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Netherlands investigates police officer’s “racist” attack on two Muslim women
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 29 (YPA) - Dutch authorities announced on Wednesday a comprehensive investigation into an incident involving a police officer filmed kicking and striking two Muslim women with a baton in the city of Utrecht. The move follows…
Socotra student protests escalate over closure of Island’s only university
SOCOTRA, Jan. 29 (YPA) - Student protests in the Socotra Archipelago, southern Yemen, entered their third consecutive day on Thursday, following a decision by the University Council to shut down the institution. The closure has resulted in…
Colombia: 15 killed, including MP, Congress candidate, in Northeast plane crash
BOGOTÁ, Jan. 29 (YPA) - Colombian authorities confirmed on Wednesday evening that there were no survivors following the crash of a passenger plane in the northeast of the country, stating that all 15 people on board were killed, including…
“Al-Amaliqa” forces close Southern Transitional Council’s HQ in Aden on Saudi directives
ADEN, Jan. 29 (YPA) - Military units from the "Al-Amaliqa" Brigades surrounded and shut down the headquarters of the dissolved Southern Transitional Council’s (STC) National Assembly in the Tawahi district of Aden on Thursday. The move,…
Hamas: Linking Gaza reconstruction to disarmament is “election propaganda”; resistance…
GAZA, Jan. 29 (YPA) - Hamas senior leader Mousa Abu Marzouk affirmed that Israeli occupation’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements linking the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip to the disarmament of the resistance are merely…
Albanese calls for suspending ties with “Israel”, asserting “occupation is illegal and must end”
NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (YPA) - Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has urged the international community to suspend diplomatic and bilateral relations with the Israeli occupation until it…
Israeli occupation continues siege on Hazma for third consecutive day, launching mass raids, arrests
OCCUPIED QUDS, Jan. 29 (YPA) - For the third day in a row, Israeli occupation forces have maintained a tight siege and a total closure on the town of Hazma, northeast of occupied Quds (Jerusalem). This ongoing military operation has…
Seminar in Sanaa: Israeli recognition of “Somaliland” is existential threat to Yemen,…
SANAA, Jan. 28 (YPA) - Politicians and researchers from Yemen and Somalia have warned of the grave repercussions following the Zionist entity's announcement of its recognition of "Somaliland" as an independent state. Participants…
Former official ignites political firestorm over Mahra land disputes
MAHRA, Jan. 28 (YPA) - Rajeh Said Bakrit, a member of the dissolved “Southern Transitional Council” (STC) Presidium and former Governor of Mahra province, has stirred a complex political and sovereign debate by calling on the President of…