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(MENAFN) Nearly 16,000 more people have been uprooted in Yemen in just seven days as violence persists along the country's western coast and in the south, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Monday.

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(MENAFN) Yemeni government troops launched attacks against Houthi positions west of Taiz on Monday, amid mounting clashes across the conflict-ridden country.

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The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), in partnership with UNESCO, successfully concluded a five-day advanced capacity-building workshop entitled “Community-Based Inventorying for the Sustainable Safeguarding of...

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(MENAFN) Nearly 130,000 people have been forced to leave their homes across seven governorates in Yemen as worsening insecurity drives families to seek safer locations, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The latest...

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(MENAFN) Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is set to travel to the United Arab Emirates on Monday for discussions on bilateral ties and developments across the region, according to reports.

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(MENAFN) Former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has died at the age of 80 in the Saudi capital Riyadh, according to reports from Yemeni state media.

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(MENAFN) Yemen's Riyan International Airport has returned to service following years of dormancy, with domestic air travel resuming Sunday in the eastern Hadhramaut province, according to state media reports.

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(MENAFN) Yemen’s Riyan International Airport in Hadhramaut reopened to air traffic on Sunday, receiving its first flight since being largely out of operation for several years.

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(MENAFN) The Israeli military announced early Monday it had successfully intercepted two drones launched from Yemen, the latest hostile incursion as the region edges deeper into open warfare.

Macao Government News

MACAU, March 24 - In view of the continued deterioration of the situation in the Middle East, the Macao SAR Government elevates its measures including issuance of Level 1 travel alert to the following countries in the Middle East: Bahrain, Jordan,...

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(MENAFN) The US State Department escalated its travel advisory for Saudi Arabia to Level 3 — Reconsider Travel — on Wednesday, pointing to mounting security threats stemming from the ongoing US and Israeli military campaign against Iran. As part...

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(MENAFN) Somalia has initiated a formal inquiry into potential illegal transit through its territory by Aidarous al-Zubaidi, leader of Yemen's Southern Transitional Council (STC), authorities announced Thursday.

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(MENAFN) The head of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), Aidarus Al-Zoubaidi, has fled southern Yemen, according to a statement released Thursday by the Saudi-led Joint Forces Coalition.

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(MENAFN) The Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s internationally recognized government announced early Wednesday that it carried out targeted strikes in the southern Al-Dhale governorate, citing the failure of Southern Transitional Council...

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(MENAFN) Early Wednesday, the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen’s internationally recognized administration announced that it had conducted airstrikes in the southern Al-Dhale governorate, alleging that Southern Transitional Council (STC) chief...

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(MENAFN) Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has urged the implementation of a broad travel prohibition on nations allegedly “flooding” the United States with criminal migrants.

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(MENAFN) Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has called for a broad travel ban targeting nations she says are “flooding” the United States with criminal migrants.

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(MENAFN) The UN Security Council voted Friday to extend its sanctions regime on Yemen for another year, with 13 members supporting the measure and Russia and China abstaining.

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(MENAFN) The United Nations (UN) announced on Wednesday that 12 of its international employees, who had been confined within a UN facility in Yemen, have left the capital city, Sanaa, aboard a UN Humanitarian Air Service aircraft.

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(MENAFN) The United Nations announced on Wednesday that 12 of its international staff members who had been held inside a UN compound in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, have departed the country on a UN Humanitarian Air Service flight. "Earlier today, 12...