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We've read a lot lately about the AP "scandal." In short, on May 7, 2012, the Associated Press released a story that disclosed classified details...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Yemen, home to what Washington considers al Qaeda's most dangerous wing, has the chance of a bright future, the top U.N. official in the country said on Thursday, but needs help to deal with a major humanitarian crisis that threatens its stability.

Yemen is facing a worsening humanitarian situation which could destabilize the country’s gains on the political front, a senior United Nations relief official warned today, noting that half of the country’s 24 million people are in need of assistance.

Three staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who had been held since the beginning of the week by armed individuals in the vicinity of Ja’ar, in Abyan governorate, are now safely back with their colleagues in Aden.

  ALYSSA ROHRICHT   On Monday, the Associated Press revealed that the Department of Justice used subpoenas to obtain phone records of its editors and reporters from April and May 2012. The records were obtained due to the investigation and supposed leak to the AP last year that the CIA had ”thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy...

The Associated Press is outraged that the Justice Department has been secretly rummaging through its telephone records, and who can blame it? But what really matters is what it means for all the rest of us.

The state of the endangered Arabian leopard may be a bellwether for Yemen and its people.    

La Fuerza Naval estadounidense lanzó hoy por primera vez con éxito desde un portaaviones un avión no tripulado o "drone", que regresó luego a tierra sin problemas, indicó el ejército estadounidense. La prueba se llevó a cabo sobre el portaaviones George H.W. Bush, frente a las costas de Virginia, desde el que despegó un avión no tripulado modelo X-47B. Tras el...

Picass0 writes with distressing news from the AP wire, about the AP: "The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a 'massive and unprecedented intrusion' into how news organizations gather the news." They obtained call records from a number...

Obama administration took records in apparent effort to track down source who disclosed alleged Yemen terrorist plot storyThe Obama administration has opened up a new front in its battle against media freedom by seizing phone records from the offices of the Associated Press news agency in what appeared to be an effort to track down the source who disclosed an alleged Yemen...

La Administración Obama habría intentado obtener así la identidad de una fuente que reveló una operación de la CIA en Yemen

NOTICE - - - - - - - CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO YEMEN On May 16, 2012, by Executive Order 13611, I declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the...

Dear Mr. Speaker: (Mr. President:) Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, within 90 days prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue...

Justice Department obtains two months of records in what AP's top executive calls 'massive and unprecedented intrusion'The US Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather...

A Russian-made Yemeni military jet crashed into a residential district of the capital Sanaa on Monday killing the pilot, an army official saaid.    

Russian-made plane crashes into residential district in the capital, killing the pilot, according to AFP news agency.

La Libye a demandé une assistance technique de la Banque européenne pour la reconstruction et le développement (Berd) pour l'aider à consolider son économie, a annoncé samedi le président de l'institution, Suma Chakrabarti. La Libye et le Yémen ne sont pas membres de la Berd mais ont été invités...

Filipino Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said he recommended to President Benigno Aquino that he withdraw its peacekeeping forces from the Golan Heights after four soldiers were abducted Tuesday. The Syrian rebel Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade said it is holding the soldiers "for their own safety" and has posted two videos of the men to show that they have not...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- The president of Yemen on Thursday warned that the al-Qaida branch in the country was expanding and using assassinations and abductions of foreigners as a way to challenge the central authority....

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni kidnappers have released a Finnish couple and an Austrian man more than four months after they were seized in the capital Sanaa.

Der vor knapp fünf Monaten im Jemen entführte Wiener Dominik Neubauer und zwei weitere finnische Geiseln sind frei. Das Trio sei in der Nacht auf Donnerstag an die omanischen Behörden übergeben worden, berichtete die englischen Online-Ausgabe der "Yemen Times" am Donnerstagabend. Das österreichische Außenministerium gab bisher keine offizielle Stellungnahme ab.

A standard take on how energy affects world politics  is Tom Friedman's "First Law of Petropolitics" -- the belief that high energy prices cause energy exporters to act in more belligerent ways. What if the opposite is the case, however?    The Atlantic's Charles Mann has a long, winding cover story on the growth of non-traditional hydrocarbon energy reserves...

Mr. Hassan al-Yafa'ei, head of the secessionist "Hirak" in al-Houtta South of Yemen, spoke with passion and grief about his region. He is filled with indignation over the unfair discrimination of the South. He is completely convinced, however, that the 1986 civil war is a historical incident that will not be repeated. In his view, the almost 10,000 deaths that...

