Today: YEMEN Latest News, Apr 23, 2011

Apr 23, 2011

YEMEN Latest News, Apr 23, 2011

Yemeni President Says Opposition Dragging Country to Civil War
Bloomberg
“They want to drag the area to civil war and we refuse to be dragged to civil war,” Saleh said in a speech today to the military and students, the official Saba news service said. “Security, safety and stability are in Yemen's interest and the ...
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Will Yemen's Tomorrow Ever Come?
Yemen Observer
All of us feel the difficulties of today in all aspects of our lives; particularly the economic ones. The problem is that these difficulties will get worse no matter who governs Yemen next. The beautiful Yemeni youth have risen and change is underway ...
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Syrian Deaths Reported for Second Day at Funerals of Anti-Assad Protestors
Bloomberg
Anti-government protests in Sana'a, Yemen's capital, drew almost 1 million people following Friday prayers yesterday, according to an unidentified organizer. Demonstrators are demanding the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 30-year rule. ...
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Photo Galleries: Business
News & Observer
Getty Images Anti-government protestors carry a Yemeni flag during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Taiz, Yemen, Friday, April 22, 2011. Opponents and supporters of Yemen's embattled president are ...
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News & Observer
Syria's deadliest day...More bodies found in Mexico...Colorado suspect
9&10 News
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Authorities in Yemen have arrested dozens of soldiers and military officers for joining anti-government protesters. A brutal crackdown on more than two months of protests, including deadly sniper attacks, triggered a wave of key ...
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Kuwait Energy Sells 22 Percent Stake in Egyptian Oil Concession
Bloomberg
Kuwait Energy, which was set up in 2005, operates in Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Oman, Ukraine, Latvia, Russia and Pakistan. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net.
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Iranian VP: Collaboration with US to Annihilate Saudi, Al-Khalifa Regimes
Fars News Agency
He blamed the United States' puppet regimes for the recent and current events in Bahrain, Libya and Yemen, and reiterated, "Today no Muslim can accept that his Muslim brother is being killed by the forces of another country and the US should know that ...
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The Russian-Chinese Partnership Against People(s)
Huffington Post (blog)
With this, questions began to arise over whether the Russian and Chinese leaderships have chosen to foster the pre-Arab-Spring status quo ante in places like Iran, Yemen, Syria, and perhaps even Libya -- in other words, against people and their ...
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Supreme Leader Underlines Positive Outcomes of Islamic Awakening in Region
Fars News Agency
In February, another Arab revolution led to the ouster of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after three decades of his authoritarian rule. Other revolutions are erupting in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain, while other anti-government unrests have swept ...
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Fars News Agency
Sinking Into Quicksand With the Devils We Know
Huffington Post (blog)
Yemen is afire because President Salah is clinging to the palace drapes despite White House efforts to facilitate his departure. The Saudi-US relationship is (hopefully temporarily) mired in misunderstanding and recrimination. ...
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This will be the Arab world's next battle
The Guardian
In neighbouring Yemen, replenishable aquifers are being pumped well beyond the rate of recharge, and the deeper fossil aquifers are also being rapidly depleted. Water tables are falling throughout Yemen by about two metres per year. ...
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Al Jazeera's War on Gaddafi
Bay Area Indymedia
In late March, moreover, Front Page writer Mohammed al-Kibsi accused Al Jazeera of airing old Iraqi prisoner abuse video, broadcast by Al-Arabiya in 2007, in fabricating news about Yemen. Yet it was aired repeatedly, claiming it showed Yemeni Central ...
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Somalia Children Suffer Malnutrition
Onislam.net
Affected by the war, many people are leaving rural areas to search for work in Somali towns, while others are quitting the country altogether, going to Kenya and Yemen. The UN agency says that the fighting has displaced over 23000 people from the city ...
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Droneboat Diplomacy and its downsides
Wired (blog)
3, 2002, CIA operatives in Djibouti fired laser-guided Hellfire missiles from a drone at a passenger vehicle in Yemen, killing all the passengers, including an American citizen. The Predator was designed in the 1990s to carry cameras and other sensors ...
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EU, GCC Open New Page In Bilateral Relations
Eurasia Review
It was the first ministerial meeting between the 27-member European bloc and the six-member GCC since the downfall of the regimes in Egypt and Tunisia and came amid continued turmoil in Libya, Yemen and Syria which gave an added significance to the ...
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Eurasia Review
Assad and Reform: Damned if He Does, Doomed if He Doesn't
TIME
The chants for reform have increasingly been replaced with the call that has ricocheted across the Middle East from Libya to Yemen and now Syria: Ash-sha'ab yurid isqat an-nizam! — "The people want the fall of the regime. ...
