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Obama, Medvedev discuss arms treaty

By Mohammed Yahya on 12/14/2009 at 12:33am (UTC)

Obama, Medvedev discuss arms
treaty

US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev talked Saturday
about ongoing negotiations for a successor to an expired nuclear weapons treaty.

An Obama administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed
the two presidents talked by telephone about the negotiations, but had no
further details.

The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as START, expired Dec. 5. Both
governments have spent the past several months negotiating a new pact that would
further reduce the size of the nuclear arsenals on both sides.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said this past week that the two sides
are making progress.

The Kremlin statement said the two presidents "continued a detailed exchange of
opinions about the results achieved and the prospects of completing work on a
document that is of vital importance for strategic stability in the world."

Medvedev and Obama "noted with satisfaction that the work of the delegations of
both countries in Geneva has an intense and purposeful character that makes it
possible to speak of substantial progress in the negotiation process," the
statement continued.

The leaders "agreed to tell the negotiators to continue their energetic work
without lowering the level and pace of cooperation with the goal of reaching
final agreement on all issues," the statement said.

The expired START treaty, signed by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and
President George H.W. Bush, required each country to cut its nuclear warheads by
at least one-fourth, to about 6,000, and to implement procedures for verifying
that each side was sticking to the agreement.

Obama and Medvedev agreed at a Moscow summit in July to cut the number of
nuclear warheads each possesses to between 1,500 and 1,675 within seven years as
part of a broad new treaty

Brown in surprise visit to Afghanistan

By Mohammed Yahya on 12/14/2009 at 12:29am (UTC)

Brown in surprise visit to
Afghanistan

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, during a surprise visit to Afghanistan
Sunday, held talks with President Hamid Karzai in the volatile south of the
country.

Brown arrived on an unannounced visit two weeks after ordering 500 extra British
troops into the war alongside a surge of 30,000 American forces as part of a
sweeping new US strategy to turn around the eight-year war.

He held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at a military base in Kandahar,
the southern province where the Taliban was born and one of the deadliest
battlefields for NATO and US troops since the 2001 US-led invasion.

"I think it's very important to say that the combined effort of allied forces
with the Afghan government is the way we will defeat the insurgency, the way we
will stop Al-Qaeda having any space to operate in Afghanistan," he told a news
conference with Karzai.

"I think the next few months are obviously critical," Brown earlier told
reporters travelling with him.

Insurance companies pay victim’s families and compensate Yemenia

By Mohammed Yahya on 11/02/2009 at 2:37pm (UTC)

Insurance companies pay victim’s families and compensate Yemenia
Yemenia airlines will re-commence its flights to European capitals in December. The flights had been discontinued for a little less than two months, as a response to some financial problems faced by the company. According to an official source at the airlines, the company is now responding to governmental directives ordering the company to out its operations normally and with assurance of full government support, especially because the company is the national airlines of Yemen.
The 42nd general assembly of the Arab Air Transport Union has announced its solidarity with Yemenia, against the negative campaign the company has faced since the Comoros incident earlier in June this year. The assembly recommended the involvement of the union the Civil Aviation Arab Authority, along with the concerned European Commission figures, to stop this campaign, which could tint the good relations between the Arab and European aviation businesses.
The chairperson of Yemenia Board, Capitan Abdulkhaliq Al-Qadhi, confirmed during the 42nd assembly, that the Yemenia adheres to all international ‘aviation safety’ standards and that the issue is a priority for the company in all its operations, especially those of the technical departments such as operations, maintenance and passenger services.
According to Al-Qadhi, insurance companies have compensated the families of the victims, as well as the damaged aircraft’s, but unfortunately, the media was not informed of this.
“The compensation by the insurance companies is a clear indication that the tragic incident, in the Comoros, is not a result of ‘negligence’ by Yemenia. This is a response to all the parties which tried to defame Yemenia and stain our image in front our passengers and the international community. The compensation is a result of hard work in the investigation following the tragic incident, which as we all know now was not a result of an technical error,” he said.
Yemenia participated vigorously in the search efforts for the aircraft’s black box and eventually the investigation revealed that the plane, which was heading towards Mornoi Airport, fell before reaching the airport. The A310 aircraft took off from France and plunged into the Indian Ocean, on June 30, shortly after beginning its descent towards the Comoros. The aircraft was carrying mainly French and Comoran passengers.
According to Yemenia official resources, a rocket fired by the French navy training, in the Indian Ocean, caused the Yemenia Airways crash, in which 153 passengers and crew were killed. A 13-year-old girl was the only survivor. She was found clinging onto a floating wreckage of the aircraft.
Media reports since then included statements from international figures pointing fingers at Yemenia, indicating that the accident was due to a technical flaw, while the airlines defended its maintenance operations and asserting that the International Airbus Company had given Yemenia a certificate for its thorough maintenance.
Al-Qadhi confirmed Yemenia bringing new additions to its aviation fleet, responding to the increasing demand from passengers. He also confirmed that in 2015, ten new Airbus 350-800 crafts will be a part of the Yemenia fleet. Currently negotiations are underway to replace a few Airbus 310-300s with modern 320 crafts or with Boeing 800-737s.
“Yemenia is today, respected by passengers from all around the world and we appreciate the trust our passengers have in us. We will continue to work hard to ensure their comfort and safety. We are work around the clock to improve the capacities of our staff in order to promote Yemen’s image everywhere,” he said

