Iran ratifies law to join UN convention against terror financing

Iran ratified a law joining a United Nations convention against terror financing, local media reported Wednesday It hopes it will lead to access to global banking, an easing of trade and relieving pressure on its sanctions-hit economy TEHRAN: Iran...

Iran joins UN anti-terrorism treaty in hope of easing economic sanctions

Iran ratified a law joining a United Nations convention against terror financing, local media reported Wednesday, in hopes it will lead to access to global banking, an easing of trade and relieving pressure on its sanctions-hit economy. Iranian...

New Zealand: Workers need a socialist perspective to fight pay cuts, austerity and war

Thursday’s historic strike by 110,000 public sector workers across New Zealand reveals the mass opposition that exists in the working class to the National Party-led coalition government’s relentless assault on public services and its promotion of...

Houthis free five UN workers but 15 foreign staff still confined

Published on 21/10/2025 - 11:49 GMT+2 •Updated 11:51 Houthi rebels have released five Yemeni United Nations staff members detained over the weekend, but 15 international employees remain confined to a UN compound, according to a spokesperson for...

Airbase on Yemen island points to build-up of anti-Houthi forces

Fishermen sail near Zuqar Island off the coast of Yemen on 3 May 2021. [Getty] A new airstrip is being built on a volcanic island in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, satellite images show, likely the latest project by forces allied to those...

KSrelief clears 1,190 explosives in Yemen

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) Masam Project removed 1,190 explosives across various regions of Yemen during the third week of October. The cleared explosives included 1,135 pieces of unexploded ordnance, 49...

Houthis detain 20 UN employees in Yemen amid escalating crackdown on aid workers

Yemen's Houthi rebels detained 20 UN employees (five Yemenis, 15 international workers) in Sanaa, accusing them of espionage—a claim the UN strongly denies. The arrests disrupt critical aid operations in Yemen, already devastated by war and...

Yemen’s Huthi rebels detain 20 UN employees and confiscate equipment

CAIRO Associated Press — Iranian-backed Huthi rebels detained two dozen UN employees Sunday, a day after they raided another UN facility in the capital Sanaa, a UN official said. Jean Alam, a spokesman for the UN resident coordinator for Yemen,...

UN confirms all staff freed from Yemen compound after Houthi withdrawal

The United Nations has verified that all personnel previously restricted within its Sanaa compound have regained their freedom following the withdrawal of Houthi security forces from the facility. The resolution comes after days of limited...

UN says all staff inside compound in Yemeni capital now free

“All fifteen UN international staff are now free to move inside the UN compound in Sana’a and are in contact with their respective UN entities and families,” the team announced in a written update on the situation in the capital. The UN also...

[World Bank Report Warns Yemen Is on the Brink of Becoming the Poorest Country Globally

Aden — A newly released report by the World Bank has placed Yemen among the poorest countries in the world, warning that the war-torn nation is edging closer to becoming the poorest globally. The Poverty and Equity Assessment 2024, published...

Supply chains stable despite Houthi Red Sea attacks, DP World COO says

ABU DHABI: DP World Global Chief Operating Officer Tiemen Meester said on Wednesday during an interview at the Reuters NEXT Gulf Summit in Abu Dhabi that supply chains are stable despite Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. Yemen's Houthis have launched...

Houthis free UN staff after raid, mourn slain military chief

Daijiworld Media Network – Sanaa Sanaa, Oct 21: Houthi rebels in Yemen have released five detained Yemeni United Nations staff members and permitted 15 international UN employees to move freely within the organization’s compound in Sanaa after...

Yemen’s Houthis Conduct Another Mass Kidnapping of U.N. Staffers

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen raided a United Nations compound in the occupied capital of Sanaa on Saturday and took 20 employees hostage, the latest of several mass kidnappings the Houthis have conducted against U.N. personnel. U.N....

Yemen – Houthi attack on the United Nations (20.10.25)

France condemns in the strongest possible terms the Houthi detention of UN employees in Sanaa, which marks the latest intolerable escalation against humanitarian workers in Yemen. By once again targeting the UN, which carries out essential efforts...

New Airstrip Emerges on Yemen’s Zuqar Island

A significant development has unfolded in the Red Sea as a 2,000-meter airstrip is under construction on Zuqar Island, located off Yemen’s coast. Satellite imagery analyzed by The Associated Press reveals that construction began in April, with...

Israel’s Eilat port presses US and Egypt over Houthi Red Sea blockade

New imported cars are seen at a parking lot in the Eilat port, Israel, January 3, 2024. (Photo: Yehuda Ben Itach/Flash90) Officials at Israel’s southernmost port in Eilat are calling for American and Egyptian intervention to pressure the...

Power Outage Paralyses Yemen's Aden As Fuel Supplies Run Out

(MENAFN- Nam News Network) ADEN, Yemen, Oct 21 (NNN-SABA) – The General Electricity Corporation in Aden, announced yesterday, a power outage, across the southern Yemeni port city, after the last fuel supplies, needed to run the main power station...

Yemenis mourn martyred military chief al-Ghamari at massive Sana’a funeral

Hundreds of thousands of mourners flooded the streets of the Yemeni capital of Sana’a on Monday for the funeral of Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, Staff Lieutenant General Mohammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari, who was declared a martyr in Israeli...

Skin Prick Test and Patch Test: Environmental and Chemical Allergen Reactivity Pattern Among Yemeni Patients in Sana’a City, Yemen

Introduction Allergic diseases are prevalent among all populations globally, and their rates have increased over time.1 The etiology of these diseases comprises genetic and environmental factors that affect the exacerbated immune response...