Yemen
January 1, 2003
The Yemeni parliament has approved a 2003 budget forecasting a deficit of 64 billion rials. The budget was proposed by the cabinet in November and predicts spending to reach YR 668 billion and revenue
The board of the Ramallah-based public investment firm Beit El Mal Holdings has decided to liquidate the company to protect shareholders. Beit El Mal was blacklisted in April 2001 by the US administra
December 31, 2002
U.S. investigators were trying Tuesday to discover whether the shootings at a missionary hospital in Yemen that killed three U.S. aid workers was part
A Lebanese soldier has opened fire at colleagues in a military barracks east of Beirut, killing one and wounding four before fleeing, an army statemen
December 30, 2002
A suspected Muslim extremist shot and killed three American doctors at a missionary hospital in Yemen on Monday, security officials said. According to
The Israeli army demolished on Monday the homes of two Islamic Jihad members who carried out a weekend attack on a Jewish settlement in which they kil
December 28, 2002
A top Yemeni opposition official was shot dead by a member of a rival opposition party in the middle of a party conference on Saturday, a government o
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has signed a deployment order to send "significant" ground forces, combat aircraft and logistics support to
December 25, 2002
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the Deputy Premier and Commander of the National Guard, received a message from Yemen President Ali Abdulla
A Kuwaiti delegation from the National Committee for Missing and POWs' Affairs arrived in Cairo on Tuesday to meet with Arab League Secretary General
December 24, 2002
Italian Deputy Interior Minister Antonio Daly arrived in Sana'a on Tuesday for an official visit to Yemen, aimed at holding talks on joint security c
The commander of the United States Joint Navy Forces in the African Horn, Major John Sattler left the capital of Sana'a on Tuesday, following a severa
Pipeline transmissions of gas from Algeria to Europe have surged by more than 70 percent to 30.9 billion cubic meters (bcm) between the years 1995 and 2001. During the same six-year period, total inte
Avenue Energy has entered into an agreement with the Sayer Group Consortium and Middle East Petroleum Services to acquire up to a 45 percent participation in certain oil and gas rights and properties
December 23, 2002
Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh received in Hodeidah Monday, Sheikh Hamad Bin-Jassim, Qatar's Foreign Minister, who handed President Saleh a letter