Sanaa - The Yemeni government has released more than 400 captured Shiite rebels. She received ten of the rebels captured back military vehicles. This confirmed the Houthi rebels in the north of the country on Thursday in a statement. A spokesman for the Houthi rebels, Mohammed Abdel Salam, said the release was mediated by Qatar.
Qatar had reached a truce last February between the government of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the rebel group. The rebels of the Shiite Houthi clan had fought six years against the central government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. It had been hundreds of rebels and government soldiers killed.
Qatar had reached a truce last February between the government of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the rebel group. The rebels of the Shiite Houthi clan had fought six years against the central government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. It had been hundreds of rebels and government soldiers killed.
It is with Tamar, one of two very promising offshore fields discovered in recent years off from Israel. It is probably the most important discovery in energy since the establishment of the State of Israel. The U.S. group Noble Energy, the main operator of an offshore natural gas field off the coast of Israel, called Leviathan, said Wednesday, December 29 that its reserves were estimated at 450 billion m3, which will enable Israel to become an exporter.
At least four people were killed and 22 others wounded in several attacks in Iraq, six of which were aimed at houses of Christians. At least two Christian citizens were killed and three wounded by the explosion of a device near his home in the neighborhood of al-Gadir, southeast of Baghdad, which also caused extensive damage materials.
Turkey does not seem to accept, to say the least, the newspaper that gives voice to the Kurdish minority. Emine Demir, former editor of the newspaper Azadiya Welat Kurdistan (in Kurdish, which means 'independence from the motherland'), was in fact condemned today by a court in Diyarbakir, the main town in southeastern Turkey, a Kurdish majority, to well 138 years in prison for 'propaganda in favor of Kurdish rebels'.
A series of newspaper articles that proved fateful: A court in Turkey has sentenced a Kurdish journalist to 138 years in prison. The texts had been classified as propaganda for the terrorist group PKK. Diyarbakir - Journalist Emine Demir was sentenced for a series of newspaper articles that were considered by the court in Diyarbakir as "pro-terrorist propaganda" on the banned Kurdish terrorist group PKK.
No mercy for the Putin-opponent: A Moscow court has sentenced the ex-oligarch Khodorkovsky, to a total of almost 14 years in prison. The judge's decision destroyed the hopes of Russian liberals to radical reforms and the enforcement ability of President Medvedev. The hopes of the defenders on a mild punishment was Judge Victor Danilkin destroyed even in the morning: was for an improvement of the indicted ex-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky necessarily need an "isolation from the society." Then the judge announced the Moscow Chamowniki-court, the penalty for Russia's once richest man and his partner Platon Lebedev: 13.5 years in prison for embezzlement of 218 million tons of crude oil and money laundering.
A Danish court has charged three people with attempted act of terrorism and possession of weapons by planning an attack against a Danish newspaper, reported Thursday Lykke Sorensen, a member of the Security and Intelligence Service (PET), told reporters in Glostrup city. Police on Wednesday arrested four men in Denmark and one on suspicion of trying to attack the offices of Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.
In 2010, 57 journalists were killed in the exercise of their profession against 76 in 2009, according to a report published Thursday, December 30 Reporters Without Borders (RSF). This record is much lower than that delivered by the NGO Press Emblem Campaign, based in Geneva, which reported 105 journalists killed, down from last year.
The suspected terrorists reject the allegations, but the security authorities are sure: the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten should an attack be committed. The plot is reminiscent of the foiled plans of Pakistan's extremist Kashmiri and his follower Headley. Berlin - published since the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten "In 2005 his series of cartoons of Mohammed goes by, hardly a week goes by without al-Qaeda or another militant organization calling for vengeance.
Pope Benedict XVI today issued a document to combat money laundering in financial institutions in the Vatican, three months after the Vatican Bank to be investigated. Benedict XVI stresses through an apostolic letter, his commitment to the adoption of the principles and legal instruments promoted by the international community to combat the phenomenon of money laundering and terrorist financing and indicates that it adopts a rule for this purpose.
This is a telegraph post inspired by two reports in the media almost simultaneously. The first concerns the reasons for the sentence to 14 years imprisonment imposed at first instance the Carabinieri General Giampaolo Ganzer, commander of the ROS, in relation to some chores unedifying in narcotics operations.
Former Israeli President, Moshe Katsav, who has been convicted of two rapes and several cases of sexual violence. This was decided by a district court in Tel Aviv, after an investigation and a trial lasted four years and a source of great controversy in the country. Katsav has been convicted of two rapes of an official from the Ministry of Tourism, at the time when the former president was charge of the department, between 1996 and 1999.
The tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela intensify: Washington now has the Ambassador of the South American country deprived of the visa - in response to the refusal of the Chavez government to accept the proposed U.S. ambassador in Caracas. Washington - It is no longer desirable in the United States: Washington has withdrawn the Venezuelan ambassador for the visa.
The Bolivian government expects the city mood, very disturbed by the substantial increase in fuel prices effective from Monday, will appease the offer of a wage increase of 20% and other social measures announced in last night (early morning Today in Spain) by President Evo Morales. 
A bomb exploded early Thursday, December 30 at the Greek Embassy in Buenos Aires, causing damage but no casualties. "There was an explosive device outside the Greek embassy," said a spokesman for the police stressed that the damage was not substantial and that an investigation was underway. Almost at the same time, a bomb exploded in a court in Athens, causing damage but no casualties, less than three weeks of the trial of suspected members of a radical anarchist group suspected parcel bomb attacks that have targeted embassies in Greece in November.
More tanks and more specialized units: North Korea has developed a South Korean study found that its armed forces along the demilitarized zone. The paper Pyongyang as an "enemy" - and thus aggravated the tone toward the communist neighbor. Seoul - South Korea feels increasingly threatened by its neighbor North Korea: a study by the South Korean Defense Ministry, according to the communist country has deployed along the demilitarized zone, new tanks and increases the strength of its special forces to 200,000.
A bomb exploded outside a court in the Greek capital, Athens, Thursday, December 30. A phone call warning sent to a TV station and a newspaper had allowed the evacuation of the area. Police said the bomb exploded at 8 h 20 local time (7 h 20 to Paris). Television images showed smoke rising from the building before the trial court in Athens, several windows were shattered.
Russia has bought two warships Mistral in France. / FOCKE STRANGMANNLa construction by the French shipyards of two warships Mistral for the Russian army in Moscow will cost a total of 1.37 billion euros, according to a source familiar with the matter. The Mistral is a versatile warship able to carry helicopters and tanks, to host a field hospital or a staff on board.
It is a huge mine. Size and value but certain, but unknown dimensions. There are seams of varying sizes and qualities and exploited, at least partially. Then there are the veins that are known. As much as many governments have wanted to minimize the value of the unique findings, are abundant in number, quality and size of gemstones found so far.
U.S. visa revoked yesterday the ambassador of Venezuela in Washington, Bernardo Alvarez, said Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Temir Porras through Twitter. "I confirm. USA revoked the visa of Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez," said Porras. 
The United States has revoked the visa on Wednesday Venezuela's ambassador in Washington, Bernardo Alvarez, as reported by the Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Temir Porras through Twitter. "I confirm. USA revoked the visa of Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez," stated Porras. In a moment, and of great tension between the two countries, the decision to temporarily suspend diplomatic ties since the appointment of Larry Palmer as U.S.
President Obama has named Robert Ford ambassador to Syria. The post had been vacant since February 2005. With the appointment of Ford during the holiday recess of the Senate Obama bypasses the resistance of the Republicans in Congress - at least for now. Washington - The U.S. has an ambassador in Syria again.
Again Northern Europe, apparently again Islamists: Swedish and Danish investigators have arrested a suspected terrorist group. The men were heavily armed, the newspaper Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen attack - probably in revenge for the Mohammed cartoons. Copenhagen / Berlin - The alleged assassin of Copenhagen had not yet arrived in Denmark, since they already came to the attention of investigators: a gray Toyota Avensis should have hired three Swedish men with roots in the Middle East at a gas station in the Stockholm suburb of Kista on Tuesday with which they are then arrived in Denmark in order to make their accomplices.
The cartoonist Kurt Westergaard has been shaken over the attack plans on the Jyllands-Posten. The threat is not over, "he warned. The Danish newspaper had published five years ago, his controversial drawings. Berlin - "The foiled attack is a direct attack on democracy and press freedom," said Kurt Westergaard "Bild"-Zeitung.
In Cuba's prisons, there is no more death row inmates. The Supreme Judge of the communist state walked to the punishment of execution last candidate in a long prison term. Abolished the death penalty is not so. Havana - Cuba's recent death candidate, Humberto Eladio Real Cuban Americans Suárez escapes an execution.
With the Mohammed cartoons, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten famous - you now need the sheet to have been target of an attack. Five suspects were arrested. Denmark's Justice Minister said so far the most serious assassination attempt in the country. Copenhagen - Danish police have arrested four people for an alleged planned terrorist attack against the newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
The remains of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, who died Christmas Day at age 88 in Miami, will be repatriated to their country to be buried there. His second wife, Cecilia Matos, who never married and with whom he had two daughters, has accepted his transfer after his wife and six children of this marriage, living in Venezuela, presented Tuesday a lawsuit to prevent outside buried in the United States.