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Nujood Ali is 10 years old, but she already has been married and divorced. It was an arranged marriage in which she said a husband three times her age routinely beat and raped her.
The U.S. military will seek the death penalty against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, making him the first person charged in the United States for the attack on the USS Cole, an Air Force general said Monday.
A man opened fire at a Shiite mosque Friday in northern Yemen, killing six and wounding 12, state-run news agency SABA said. Three are in critical condition, the report said.
The World Bank is making $1.2 billion available in grants and loans to combat the global food crisis, including $200 million for those most at risk in the world's poorest countries.
Two cargo ships have been hijacked in the Gulf of Aden between Yemen and Somalia, a Kenyan maritime official said Thursday.
Scientists say they have found dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula, a discovery they say may shed more light on where dinosaurs lived, their migration patterns and how they evolved they way they did
Intensifying violence, food shortages and widespread drought are driving an increasing number of Somalis to seek asylum in Yemen, the United Nations' refugee agency said Tuesday.
A third day of fighting between Shiite Muslim militants and government troops in northwestern Yemen killed more than 20 people Sunday, government and rebel officials reported.
The government of Yemen dispatched troops and artillery to the city of Saada on Saturday after violence involving Shiite militants left 18 people dead and 48 others injured over a 24-hour period, authorities said.
An explosion rocked the entrance of a Yemeni city on Friday, causing several deaths and injuries, witnesses told CNN.
Nujood Ali is 10 years old, but she already has been married and divorced. It was an arranged marriage in which she said a husband three times her age routinely beat and raped her.
The U.S. military will seek the death penalty against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, making him the first person charged in the United States for the attack on the USS Cole, an Air Force general said Monday.
A man opened fire at a Shiite mosque Friday in northern Yemen, killing six and wounding 12, state-run news agency SABA said. Three are in critical condition, the report said.
The World Bank is making $1.2 billion available in grants and loans to combat the global food crisis, including $200 million for those most at risk in the world's poorest countries.
Two cargo ships have been hijacked in the Gulf of Aden between Yemen and Somalia, a Kenyan maritime official said Thursday.
Scientists say they have found dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula, a discovery they say may shed more light on where dinosaurs lived, their migration patterns and how they evolved they way they did
Intensifying violence, food shortages and widespread drought are driving an increasing number of Somalis to seek asylum in Yemen, the United Nations' refugee agency said Tuesday.
A third day of fighting between Shiite Muslim militants and government troops in northwestern Yemen killed more than 20 people Sunday, government and rebel officials reported.
The government of Yemen dispatched troops and artillery to the city of Saada on Saturday after violence involving Shiite militants left 18 people dead and 48 others injured over a 24-hour period, authorities said.
An explosion rocked the entrance of a Yemeni city on Friday, causing several deaths and injuries, witnesses told CNN.
Pirates who seized a Spanish fishing boat Sunday off the coast of Somalia have apparently demanded money for the release of the 26 crew members, Spanish state radio RNE said Monday.
Stocks were poised to struggle at Monday's open, as investors mulled weaker-than-expected earnings from Bank of America and the effect of a record trading high for oil prices following an attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen.
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The United States ordered non-emergency employees of its embassy in Yemen to leave the country Monday.
Jordan, Iraq and Yemen announced at the last minute Friday that their top leaders will not attend this weekend's Arab summit in Damascus
An American cargo ship under contract to the U.S. Navy opened fire on a small Egyptian boat while moving through the Suez Canal, the U.S. military said Tuesday
The American Embassy in Yemen was the target of a mortar attack Tuesday, the U.S. State Department said, contradicting a suggestion from the Yemeni government the attack targeted a school where 13 were injured.
Suspected al Qaeda militants opened fire on a convoy of tourists in a remote desert mountain valley Friday, killing two Belgian women and their Yemeni driver.
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GCC Single Currency January 1st will witness the launch of a Gulf common market hoping to encourage co-operation within the Gulf. The next step is to launch a single currency ala the Euro by 2010. This week for Marketplace Middle East, Jim Boulden reports from Doha on how a single currency could help business and investment in the region.
A French journalist kidnapped while producing a television documentary about human trafficking in Somalia said he is "quite okay," and has been allowed to use a mobile phone to talk to his girlfriend in France, according to a short phone interview he gave to a Somali journalist.
Around 200 Africans migrants are feared dead after two boats they were traveling in sank off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday.
More than 200 Saudi and foreign militants have been arrested over their alleged involvement in various plots, including assassinations and a planned attack on an oil facility, Saudi officials say.
Oil prices fell Wednesday after a weekly report showed that U.S. supplies fell less than expected, although crude still remained within striking distance of $100 a barrel.
Oil prices set another record high Tuesday, jumping over $2 on fears of dwindling supplies in the United States, projections for strong worldwide demand and a falling U.S. dollar.
A U.S. destroyer has entered Somali territorial waters in pursuit of a Japanese-owned ship loaded with benzene that was hijacked by pirates over the weekend, military officials said Monday.
U.S. law enforcement officials Friday blasted Yemen's release of one of the leaders of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 U.S. sailors.
Riot police fired bullets and tear gas Saturday to disperse thousands of retired officers and soldiers in southern Yemen who gathered to demand a place in the country's military again, police and protesters said.
The U.S. transferred six Guantanamo Bay prisoners back to their home countries, including one who now may face abuse in Tunisia for nonviolent political activities
Somalian Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi survived a suicide vehicle bomb blast that heavily damaged his home Sunday, his spokesman said.