New technique for alternative energy in rural areas

Mohammed Yahya on 10/30/2009 at 12:35pm (UTC)

The Ministry of Agriculture will start implementing a bio-gas production technique from animal waste in many governorates, said Dr.Mansoor Al-Aqel, General Director of Agricultural Guidance and Training at the Ministry in a statement to Al-Thawra, state-run daily newspaper.
The program will be carried out in the governorates of Lahj, Hadramout, Al-Mahra, Sana’a, Thamar, Al-Mahwit, and Taiz in the coming days until the end of the current year.
“The bio-gas production program aims to secure rural area families’ needs for energy from the bio-gas in house consumption,” Al-Aqel said.
Electricity power currently covers most of the people in Yemeni cities. But 75 percent of Yemenis dwell in the countryside, and only 8 percent get electricity, according to the reports of the Ministry of Electricity.
“We are preparing now to build around 12 bio-gas units in the targeted governorates and the program will cost around YR eight million (USD 40,000),” he said.
The program will be implemented by Agricultural Guidance Departments at the Offices of the Ministry in those governorates and it is funded by the Agriculture-Fisheries Production Encouragement Fund.
“In addition to creating and operating bio-gas units in the targeted governorates for rural families, the program also will train a cadre on how to design and operate such units,” said the director.
“During the implementation of the program, guidance activities on the bio-gas production technique, how to design, operate and benefit economically from this method will be presented to the heads of rural area families,” explained the director.
“The technique of producing bio-gas from animal waste also has side-benefits since the waste decomposes into an organic fertilizer that is free of insect borne diseases and useful to the soil,” the director pointed out.
“More than one neighboring houses family can share creating one bio-gas unit that costs between YR 200,000 and YR 250,000 (USD 1,000) the unit can long to 30 years.”
“This method is important since it provides an alternative power to rural families who are deprived from electricity and gas cylinders are difficult, and they are too expensive for mountainous areas,” he said adding that the fuel is economical.
“We have a bio-gas production unit next to our house and our kitchen is being operated by the gas that comes out from the unit,” said Abdo Ibraheem, head of a family in Mahwit who has his own a bio-gas production unit.
“It is an economical technique in providing cooking gas, as it costs us only the animal waste that we use it later as natural fertilizer to the soil,” he added.
The technique of producing gas from animal waste is a modern method that has been developed to accommodate the country's needs by agricultural research authorities in Yemen. It was found to be useful in Yemeni rural areas because bio-gas can be used for cooking and lighting.

Military and security units kill 15 rebels

Mohammed Yahya on 09/13/2009 at 10:56pm (UTC)

Military and security units have killed 15 elements of rebellion, while they tried to attack regions of al Manzalah, al-Mazraq Dhub and al Majda, 26sep.net reported on Sunday.

The army news website quoted a military source as saying that a number of rebels were also killed in clashes with citizens in al-Sawah region.

Moreover, the source added that the security forces arrested nine of rebels in Saada district who are now investigated by the authorities.

A local source in Saada said that rebels leaded by two terrorists Abdullah Yahya al-Hakam and Abdul Basat al-Hadi killed a child in Baqim district by shooting him in his head.

The source accused the rebels of killing six family members (mother and six children) in Sahar district few days ago, saying that corpses of the family are now in hospital of doctors without borders.

Father of the family who survived from the massacre along with his three- year old son, narrating criminal acts of the rebels against citizens such as kidnapping children and enforcing them to involve in fight against the army.

Yemen reports first death of Swine Flu

Mohammed Yahya on 08/19/2009 at 2:52pm (UTC)

(MYM CHANNEL) Public Health and Population Ministry announced on Wednesday the first death of H1N1 in the country.

Minister of Public Health and Population Abdul-Karim Rase'a confirmed the death of a new case was for a man, 40, from Dalei governorate.

The man, lived in the capital Sana'a, was suffered on August 10th from fever and slight cold and sent to the hospital on August 15, where his case was diagnosed as Pneumonia, the Minister said.

On August 16, the man's health got worse and was entered the intensive care, were his heath get much worse. He has not even responded to medications.

The hospital, on August 17, reported the Ministry on a H1N1-suspected case. The Ministry's epidemiological surveillance team took a laboratory sample and then gave him the first does of the N1H1's cure. However, he died at 10:45 PM on the same day.

The primary information showed that the man has not travelled outside the country but he had received one of his relatives returned from USA prior to getting sick.

Worth to mention is that the number of the N1H1-cases in Yemen has reached 16 people with two new cases announced on Tuesday.

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