Payments to thousands who were tortured during 1950s insurgency could open door for other victims of British colonial ruleThe British government is negotiating payments to thousands of Kenyans who were detained and severely mistreated during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency in what would be the first compensation settlement resulting from official crimes committed under imperial...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- The cleric preached in his tiny Yemeni village about the evils of al-Qaida, warning residents to stay away from the group's fighters and their hard-line ideology. The talk worried residents, who feared it would bring retaliation from the militants, and even the cleric's father wanted him to stop....

Lawyer who drafted White House drone policy says US would rather kill suspects than send them to Cuban detention centreThe lawyer who first drew up White House policy on lethal drone strikes has accused the Obama administration of overusing them because of its reluctance to capture prisoners that would otherwise have to be sent to Guantánamo Bay.John Bellinger, who was...

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:01 P.M. EDT MR. CARNEY:  Good afternoon, everyone.  Thanks for being here.  Sorry I am late.  I apologize.  I will go straight to your questions.  Julie. Q    Thank you.  Is there anything you can say at this point about these three other people that have been arrested in Boston, who they are or what they’re going to be...

The CIA is believed to be spearheading the effort to find Yahya Ibrahim, a jihadist who has edited 'Inspire' since its founding editor-in-chief was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011.

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email A Yemeni court order to investigate former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and 11 aides in connection with a March 2011 massacre of anti-government protesters is a step toward justice. On April 27, 2013, a trial court in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, ordered the probe of Saleh and other former ranking officials...

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The long-awaited National Dialogue Conference was successfully launched in Sana’a on 18 March. Meanwhile, political tensions, economic insecurity, social unrest and conflict continued to seriously affect all sectors of the population, leaving the poverty-stricken extremely vulnerable.

SANAA (Reuters) - Awdah al-Shabati has never seen her father Abdulrahman except via video link with a U.S. military prison thousands of miles away from her native Yemen.

Five soldiers killed and many more wounded in Rada despite early warning and increased security measures.

The United Nations refugee agency said today it has recorded the arrival of over 30,000 refugees and migrants to Yemen this year, the majority of them Ethiopians, with the rest coming from Somalia and a small number of other African countries.

Senator Dianne Feinstein said Thursday that the Obama administration should consider lifting a ban on repatriating low-level detainees to Yemen from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.    

Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who is chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, said that it was time to consider lifting a ban on repatriating low-level detainees to Yemen from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.    

Existe una creciente voluntad en los líderes del terrorismo mundial por ejecutar operaciones contra sus enemigos occidentales para compensar así que las víctimas de sus iniciativas sean habitualmente musulmanas

Introduction Thank you, Jason.  During your time at the White House, the President and our team counted on your deep knowledge of energy, climate and national security.   Thank you also to Columbia University.  You chose well in Jason and there could scarcely be a more timely moment for a Center like this one.   Finally, a special thanks to...

Farea al-Muslimi a Yemeni activist and journalist whose village was bombed last week was one of six [...]

Lack of connections to terrorist groups means experts are increasingly seeing the elder Tsarnaev as a self-radicalised lone wolf – underlining the daunting task of piecing together a motiveFederal prosecutors are trying to piece together the complex web of influences that transformed a young man with no confirmed militant training or links, apparently acting with only...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Yemeni court on Tuesday sentenced 11 convicted al-Qaida militants to up to 10 years in prison for forming armed gangs to destabilize the country and planning attacks on foreign embassies and security forces....

Modified version of image from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's account on Russian social network vk.com. Below, an array of perspectives on what legal rights the 19-year-old American citizen suspected of co-executing the Boston Marathon bombings has, and whether law enforcement is obliged to honor those rights under the circumstances: • "If captured, I hope [the] Administration...

SANAA (Reuters) - Two suspected members of al Qaeda were killed on Sunday in a U.S. drone strike on a site used for training members of the Islamist network in central Yemen's Marib province, a security official told Reuters.

SANAA : A suspected US drone strike in western Yemen has killed five Al-Qaeda militants, including a local chief, a security official and witnesses said on Thursday. The raid that took place late Wednesday in Dhamar province, killed Hamid Radman al-Manea, known as al-Radmi, and four of his guards, the official said in a statement carried by Saba state news agency. Witnesses...

Two of group discussed sending remote-controlled toy car carrying bomb under gates of Territorial Army centreTwo British terrorists who discussed plans for an al-Qaida-inspired attack in the UK have been ordered to serve up to 16 years and three months in jail.Zahid Iqbal, 31, and Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, 25, discussed sending a remote-controlled toy car carrying a home-made...

SANAA (Reuters) - An al Qaeda leader and four militants were killed in a U.S. drone strike on their vehicle south of Yemen's capital Sanaa late on Wednesday, a government official said.

