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Allegations of torture in Yemen are seldom investigated or prosecuted and there appears to be "a climate of impunity" for the perpetrators, the UN body added. According to the committee, political activists, journalists and rights defenders have been arrested arbitrarily...

From his tent made of blankets, Ali al-Majeshri stared at the tarpaulin tents in the refugee camp across the road. Five days before, he and his family had arrived at this wretched patch in a failing nation, driven here by...

The Yemeni army called on the misled al-Houthi rebels to surrender themselves in Sa’adah province, where fierce battles continue. In a statement published by state-run media, the Ministry of Defense said that the police stations, local authority buildings, houses of...

A hospitalized victim of a Busan, South Korean, indoor shooting range fire has died, bringing the death toll to 11, officials said Wednesday. Tour guide Moon Min-ja, 67, died of severe burns and heart failure at Hana Hospital in Busan,...

The news came on Thursday, hours after the Shia fighters said they destroyed a number of Saudi military vehicles and tanks in northern Yemen. In August, Sana'a pressed a new offensive against the resistance fighters, who took arms in 2004...

The goal absolutely is to be the country who decides which direction the new middle east (dis)order will take. Bush started it by attacking Iraq to get into the middle east to destabilize it and start the new middle east...

A Japanese engineer kidnapped near Sanaa is still being held by Yemeni tribesmen, a mediator said on Wednesday, while Japan’s prime minister expressed hope the 63-year-old’s release was “close.Sheikh Abdel-Jalil, a tribal leader in Arhab, northeast of Sanaa where the...

Government forces destroyed weaponry belonging to the Houthi fighters and wreaked massive losses in terms of casualties and equipment in Tuesday's clash in the province of Sa'ada. Abbas Aaida and Abu Haider were killed and another commander, Yousif al-Madani, was...

Tribesmen released a Japanese engineer they had abducted in an area northeast of the capital, Sana, a provincial official said Tuesday. “He is now with the mediators; he will be in the capital within two hours,” the official told Reuters....

South Korea (Kyodo) The fire that raged through an indoor shooting range in Busan claimed the lives of seven Japanese, not eight, as earlier suspected, an official at the Japanese Consulate General in the South Korean city said Monday. A...