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AP source: Christmas bomb suspect flips on cleric

AP News 5 days ago

AP source: Suspect in Christmas airliner bombing plot gives intel on radical cleric in Yemen A law enforcement official says the Nigerian suspect in the failed Christmas Day airliner attack has given up intelligence about a radical Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen. ...

Pentagon seeks billions to battle terror abroad

AP News 5 days ago

Pentagon seeks billions of new dollars to battle terrorism, cyber threats in US and abroad The Obama administration is seeking billions in budget increases to target terror threats from abroad, especially Pakistan and Yemen, with boosts for surveillance and attack drones, special ...

World ignoring humanitarian needs in Yemen, UN warns

Reuters US Online Report World News 5 days ago

GENEVA (Reuters) - The humanitarian situation in Yemen is worsening, yet donors are shunning the country, putting life-saving programs at risk, the top United Nations aid official said on Thursday. John Holmes, U.N. emergency relief coordinator, also said in an interview that ...

U.S. should increase financial aid to Yemen: Carnegie

Reuters US Online Report Politics News 6 days ago

SANAA (Reuters) - The United States should increase aid to Yemen to prevent the poor Arab country becoming a failed state and not just focus on assistance to fight al Qaeda there, research house Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said. Yemen was ...

US cleric: Accused plane bomber was my student

AP News 6 days ago

US-born Yemeni cleric says suspect in Christmas airliner attack was his student A radical American-Yemeni Islamic cleric suspected of ties to al-Qaida has said the Nigerian accused in the failed Christmas airliner attack was his student but that he didn't tell him ...

U.S. preacher says backs failed plane bombing: report

Reuters US Online Report Domestic News 6 days ago

DUBAI (Reuters) - A radical Muslim preacher linked to a gunman who ran amok at a U.S. army base, has said he supports the failed bombing of a U.S. plane but that he did not encourage the attack, according to Al Jazeera ...

Spy agencies can target Americans: official

Reuters US Online Report Top News 6 days ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In unusually frank comments, the top U.S. intelligence official acknowledged on Wednesday that spy agencies can target for killing Americans who are involved in terrorism. "We take direct action against terrorists, in the intelligence community," Dennis Blair, director of ...

Yemen rebels say open to Saudi prisoner swap

Reuters US Online Report World News 7 days ago

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's northern Shi'ite rebels said on Tuesday they were open to a prisoner swap with neighboring Saudi Arabia if Riyadh was committed to peace, but said the kingdom had carried out more air strikes against them. Saudi Arabia declared ...

Yemen rebels deny mounting sniper attacks in Saudi

Reuters US Online Report World News 8 days ago

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni Shi'ite rebels denied on Monday their snipers were operating inside Saudi Arabia and said Saudi war planes were striking targets across the border. Saudi Arabia has accused the insurgents of mounting sniper attacks inside its territory even after ...

Yemen opposition politician gunned down in south

Reuters US Online Report World News 9 days ago

ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - A Yemeni provincial opposition politician thought to be active in a southern separatist movement was gunned down in south Yemen, his party and local residents said on Monday. The Yemeni Socialist Party said Saeed Ahmed Abdullah bin Daoud ...

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