Abdulmalek al-Huthi, leader of Yemen's Shiite rebels who bear his name, accused the exiled government Tuesday of attempting to impose its own agenda on the United Nations and peace talks in Geneva./ "They tried to impose their own agenda," said Huthi, in a televised speech on the Iran-backed ...
Yemen's exiled president Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi fled to the Saudi capital Riyadh in March 2015 (AFP Photo/)/ Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - Yemen's exiled president reiterated Tuesday that his government will only discuss with rebels at this week's UN-sponsored peace talks a Security Council ...
A Yemeni rebel delegation finally arrived in Geneva Tuesday for the second day of UN-backed peace talks after being stranded in Djibouti and accused Saudi Arabia of trying to torpedo the negotiations./ The absence of the Iran-backed rebels at the start of the high-stakes talks that were launched ...
A Yemeni delegate to the U.N. peace talks said on Tuesday that all sides agree there must be a ceasefire to halt nearly three months of bloodshed, but that no deal has been reached yet. Ghaleb Al-Mutlak, from the southern separatist movement, said that the proposed ceasefire would be for a ...
Warring Yemeni powers signaled mutual hostility at the start of talks on Tuesday aimed at ending a war that has caused a humanitarian disaster, drawn in regional rivals and threatened the Arabian peninsula country with permanent division. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the Geneva ...
Yemeni supporters of the Shiite Huthi movement raise their weapons during a rally in the capital Sanaa on June 14, 2015 (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)/ United Nations (United States) (AFP) - A plane carrying a delegation of Yemeni rebels scheduled to attend peace negotiations for their war-torn ...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A delegation of Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebels departed for Geneva on a U.N.-chartered plane Monday to take part in peace talks after a delay in Djibouti that the rebels blamed on Egypt, a member of the Saudi-led coalition that has been targeting them with airstrikes since ...
Yemen has been wracked by conflict between the rebels and exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi's internationally recognised government (AFP Photo/Saleh al-Obeidi)/ Geneva (AFP) - Yemeni Foreign Minister Riad Yassin voiced pessimism Monday as high stakes talks aimed at trying to resolve his ...
Mehr/ Iran's Deputy Minister for Arab and Foreign Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian attends a news conference in Moscow, September 10, 2013./ Iran's deputy foreign minister for Middle East affairs will discuss Yemen's conflict at a meeting of a pan-Islamic body hosted by its regional rival Saudi ...
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for an immediate two-week humanitarian pause in Yemen to mark Ramadan as talks got under way in Geneva to try and resolve the bloody conflict. "I hope this week starts the beginning of the end of the fighting," Ban said. "Ramadan begins in two days," he ...
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition bombarded Yemen's capital Sanaa overnight, a Reuters witness said, as the country's warring factions prepared for talks due to start in Geneva on Monday. Air strikes caused large explosions before dawn and hit locations south and west of the city as part of ...
TEHRAN – The Iranian deputy foreign minister for Middle East affairs will discuss the Yemeni conflict at a meeting of a pan-Islamic body hosted by Saudi Arabia, the Iranian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday. Iran has called on Saudi Arabia to stop its military attacks against Yemen, ...
Yemen's warring factions will come together for the first time in Geneva Monday in a bid to resolve the bloody conflict between Iran-backed Shiite rebels and the government of exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi./ The UN's peace envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said in a statement ...
Yemeni Foreign Minister Reyad Yassin Abdulla said on Monday his government could discuss a limited ceasefire with Houthis, but only if the Iran-backed militia withdrew from cities, released more than 6,000 prisoners and complied with a U.N. resolution. Earlier U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ...
The head of the United Nations opened peace talks on Yemen on Monday with a call for a humanitarian ceasefire, saying the country was on the verge of a collapse that the Middle East could not withstand./ Ban Ki-moon said the truce, called to mark the start of the holy month of Ramadan, should ...
Iranian Official To Attend Saudi Meeting On Yemen's Conflict/ A top Iranian official will attend a meeting in Saudi Arabia on the conflict in Yemen. Iran's Mehr news agency says Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Iran's deputy foreign minister for Middle East affairs, will attend the one-day special ...
Iran's deputy foreign minister for Middle East affairs will discuss Yemen's conflict at a meeting of a pan-Islamic body in Saudi Arabia, the Iranian Mehr news agency reported on Monday. Hossein Amir Abdollahian will join other officials from the Islamic world at a one-day extraordinary meeting ...
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 ...
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 ...
In many southern Lebanese villages, there are no signs of life. People have fled, leaving towns deserted. Israel has been carrying out strikes on southern Lebanon almost daily since Hezbollah - the powerful Lebanese Shia Islamist group - fired rockets at Israel on 8 October in support of Hamas ...
The family of a gay British-Mexican man held in Qatar for alleged drug offences has given further details of what they say was a "honeytrap" operation using the gay dating app, Grindr./ Manuel Guerrero Aviña was approached online by a man called "Gio" and they arranged to meet - but he was ...
Joie Henney hugs his emotional support alligator named Wally, Jan. 22, 2019, inside their home in York Haven, Pa. Henney credits Wally for helping relieve his depression for nearly a decade, says he's searching for the reptile after it went missing during a vacation to the coast of Georgia. ...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000, federal workplace safety officials said Wednesday. The Occupational Safety and ...