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The Parliament on Thursday agreed to study a proposal by 200 MPs for extending the current Parliament’s term to two years and delaying the parliamentary elections to April 2011.
This extension and elections delay will enable political parties to get enough time for reaching a deal to carry out electoral reforms, said MPs in a request signed by 200 MPs, the majority of 301-member Parliament.
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| The Parliament on Saturday referred a draft law of access to information presented by the government to the Information Committee in the Parliament to study it, but some members rejected the law.
MPs representing different parties said the government's draft law was presented to the Parliament to replace a previous law under discussion.
They said that the draft law presented by MP Ali Ashal is better than the gover |
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Washington — With uncertainty surrounding Yemen’s proposed April parliamentary elections, the U.S. ambassador in Sana’a urges the governing and opposition parties to make compromises to allow the vote to proceed and give Yemen’s people the opportunity to express their will “freely and fairly.”
Yemen’s political parties are engaged in a “protracted dispute” over elements of the election such as voter registration, |
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| SANA'A, NewsYemen
The European Commission has decided to make available a financial package worth €19 million to Yemen under the 2008 Annual Action Programme to support the two ambitious programmes in the key sectors of Health and Public Administration.
The financial package will focus on two components: (1) Reproductive Health and Population Programme Phase II 2010/2012 (€9.5m) in three Governorates: Hajja, Amran |
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| SANA'A, NewsYemen
Although the first step towards the parliamentary elections next April is facing challenges, Yemeni citizens in many electoral constituencies are refusing to head to electoral centers to get their names registered and opposition patties persist to encourage people to boycott elections, President Ali Abdullah Saleh said that elections delay has indication of chaos.
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| SANA’A, NewsYemen
The Court of Appeals upheld on Monday a five-year sentence of Ahmad bin Maeili and his exile.
The court convicted bin Maeili with counterfeiting a Yemeni identity and passport. It ordered to deport bin Maeili according to the article 32 of the international convention of stateless persons.
Bin Maeili’s lawyer, Abdul-Rahman Barman, said the article also stipulates "stateless persons not to be |
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SANA’A, NewsYemen
A state security and terrorism specialized court refused on Monday an objection by al-Share independent weekly against the court’s authority to hold a press case as press cases are required by the constitution to be heard by the Press and Publications Court.
The court said it has the authority to look into the case raised against the paper by the Ministry of Defense and ordered the case to the p |
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| SANA’A, NewsYemen
The Yemeni security forces are hunting suspects in Hodeidah believed to be involved in a terrorist attack on U.S. Embassy in Sana’a last September.
Informed sources said the terrorist cell that carried out attack on the US embassy has links to al-Qaeda in neighboring Saudi Arabia and most suspects are from Hodeidah. This information does not go in line with previous official reports that most of |
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SANA'A, NewsYemen
Court of Appeals upheld on Monday a death sentence on espionage charge against a Yemeni-Saudi who had been stripped of his Saudi citizenship and acquitted a Yemeni national.
Hamad al-Dhahouk, a former Saudi soldier of Yemeni origin, and Abdul-Aziz al-Hatbani, an officer in Yemen's army, were both sentenced to death in February by a the Penal Court specialized in state security and terrorism cases |
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SANA'A, NewsYemen
Specialized Primary Court held on Sunday hearing sessions on the cases of two groups of Iranians charged of smuggling drugs to Yemen.
The first hearing session was held on the case of 11 Iranian fishermen and one Pakistani charged with smuggling hashish to the country.
The charged fishermen admitted they illegally crossed Yemen's territorial waters, but denied that the quantity of hashish s |
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