Posts Tagged ‘Yemen’

Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2006

If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, in between 168 indexed countries, our beloved Arab countries makes sure to be among the worst.
Here is the [...]

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Bird flu feared in Yemen

This item was filled under [ Bleeding Edge, Sabbah, Yemen ]

Bird flu at our door steps (Arabic):
Large numbers of chicken perished in south Yemen triggering fears bird flu, reports said Monday.
The Daily al-Ayam reported an unidentified disease is spreading quickly among birds in the province of Kabita, and cats and dogs that ate the dead birds also perished.
The paper said sick chickens stopped eating and [...]

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Rocket fired at Saudi Arabia from Yemen?

This item was filled under [ Arab, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Yemen ]

Searched everywhere on the Arabic media to confirm this, but could not find it except on United Press International:
Saudi Arabia said Monday a rocket fired from inside Yemeni territory exploded on the Saudi side of the border.
Daily al-Watan quoted a security source as saying an explosion, which occurred in the border province of Najran, [...]

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Tourist Marriage in Yemen, another form of Prostitution in the Gulf!

This item was filled under [ Culture, Failures, Human Rights, Sabbah ]

The latest victims of the prostitution club in the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen!!
Tourist marriage in Yemen
By Nabil Al-Osaidi For Yemen Times
Rua’a, a seventeen-year-old secondary school student in Ibb, used to be dodged by a new comer from one of the neighboring countries, until he succeeded to convince her to marry him. Then she lost her most [...]

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Riots In Yemen

This item was filled under [ Bleeding Edge, Politics, Yemen ]

Riots In Yemen: Twenty dead, hundreds injured, no photos allowed. Roundup here.

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A New Day in Old Sana�a

This item was filled under [ Art, Good News, Yemen ]

Yemen�s first ever feature film “A New Day in Old Sana�a” is accepted by Cannes Film Festival as part of the Film Marche. However, the film will not be part of the competition in the festival this May 11-22.

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