Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 6/1/1998
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of June 1, 1998
- Yemeni army officers executed under killing charges
The Yemeni news agency Sabaa reported that an officer at the Yemeni air-force was executed in Aden on Wednesday after he admitted to killin one of his colleagues. Yemen, Judicial, 6/5/1998 - BBC appeals for release of its three journalists detained in Yemen Yemen-UK, Judicial, 6/5/1998
- Yemen charges journalists Yemen, Judicial, 6/5/1998
- Sanaa, Washington for more closeness
After Yemen was boycotted in 1990 by the US because of its support to Iraq during the Gulf War, the US started to resume interest in this country which enjoys a strategic position in the southern part of the Arab Peninsula. Yemen-USA, Military, 6/4/1998 - Yemeni socialist party criticizes government agenda
The socialist leader said that the government used the economic crisis and the reduction of petroleum's prices to justify the shortage in its budget, and it ignored the option of limiting spending. Yemen, Politics, 6/4/1998 - Yemen - GCC Yemen-Gulf, Politics, 6/4/1998
- Yemen continues investigation into journalists
The Yemeni authorities are continuing the investigation or three British correspondents from the B.B.C., after it accused them of not abiding by the authorities' instructions not to go to a tribal region that recently viewed kidnapping operations. Yemen, Local, 6/4/1998 - Yemen - execution Yemen, Politics, 6/3/1998
- Yemen, Qatar for boosting bilateral relations Yemen-Qatar, Politics, 6/2/1998
- 73 kidnapping operations victimize 160 foreigners and Yemenis
Formal statistics from Yemen's Ministry of Interior revealed that Yemen has had 73 kidnapping operations since January 21, 1992 with 134 foreigners and 26 Yemeni victims. Yemen, Politics, 6/1/1998