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• Greater spread of nuclear capability feared
Even Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, last year announced plans to purchase a nuclear reactor, which it says is needed to produce electricity; it is one of 11 Middle Eastern states now engaged in starting or expanding nuclear ...
• Today's weird news
And in April, in a courtroom in Sana'a, Yemen, a courageous 8-year-old girl walked in alone and demanded that the judge grant her a divorce from the 30-year-old man her father had contracted to marry her. The judge, rejecting tradition, granted the ...
• U.S.-contracted ship fires toward boats in Gulf
The U.S. military has been wary of small boats operating near its ships ever since an explosive-laden vessel rammed the USS Cole as it refueled in a Yemen harbor in 2000, killing 17 sailors onboard. Those fears were heightened in recent months by ...
• Natural wonders await Yemeni islands tourists
SOCOTRA, Yemen - Evolution has run riot on Yemen’s windy isles of Socotra, whose dizzying cliffs, jagged peaks and exotic plants entice the imagination to do the same. Here be dragons, or at least Dragon’s Blood trees, prized for their red ...
• Pirates arrested as police storm hijacked boat
The attack helped send crude oil prices to a new record, spiking above $117 a barrel Monday before falling back slightly. The 150,000-ton tanker was attacked 170 miles off the coast of Yemen while it was heading to Saudi Arabia. No one was injured ...

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