Yemen & World

OMAN, Aug. 31 (YPA) - Richard Oppenheim, the British ambassador to the coalition-backed government, said on Wednesday he held a meeting with the head of the Sanaa negotiating delegation, Mohammed Abdul Salam, in the Sultanate of Oman. "I…

SANAA, Aug. 31 (YPA) - The speaker of the Shura Council, Mohammed Hussein Al-Aidarous, sent on Wednesday a congratulatory telegram to the president of the Malaysian Senate, Rais Yatim, on the occasion of the national day of his country.

SANAA, Aug. 31 (YPA) –The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hisham Sharaf, on sent two cables of congratulations to the Foreign Minister of the Slovak Republic, Ivan Korcok, and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Vladimir Norov. In…

SANAA, Aug. 31 (YPA) -The Oriental Art Auctions has on Tuesday failed to sell a rare Yemeni artifact in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. A Yemeni activist and researcher specialised in tracing looted and stolen Yemeni antiquities, Abdullah…

SOCOTRA, Aug. 31 (YPA) - An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale struck on Tuesday night off the coast of Oman and the island of Socotra, Global seismic monitoring centers reported. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10km. In…

GENEVA, Aug. 30 (YPA) - The United Nations accused on Tuesday the donor countries of not fulfilling pledges to save the Safer Reservoir anchored off the western coast of Yemen. Russell Geekie, the Senior Communications Advisor to the…

NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (YPA) - The World Food Program (WFP) said in a statement that a Ukrainian wheat ship left on Tuesday, heading for Yemen. The program stated that the ship "Kartaria" left the port of Yuzhny on the Black Sea and will stop in…

SANAA, Aug. 30 (YPA) - President of the Supreme Political Council, Mahdi Al-Mashat, on Tuesday sent a congratulatory cable to King Abdullah Ahmad Shah of Malaysia. In the cable, President Al-Mashat expressed his congratulations to King…

SANAA, Aug. 30 (YPA) - The Speaker of Parliament, Yahya Ali Al-Ra'i, on Tuesday sent a cable of condolences and sympathy to the Speaker of the Pakistani Parliament, Raja Pervez Ashraf, for the victims of the floods that hit Pakistan. In the…

MAHRA, Aug. 30 (YPA) - The Sultanate of Oman on Tuesday objected to the movements of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia on the eastern border of Yemen. This coincides with the STC's arrangements for a military…