A Saudi-led air campaign against Huthi rebels in Yemen has been "very successful" and gone "beyond its goals," Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States said Wednesday./ In the past three weeks, the campaign "has been able to degrade and destroy much of the military infrastructure that ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said on Wednesday the fighting in Yemen could engulf the region in war, and suggested after talks in Washington that U.S. leaders shared his concerns and "want to stop this conflict as soon as possible." Abadi, who met with U.S. ...
A Houthi Shi'ite rebel with Yemen's flag painted on his face chants slogans during a rally in the capital, Sana'a, Yemen./ Iran has proposed a peace plan to end the conflict in Yemen, but the idea has received little support from regional rivals like Saudi Arabia. They accuse Tehran of backing ...
Iran's Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) arrives at the Foreign Ministry in Lisbon April 15, 2015./ A Houthi militant stands guard on a wall outside the headquarters of the United Nations in Sanaa April 15, 2015./ (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday that his country would use all its ...
Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday Tehran will use all its influence in the region and in Yemen to broker a peace deal for Yemen in order to end Saudi-led air strikes against Houthi rebel forces allied to Tehran. "We are a major force in the region and we have relations with all groups in ...
Yemeni fighters loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi stand on a street in Aden's northern district of Dar Saad on April 12, 2015 (AFP Photo/Saleh al-Obeidi)/ Aden (AFP) - Saudi-led coalition air strikes hit rebel targets in Yemen's main southern city of Aden on Wednesday after overnight ...
Saudi military spokesman Ahmed Asiri briefs journalists on the Saudi-led coalition's strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, during a press conference, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)/ CAIRO (AP) — Egypt and Saudi Arabia are considering whether to hold joint ...
Egypt and Saudi Arabia are considering holding joint military manoeuvres in the kingdom as the allies carry out air strikes in its neighbour Yemen, (AFP Photo/Str)/ Cairo (AFP) - Egypt and Saudi Arabia are considering holding joint military manoeuvres in the kingdom as the allies carry out air ...
Saudi Ambassador Adel Jubeir holds news conference in Washington on April 15. (Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press)/ Saudi ambassador rejects Iranian call for cease-fire in Yemen/ U.N. says 364 civilians killed since Saudi airstrikes began/ Saudi Arabia’s envoy in Washington rejected Iranian ...
Saudi army artillery fire shells towards Yemen from a post close to the Saudi-Yemeni border, in southwestern Saudi Arabia, on April 13, 2015 (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)/ Riyadh (AFP) - A Saudi-led coalition praised a UN arms embargo imposed Tuesday on the Yemeni Shiite rebels it has been bombing ...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 1,200 people fleeing conflict in Yemen have reached the Horn of Africa by boat in the past two weeks, using a route taken in the past by African refugees headed in the opposite direction, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. Despite ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Iran had proposed a peace plan. (File photo: AFP)/ Iran has proposed a peace plan for Yemen that calls for a ceasefire followed by talks by all sides that would be mediated by foreigners, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said ...
The Saudi-led coalition waging air strikes in Yemen takes its offensive to the diplomatic stage Tuesday, seeking a UN demand that rebels retreat and an arms embargo and sanctions against their leaders./ The draft UN Security Council resolution put forward by Jordan and Gulf countries could be ...
Obock (Djibouti) (AFP) - Refugees from war-torn Yemen describe the terror of intense airstrikes as they arrive in the Horn of Africa, where aid agencies are fearing an influx of people./ On the sun-blasted shores of Djibouti, those who have taken a perilous boat ride across the Gulf of Aden ...
Yemeni fighters opposing the Huthi rebels hold a bullet belt in the northern entrance of the southern city of Aden on April 8, 2015 (AFP Photo/Saleh Al-Obeidi)/ Madrid (AFP) - Iran has proposed a peace plan for Yemen that calls for a ceasefire followed by talks by all sides that would be ...
Militiamen in southern Yemen said on Tuesday they had pushed back Iranian-allied Houthi rebels on several fronts, three weeks into a Saudi-led air strikes against the northern movement of Shi'ite Muslim fighters. In the southern port city of Aden, which has seen nearly three weeks of fierce ...
Iran's foreign minister laid out a four-point Yemen peace plan on Tuesday including dialogue and humanitarian aid, and renewed his call for an end to Saudi-led air strikes against the Houthi rebel force allied to Tehran. The proposal is likely to anger Saudi Arabia and other powers which accuse ...
Iran’s foreign minister laid out a four-point Yemen peace plan on Tuesday including dialogue and humanitarian aid, and renewed his call for an end to Saudi-led air strikes against the Houthi rebel force allied to Tehran. The proposal is likely to anger Saudi Arabia and other powers which accuse ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday imposed an arms embargo targeting the Iran-allied Houthi rebels who rule most of Yemen and blacklisted the son of the country's former president and a Houthi leader after council veto-power Russia abstained. The Security ...
Houthis appear to be on defensive on several fronts ADEN, April 14 (Reuters) - Iran proposed a peace plan for Yemen on Tuesday and called for an end to Saudi-led air strikes against Houthi rebels allied to Tehran, but the move was likely to draw a cool response from Riyadh. On the battlefront, ...
Yemen's Houthi-led Supreme Revolutionary Committee condemned on Tuesday a United Nations Security Council resolution imposing an arms embargo on the group, saying the decision supported "aggression". In a news flash on the group's official television channel, the governing body said it "calls on ...
