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    Yemen supreme court upholds execution of Jew killer
    Yemen's supreme court on Saturday upheld the death sentence against a man convicted of killing a member of the country's small Jewish minority, a judicial source told AFP.... More
    U.S. Army veteran in Colombia feels like he's caught in a no-fly trap
    A 29-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran sits in a bare apartment in a poor part of the Colombian capital, Bogota. He wants to come home, but he can't. He thinks it's because he's on the federal government's "no-fly list."... More
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    ATMs in Sana’a do not dispense Dollars, it is not a bank or two, but most of the banks in Yemen have stopped dispensing US Dollars from their ATMs.... More
    Oman: Investment boost for transport
    Oman: Investment boost for transport... More
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    Gerald Feierstein, the newly appointed ambassador to Yemen, said promoting security, stability, and development in Yemen will be his highest priorities,” arguing that “over the long term, the antidote for extremism will be more than security operations, said Feierste during a hearing held at the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations concerning nominees for ambassadorial positions in ...... More
    Yemen Map

    Latitude: 15.55273 Longtitude: 48.51639

    Location:
    Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia

    Border Countries:
    Oman 288 km, Saudi Arabia 1,458 km

    Terrain:
    narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula

    Geography:
    strategic location on Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes

    Capital:
    Sanaa

    About Yemen
    North Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what became South Yemen. Three years later, the southern government adopted a Marxist orientation. The massive exodus of hundreds of thousands of Yemenis from the south to the north contributed to two decades of hostility between the states. The two countries were formally unified as the Republic of Yemen in 1990. A southern secessionist movement in 1994 was quickly subdued. In 2000, Saudi Arabia and Yemen agreed to a delimitation of their border.

    Population:
    23,013,376 (July 2008 est.)

    Language:
    Arabic

    Religion:
    Muslim including Shaf'i (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shi'a), small numbers of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu

    Phone Service:
    since unification in 1990, efforts have been made to create a national telecommunications network

    Currency:
    Yemeni rial (YER)

    Climate:
    mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east

    Natural Hazards:
    sandstorms and dust storms in summer