida denies its No. 2 in Yemen was killed
-- Al-Qaida in Yemen has posted a statement on militant websites saying that its second-most senior commander has not been killed. It's the second time the group has denied Saeed al-Shihri's death.The Saudi national, who fought in Afghanistan and spent six Read more »
Around the web
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IMF says Egypt budget gap worrying, urges Yemen to finalise economic programme
that the measures that are proposed will be implemented." The IMF has also been in talks to provide a fresh loan to impoverished Yemen, of around $500 million, but Ahmed said the government there first needed to agree on its economic programme, which he described 10:21 AM from Aswat Masriya Read more »
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Saudi Arabia executes five Yemenis
robberies. Their bodies were reportedly left hanging in public following the execution in the south-western town of Jizan, near the Yemen border. Murder, armed robbery, drug trafficking, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's Sharia 7:25 AM from BBC News Read more »
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U.S. races to beef up diplomats’ protection
and were not made public. The department is racing to fulfill the recommendations as threats against U.S. embassies in Egypt, Yemen and other hazardous places have sharply increased in recent months. But the department’s ability to correct the security flaws, 5:36 AM from Arkansas Online Read more »
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KF distributes food aid in Yemen
2013 SANAA - The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation (KF) is exerting relentless efforts to reach the poorest families in Yemen in order to deliver food aid as per then directives of the President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyans AED 500m 1:27 AM from Khaleej Times Read more »
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CIA Drones: Pentagon To Take Over Some Operations, Sources Say
some of them said it would occur in stages. Drone strikes in Yemen, where the U.S. military already conducts operations with Yemeni forces, would be run by the armed forces, officials said. But for the time-being U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan would continue 1:12 AM from The Huffington Post Read more »
