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TWO months after the end of Yemen's unity war, President Ali Abdullah Salih is consolidating his position with a series of political and constitutional changes aimed at ensuring the recent conflict will not be repeated.
At a televised ceremony last month army officers handed their party membership…
Yemen's most famous prisoner, Mansour Rajih, has been released after 15 years under the shadow of execution. The poet and political writer was arrested in 1983 following the murder of Sheikh Ahmed al-Sarari. After a trial which is now widely regarded as flawed, he was sentenced to death.
Mr Rajih's…
PRESIDENT Salih's visit to Jeddah on June 5-7 was his first since Yemeni-Saudi relations were soured by the Gulf crisis in 1990. Whether this marks the final breaking of the ice or just a temporary thaw remains to be seen. Although Sana'a radio described the trip as "successful and fruitful", the…
SANA'A Radio warned yesterday that the forces of the northern Yemen leader, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, will continue to bomb the southern city of Aden, and advised civilians to stay away from strategic targets.
A southern military statement said northern Yemeni forces ringing the port city…
Resolution on the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq, adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council on 8 November 2002. Seestatementbelow issued by Russia, China and France. See alsoearlier US draftof the resolution.
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The Security Council,
Recalling all its previous relevant…
FOUR MONTHS of shuttle diplomacy by the French president's special envoy bore fruit on May 1 when Yemen and Eritrea finally agreed to take their Red Sea island dispute to arbitration. As Middle East International went to press, preparations were under way for a formal signing ceremony, amid Yemeni…
USAMA bin Laden has been blamed for a "Millennium plot" which allegedly aimed to hit targets in at least three countries last January.
The claim, by Richard Clarke, President Clinton’s top terrorism adviser, came just a few days before four men went on trial in New York accused of conspiring with…
Speaking in Cincinatti, Ohio, President George Bush gave what the White House described as "a comprehensive assessment of the threat Saddam Hussein's regime poses to the security of the United States and the World and our commitment to confront it".
7 October 2002
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Letter from the Iraqi government to the United Nations, dated 13 November 2002, accepting Security Council resolution 1441 on the return of weapons inspectors. The text below is a translation distributed to the media by the Iraqi government.
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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the…
YEMEN is seeking to heal the rift with Saudi Arabia which developed during the Gulf crisis. Vice-President Ali Salim al-Baid said in London yesterday that long-term relations between the two countries 'shouldn't be damaged by a single incident which wasn't really of our own making'.
An estimated…
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