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Arab Spring Stalls as US Defers to Saudi "Counter-revolution"
Inter Press Service
Meanwhile, the more idealistic youth-led movements that initiated the early "pro-democracy" demonstrations that succeeded in ousting Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt have in some cases, as in Yemen and Libya, been displaced ...
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From the Pastor's Heart
Local Talk News
The dumping of radiated water in the sea around Japan, the prospect of a government shutdown here in the United States, the battles in Libya, Ivory Coast, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq are all issues that have caught my interest. ...
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Mirage and reality in the Arab Spring
Aljazeera.net
While protesters in Yemen have remained remarkably disciplined, the violence that pervades Yemeni society could easily swallow the pro-democracy movement if only a small minority of the protesters lose faith in the process and take up arms. ...
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Aljazeera.net
Drones a boost in Libya, but no 'magic bullet'
msnbc.com
"You'd want more UAVs if they were available," said Barrie, noting there were limits to how many could be deployed without affecting missions in Afghanistan and Yemen. "The Predators have the potential to change things, but only in a limited area," ...
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Sinan Çiftyürek on the Arab Spring: "the relation politics/streets has been re ...
Anarkismo.net
... Egypt and Yemen were, on the one hand, that they themselves had the same circumstances making people come out onto the streets against their respective regimes and, on the other hand, that any national, regional problem in the world today crosses ...
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Anarkismo.net
Another dream unravels
The Hindu
It's been widely noted that the US and its allies, so eager to defend democracy in Libya, are staunch sponsors of the regimes in Bahrain and Yemen that are slaughtering democracy activists. That they were at best indifferent to the millions who have ...
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Coach Bob Houghton resigns after a bitter stand-off with AIFF
Indian Express
Houghton, who has been facing an inquiry from a three-man AIFF panel on charges of racially abusing Indian referee Dinesh Nair in an international friendly against Yemen last year, today tendered his resignation, bringing an end to his eventful ...
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A Modern-Day "Silent Guest" to Fight Global Hunger
Blogcritics.org (blog)
In some countries like Yemen, Food for Education has been suspended for a year due to lack of funding. Other school feeding programs at risk include Benin, Afghanistan, Mauritania, Tajikistan and more. Many countries lack universal school feeding. ...
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The Eros Effect and the Arab Uprisings
CounterPunch
And in the context of the uprisings in the Middle East—whether it be in Egypt, Libya, Yemen—how do you see these organizational roles being fulfilled and how do you see them interacting with the spontaneous nature of the revolts? ...
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Lack of students disappoints debaters
Brandon Sun
"You have people in Yemen and Egypt dying for democracy," Bouché said. "And here we are taking it for granted. The best man at my wedding, he's a teacher in BC, and he gets excited about elections. He gets his high school students involved. ...
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Apr 22, 2011 posted by: Mari Lou-WGMD News
WGMD Radio
Although unrest in the Middle East and North Africa (notably Libya, Syria and Yemen) continues to fuel crude oil prices, data shows the correlation between a weakening dollar and rising oil prices was the strongest this week. ...
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Robert Fisk: But what if the spirit of rebellion spread to Iran?
The Independent
Saleh in Yemen tells his people that the plot is al-Qa'ida, Israeli and American. Ye gods! This is the kind of talk the Middle East had to listen to back in the Sixties. But today? The Syrian regime is made of tougher stuff than Mubarak's police scum ...
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Indian football coach Houghton resigns
Hindustan Times
Houghton, who has been fa cing an inquiry from a three-man AIFF panel on charges of racially abusing Indian referee Dinesh Nair in an international friendly against Yemen last year, today tendered his resignation, bringing an end to his eventful ...
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Friday Wrap: Earth Week, Oil Spill and a Taco Made of Doritos
Care2.com (blog)
Protest leaders say this announcement is too little too late. Violence between protesters and police continues to plague the country, and the government continues to keep a watchful eye on foreign reporting. Bahrain and Yemen are also suffering from ...
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Care2.com (blog)
As Yemen's President Saleh continues to refuse to step down, women are leading ...
Free Speech Radio News
Security forces in Syria opened fire on demonstrators today in what some are calling a massacre. Dozens were killed and many wounded during anti-government demonstrations involving many thousands in cities and villages across the country. ...
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Israel will not collapse peacefully but it will dissolve: Dr. Franklin Lamb
NL-Aid
Sooner or later, the same destiny awaits the dictators of Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Saudi Arabia who were all once the stalwart allies of the United States and its European cronies. What's your estimation of the recent developments in the region and ...
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