South Africa's maths and science education has been ranked second last in the world, ahead of Yemen, according to a World Economic Forum report.

Una revista de Al Qaeda animaba en 2010 a futuros yihadistas solitarios en EEUU a usar ollas a presión en su Guerra Santa

CAIRO (AP) -- Homemade bombs built from pressure cookers, a version of which was used in the Boston Marathon bombings, have been a frequent weapon of militants in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen once published an online manual on how to make one, urging "lone jihadis" to act on their own to carry out attacks....

Zahid Iqbal and Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed planned to use toy in attack on Territorial Army centre in Luton, court hearsTwo men were caught discussing a plot to send a remote-controlled toy car laden with explosives under the gap of a gate at a Territorial Army base, a court has heard.Covert recordings were made of Zahid Iqbal, 31, and Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, 25, discussing...

Google executive chairman says in Guardian interview that technology has potential to 'democratise the ability to fight war'The use of cheap, miniature "everyman" drones needs to be banned by international treaties before such devices fall into the hands of private users including terrorists, the head of Google has said.In an extended interview with the Guardian, Eric...

Iran, Saudi Arabia and Qatar compete for power as the Arabian peninsula’s poorest country struggles to recover after an uprising that began two years ago

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadis efforts to restructure the countrys security sector which the United Nations Security Council confirmed are in line with its resolutions.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi’s efforts to restructure the country’s security sector in line with international agreements and United Nations Security Council resolutions.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch on Friday applauded this week's shake-up of Yemen's army and security leadership but expressed concern that putting key figures into diplomatic posts would make it harder to call them to account for potential past crimes.

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email President Abdu Rabu Hadi’s removal from military command on April 10, 2013, of senior figures linked to abuse was a key step in Yemen’s post-uprising transition. The president’s appointment of some of these key figures to posts in which they would have diplomatic immunity is a source of concern,...

Move directed at allies of ousted president Saleh, who placed loyalists in military posts over his 33-year rule.

Yemen's president removed his predecessor's son and nephews from powerful security posts on Wednesday in the most dramatic step yet in sidelining old regime figures, according to the nation's state-run media.    

President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi announced a purge of Yemen’s military leadership on Wednesday that, if carried out, could sideline relatives of his predecessor, Ali Abdullah Saleh.    

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemen's president removed his predecessor's son and nephews from powerful security posts on Wednesday in the most dramatic step yet in sidelining old regime figures, according to the nation's state-run media....

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's president removed the commander of the elite Republican Guard, a powerful political foe, from the military on Wednesday, state television reported, in an apparent move to unify the divided armed forces under his own control.

A two-day conference at the University of Bahrain in the capital Manama last week was intended to show the United States and the region that the Bahraini government is making progress toward democratic governance and addressing the grievances of the country's majority Shiite population. But the discussions were less than convincing because there was no empirical data or...

La ONG señala que en 2012 se redujeron el número de condenas y de países que las impusieron. Al menos 682 personas murieron ejecutadas el año pasado

Headline Title:  Despite setbacks, a death penalty-free world is closer 10 April 2013 Despite some disappointing setbacks in 2012, the global trend towards ending the death penalty continued, Amnesty International found in its annual review of death...

Marking 'National Nuclear Technology Day,' Iran announced Tuesday that it has launched a new uranium production facility and that operations have begun at two uranium extraction mines. The statement came just days after the April 5 and 6 talks in Kazakhstan between Iran and six world powers again ended in deadlock. Iran's state news agency IRNA reported the country opened...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Al-Qaida in Yemen posted a statement on militant websites Monday saying that its second-most senior commander has not been killed. It was the second time the group has denied Saeed al-Shihri's death....

SANAA (Reuters) - Seven people were killed in clashes between army deserters and tribesmen in south Yemen on Monday, officials and residents said, in another sign of disorder in a country of multiple conflicts next to oil export giant Saudi Arabia.

Redditor Federal Reservations has made a handy post enumerating all the regressive, authoritarian, corporatist policies enacted by the Obama administration in its one-and-a-bit terms. You know, for someone the right wing press likes to call a socialist, Obama sure makes Richard Nixon look like Che Guevara. And what's more, this is only a partial list, [...]    

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Yemen’s Defense Ministry should cooperate in bringing the killer of a journalist and his friend to justice, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the defense minister, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, requesting information about possible military involvement in the case. ...

Dos años no dan para balances, pero la vuelta a la tiranía cívico-militar, especialmente en Egipto, es hoy impensable por mucha agenda oculta que se le presuma al islamismo