Six Islamic militants -- including a British and American -- were killed in northern Somalia over the weekend during joint local and U.S. military attacks targeting militants, a regional official told reporters during a Sunday news conference.
A suspect in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen said he was tortured into admitting responsibility for that attack and others, according to a hearing transcript the Pentagon released Friday.
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Yemen authorities thwarted attempts by suicide bombers to blow up two oil facilities with explosive-laden cars, killing both attackers Friday, an official Yemeni source said, according to the state-run Saba news agency.
North American farmers are claiming $1 billion in damages from AWB, alleging the Australian wheat exporter used bribery and other corrupt activities to corner grain markets, The Australian Associated Press reports.
Yemen's government said Thursday that eight of the men who staged a daring escape from prison earlier this year have been captured or surrendered.
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Soccer balls, broomsticks and pieces of a broken fan were used to dig the tunnel through which 23 Yemeni fugitives, including members of al Qaeda, escaped prison this month, according to a report by the Yemeni government.
The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been placed on an FBI list of top terrorism suspects who haven't been charged with crimes in the United States but are wanted for questioning.
International warships under the command of the U.S. Navy moved Thursday into waters off Yemen, attempting to block possible escape routes for 23 prisoners who escaped last week, a senior U.S. military official said.
Another terrorist wanted in the United States was identified among the escapees from a Yemeni prison last week, the FBI said Wednesday.
Last week's jailbreak in Yemen of convicted terrorists, including the man considered to be the mastermind of the attack on the destroyer USS Cole, poses "a serious problem," U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday.
Interpol has issued "an urgent global security alert" after 23 "dangerous individuals" -- including a man identified as the mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole in 2000 -- escaped from a Yemeni prison.
Italians rejoiced Sunday with the news that four of their countrymen had been released by separate groups of kidnappers in Yemen and Gaza.
An Italian man who was abducted in the Gaza town of Khan Yunis has been released, Palestinian security sources say.
Five German citizens taken hostage in Yemen earlier this week have been freed, the German foreign minister has said.
The German government says it is confident a former foreign minister and his family who were kidnapped in Yemen will be freed this week.
A former German deputy foreign minister and his family are missing in Yemen, German officials said Wednesday, and there are reports that they were kidnapped.
The United States and at least 10 other nations are involved in negotiations that could drop the detainee population at Guantanamo Bay by 80 percent -- or 410 people -- within the coming months, State Department officials said.
A federal judge Thursday sentenced a Yemeni Muslim cleric who once called himself Osama bin Laden's spiritual adviser to the maximum 75 years for conspiring to support al Qaeda and Hamas.
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U.S. and British military and law enforcement officials are investigating how a man was able to sneak on board the USS Harry S. Truman last month while the aircraft carrier was making a port call in Portsmouth, England.
Thursday's blasts outside the British Consulate in New York are the latest in a long line of attempted strikes at Britain's diplomatic posts abroad.
A New York jury Thursday convicted a Muslim cleric from Yemen of conspiring to aid the terrorist groups al Qaeda and Hamas.
A Yemeni appeals court on Saturday upheld a death sentence for a man convicted of being the mastermind behind the bombing of the USS Cole, but reduced a death sentence given to a second man, a government official told CNN.
An FBI informant who set himself on fire in a suicide attempt Monday has been upgraded to serious condition at Washington Hospital Center, a spokesman said. He tried to ignite himself in front of the White House.
A Yemeni court has handed down death sentences to two men -- one currently in U.S. custody -- for their roles in the bombing of the USS Cole, an official source in San'a said.
A Yemeni court has convicted 15 al Qaeda-linked militants on terror charges, news agencies report.
British authorities say they have taken a 47-year-old man -- identified in media reports as hard-line Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Mazri -- into custody on suspicion of being involved in terrorism as part of a domestic investigation.
A self-confessed member of al Qaeda accused of conspiracy against the United States went before a military tribunal Thursday, the third such hearing in as many days.
An Australian detainee accused of fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan was arraigned before a military commission Wednesday, where he pleaded "not guilty" to all charges.
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Following is a transcript of a news conference held Tuesday by James Comey, deputy attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, concerning Jose Padilla.
Controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been arrested in London on an extradition warrant issued by the U.S. government and is due in court later Thursday to answers charges relating to terrorism.
Legal experts in Britain say the extradition of controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to the U.S. on charges relating to terrorism could take many months.
Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, the man arrested Thursday in London, is one of the most controversial Muslim figures in Britain.
Controversial UK-based Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been charged with providing material support to terrorists and aiding a kidnapping in an 11-count U.S. indictment released in New York Thursday.
U.S. President George W. Bush has invited the leaders of Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan and Yemen to meet with G-8 leaders at next month's summit in the coastal resort town of Sea Island, in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Many Arabic newspapers published the story of the beheading of U.S. civilian Nick Berg on Wednesday -- but all did so without commenting and the amount of coverage varied greatly.
Yemeni security forces have identified one of two men arrested Saturday as a suspect in the attack on the USS Cole in October 2000, the Interior Ministry said.
A top al Qaeda operative that U.S. authorities have linked to the USS Cole attack, surrendered after a shoot-out with Yemeni security forces, according to Yemen's Interior Ministry.
Waves of pilgrims are taking part in devil-stoning rituals at the Hajj pilgrimage, a day after 244 people were crushed to death during the same rites.
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