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An 8-year-old girl is pleading to a Saudi Arabian court for a divorce from a man in his 50s. The girl was married off to the man without her knowledge, reported the Saudi newspaper al-Watan. The child's father was behind the marriage while her mother is now thought to be pushing for an annulment, the BBC reported Sunday. Child-protection organizations say Saudi children are sometimes given away in return for large dowries, or as a result of beliefs that marriage to cousins or other known...
Text of report in English by state-run Yemeni news agency Saba website Sana'a, 24 August: Deputy Minister of Oil and Minerals Abd al- Malik Alama said on 24 July that the Yemeni-Ethiopian Joint Technical Committee signed on August 23 in Addis Abba a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two countries in the fields of oil, gas and energy. Upon arrival from Ethiopia on Sunday, Alama made clear that the MoU includes activating cooperation between Yemen and Ethiopia through Yemen's...
By Alan Gomez GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- When Salim Hamdan discovered that his employer was responsible for the attack on the USS Cole, which killed 17 U.S. servicemembers in 2000, the Yemeni said he felt no joy. Rather, Hamdan said, he felt betrayed. "It kills you. It's a shock. Someone who you greatly respect, whom you hold in esteem, suddenly turns into someone else," Hamdan said, according to a psychiatrist who interviewed him. Yet after coming to that realization, Hamdan did not quit...
By Hagadone, Zach Powered Corporation, the Houston-based energy firm that has partnered with Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. hopes will provide financing for its proposed $4.5 billion nuclear plant in Elmore County, brings with it a fair amount of baggage. Even a cursory look through documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission paints a less-than-rosy picture of Powered's financial stability. Incorporated in 1996, Powered has suffered losses equal to its...
By Hagadone, Zach It's been a rocky road for Don Gillispie's proposed 1,600- megawatt nuclear plant. First announced more than a year ago and sited in Owyhee County, the $4.5 billion Idaho Energy Complex, which would be the state's first commercial reactor, has suffered a barrage of criticism for everything from the planned design of its reactor, to the science behind its safety, to its water use, location and the very necessity of its being built. As several financing deals fell through...
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/fc5aa1/yemen_oil_and_gas) has announced the addition of the "Yemen Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Industry Investment Opportunities, Analysis and Forecasts to 2012" report to their offering. Summary: This profile is the essential source for top-level industry data and information relating to the Exploration & Production industry in Yemen. It provides asset level information relating to the active and planned oil...
Text of report in English by Yemeni news agency Saba website SANA'A, July 01 (Saba) -Sana'a International Airport seized Sunday evening [29 June] 715,000 capsules of drugs which have been hidden inside water heaters of a Syrian trader, 26sept reported Monday. The media office of interior ministry said that shipment arrived in Sana'a airport on 6th of June, but the trader came last night to get the shipment. The office said that the airport police arrested the trader and the person who...
By Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald Jul. 1--The Pentagon filed death-penalty charges against a Saudi man at Guantanamo on Monday, alleging he engineered the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole off Aden, Yemen. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed and 47 other people were wounded in the al Qaeda attack that crippled the $1 billion destroyer four years after it was commissioned at Port Everglades. The 11-page charge sheet sworn out by a Marine major accused Abd al Rahim al Nashiri,...
MIAMI _ The Pentagon on Monday announced a proposed death penalty prosecution of a Saudi man at Guantanamo, alleging he organized the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole off Aden, Yemen, that killed 17 American sailors. The 11-page charge sheets, signed by a Marine major, accuse Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, 43, of conspiracy, murder and other law of war violations. It seeks to try him by military commission at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba and execute him if he is convicted....
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - June 16, 2008) - TransGlobe Energy Corporation ("TransGlobe" or the "Company") (TSX:TGL) (NASDAQ:TGA) is pleased to provide a mid-quarter production and operations update for the second quarter of 2008. All dollar values are expressed in United States dollars unless otherwise stated. PRODUCTION UPDATE Total Company production averaged 7,260 barrels of oil per day (Bopd) during the month of May. Following the closing of the sale of the Canadian assets on April...
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The Arabian Wolf (Canis lupus arabs), is a mammal of the order Carnivora. It is a subspecies of Gray Wolf which was once found throughout the Arabian Peninsula, but now only lives in small pockets in Southern Israel, Oman, Yemen, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Their ears are proportionately larger in relation to body size when compared to other species, an adaptation needed to disperse body heat. This subspecies is unusual, as it is not known to howl. Arabian wolves are unique among gray...
The Veiled Chameleon, Chamaeleo calyptratus, is a species of chameleon found in the mountainous regions of Yemen and Saudi Arabia. It is also called the Yemen Chameleon. These are expert tree climbers and tree dwellers. They have feet specially designed to grasp limbs and branches. The male veiled chameleon has a green base color and, depending on mood, this green will range from a bright lime green to a dark olive drab. The green base color is marked with stripes and spots of yellow,...
The Veiled Chameleon is a large species of chameleon found in the mountain regions of Yemen and Saudi Arabia. It is also sometimes referred to as the Yemeni Chameleon. The male veiled chameleon has a green base color and, depending on its mood, this green will range from a bright lime green to a drab, dark olive color. The green base color is marked with stripes and spots of yellow, brown, and blue. Non breeding females as well as juvenile chameleons are generally a uniform green color...