RIYADH/ADEN (Reuters) - By appointing the widely-respected Khaled Bahah as his deputy, Yemen's president and his Saudi backers seek to shore up a government-in-exile whose legitimacy is central to Riyadh's military campaign against Iran-allied Houthi rebels. While President Abd-Rabbu Mansour ...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Street battles and air raids are driving ever more Yemenis from their homes, the United Nations said Tuesday, as the worsening conflict forced the country's liquefied natural gas company to shut down production./ From Geneva, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday blacklisted the son of Yemen's former president and a Houthi leader, and effectively imposed an arms embargo on the Iran-allied Houthi rebels who rule most of the country. The council voted 14 in favor. Russia abstained, ...
The Yemen conflict, though rooted in local rivalries, has become a proxy battlefield for regional powers Sunni-ruled Saudi and mainly Shiiite Iran./ Iran proposed a peace plan for Yemen on Tuesday and called for an end to Saudi-led air strikes against Houthi rebels allied to Tehran, but the move ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday placed sanctions on a leader of the Iran-allied Houthi rebels who now control most of Yemen, the Treasury Department said. Washington also sanctioned Ahmed Saleh, the former head of Yemen's Republican Guard. The sanctions follow an arms embargo ...
-Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Tuesday proposed a four-point plan, including an immediate cease-fire, aimed at resolving the continuing military conflict in Yemen./ Mr. Zarif said the plan also allows for much-needed humanitarian assistance, an "intra-Yemeni" dialogue among local ...
MADRID (AP) — Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has called for a peace plan for war-torn Yemen that includes humanitarian aid, dialogue and the formation of a broad-based Yemeni government after a proposed cease-fire already rejected by Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has been carrying out ...
Iran will submit a four-point peace plan for resolving the crisis in Yemen to the United Nations on Wednesday, Iran's English-language television channel Press TV reported on Tuesday. The channel gave no further details. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, speaking in Madrid on ...
point plan includes an immediate cease-fire, humanitarian assistance/ MADRID—Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Tuesday proposed a four-point plan, including an immediate cease-fire, aimed at resolving the continuing military conflict in Yemen. Mr. Zarif said the plan also allows for ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council scheduled a vote Tuesday on a draft resolution that would impose an arms embargo on leaders of Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebels and their key supporters, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his son./ The resolution is aimed at ending the Houthis ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council is due to vote on Tuesday on a resolution to blacklist the son of Yemen's former president and a Houthi leader and effectively impose an arms embargo on the rebels who rule most of the country, diplomats said. It was unclear how Russia would ...
Iran's foreign minister called Tuesday for a peace plan for war-torn Yemen that includes humanitarian aid, dialogue and the formation of a broad-based Yemeni government after a proposed cease-fire already rejected by Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has been carrying out airstrikes in Yemen against ...
Iran on Monday urged the formation of a new Yemeni government and offered to assist in a political transition, comments likely to anger Saudi Arabia, which is backing Yemen’s president against a rebel force allied with Iran. The Houthi advance towards the Yemeni city of Aden forced President ...
Two Australians and an American missing in Baja California/ MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican authorities have located three bodies in the state of Baja California where one American and two Australian tourists were reported missing, according to three sources with knowledge of the investigation. ...
Unions representing workers at steel giant Tata say talks with the company over its plans to shut down blast furnaces at its biggest plant have broken down. Community, the GMB and Unite said in a joint statement that the company was “completely disregarding” the impact of its plans on the ...
Flooding due to heavy rains in the city of Encantado/ SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The outlook for soy production in one of Brazil's biggest farm states is deteriorating quickly after heavy rains disrupted harvesting with about a quarter of fields left to reap from in Rio Grande do Sul. The situation ...
Huawei has revealed its a new range of camera phones - with the new Pura series replacing the P family of handsets which were first launched 12 years ago. The most notable feature of the new flagship Huawei Pura70 Ultra is a distinctive rear camera set-up with a massive-looking main lens which ...
If you’re on blood pressure or blood sugar-lowering meds, you’ll want to read this./ Ginger is a versatile ingredient that wears many hats—it is a food, a spice, a flavor enhancer and a medicinal ingredient. This rhizome is known for adding a pungent kick and pleasant aroma to both The plant has ...
Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, is shown at a company event in Cupertino/ By Stephen Nellis, Max A. Cherney and Yuvraj Malik (Reuters) - Apple's quarterly results and forecast beat modest expectations on Thursday, as the iPhone maker unveiled a record share buyback program, sending its stock up 6% in ...
Nigeriens demonstrate to protest against the U.S. military presence in Niamey/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting U.S. troops, a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters, a move that follows a decision by Niger's junta to expel U ...
Israeli officials are increasingly concerned that the UN's top criminal court is planning to seek arrest warrants for their military and political leaders on suspicion of war crimes./ Reports suggest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be among them./ The International Criminal Court (ICC) ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A scuba dive boat captain was scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge Thursday on a conviction of criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel nearly five years ago. was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history, and prompted changes ...
- Bitcoin’s tumble is piquing the interest of investors who view pronounced swings in the digital token as a possible precursor for broader changes in risk appetite in global markets./ The cryptocurrency has shed about 4% in the past two days following a near 16% plunge in April, the worst ...