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Unpaid teachers strike in Houthi-controlled areas

  • AL-MUKALLA: Yemeni teachers have gone on strike in Houthi-controlled areas as outrage grows over the militia’s failure to pay public employees. In a rare public protest, teachers in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and other major cities skipped classes to pressure the Houthis to pay their salari...
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How ‘a monumental catastrophe’ was averted with offloading of Safer near Yemen’s Red Sea coast

  • DUBAI: The news that the threat of a massive oil spill in the Red Sea has receded with the transfer of more than a million barrels of oil from the FSO Safer, a dilapidated storage vessel lying off the coast of Yemen, has come as a huge relief for nearby countries, UN officials and environmental...
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Cuts to foreign aid hurt donor countries as well as the recipients

  • It is a rare occasion indeed when the source of the most critical verdict on a particular government policy is the minister in charge of the very policy that is found to be falling far short of what is desired and what the government previously committed itself to. Andrew Mitchell, the British...
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Hamtramck, Michigan likely to remain America’s only all-Muslim-governed city

  • CHICAGO: Muslims in America’s only all-Muslim-governed city of Hamtramck, Michigan will likely retain their unanimous control over the Midwest city’s future after voters selected this past week five Muslims to compete in the November elections for three city council seats. On Tuesday, Aug. 8,...
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White House: There will be restrictions on any unfrozen Iranian funds

  • WASHINGTON: The White House stressed on Friday that there would be restrictions on what Iran could do with any funds unfrozen under an emerging agreement that has led to the release of five Americans from prison to house arrest in Tehran. White House spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that...
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Saudi foreign ministry welcomes UN announcement of successful Safer tanker mission

  • RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s ministry of foreign affairs welcomed on Friday the UN announcement that the transfer of more than one million barrels of oil from the dilapidated Yemeni tanker FSO Safer was successful, Al-Ekhbariya reported.  The operation, which saw 1.14 million barrels...
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Decaying Yemen tanker no longer a ‘ticking time bomb’ after 1m barrels of oil removed

  • NEW YORK CITY: The UN on Friday said the imminent threat of a massive oil spill in the Red Sea had been averted, after more than a million barrels of oil were successfully transferred to a salvage ship from the Safer, a decaying storage vessel moored off the coast of Yemen for years that had be...
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UN says 5 staff members kidnapped in Yemen 18 months ago walk free

  • CAIRO: The United Nations said Friday that five staff members who were kidnapped in Yemen 18 months ago have walked free. In a brief statement, UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said that all “available information suggests that all five colleagues are in good health.” Haq named the freed men as Akm...
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Yemeni military leader dies in Al-Qaeda roadside blast

  • AL-MUKALLA, Yemen: A Yemeni military commander at the forefront of the fight against terror groups in Yemen for more than a decade was killed in a blast from an explosive device planted by Al-Qaeda in southern Yemen on Thursday. Brig. Abdul Latif Al-Sayed, commander of the Security Belt force...
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KSrelief chief meets Dutch envoy in Riyadh

  • RIYADH: Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, supervisor-general of Saudi Arabia’s aid agency KSrelief, met the Dutch ambassador to the Kingdom, Janet Alberda, at the center’s headquarters in Riyadh on Wednesday.  During the meeting, they discussed matters of common interest related to humanitarian a...
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