For Some in Yemen, Dashed Hopes
449091
SANAA, Yemen, Sept. 20 -- Former presidential candidate Sumayya Ali Rajja, her two children in tow, plodded from polling station to polling station Wednesday trying to take part in what she considered a historic moment: Yemen's first competitive presidential elections. But Rajja's frustration...
70617
The Palestinian president symbolized his people&#39;s desire for a homeland, but his corrupt rule and limited vision frustrated their drive for statehood.
302480
The number of men held at Guantanamo Bay is declining rapidly, but there is no way out for most of the Yemeni detainees because their homeland's government and Washington are mired in a diplomatic impasse over security concerns.
710338
SANAA, 30 September 2004 - A Yemeni court sentenced two Al-Qaeda supporters to death yesterday and handed down prison terms of five to ten years to four others for the October 2000 suicide attack on the US destroyer USS Cole off the southern Yemeni coast
728387
Gun-wielding tribesmen. Al Qaeda attacks. Kidnappings of Westerners. Yemen has long conjured up images of wild badlands, fit only for the intrepid traveler.
48970
Men wearing traditional daggers at their waists and women in head-to-toe black dress cast ballots Wednesday as Yemen's long-ruling president faced a serious challenger at the polls for the first time.
356257
YANGON, Myanmar  - Aung San Suu Kyi's pleas are  falling on deaf ears these days.
214323
Yemenis are voting in elections seen as a test of government commitment to reform.
318201
The Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunal is adjourned after a Yemeni prisoner asks to defend himself.
459477
The Iraqis who signed up to help the Americans are losing faithâand often their lives. One family's story.
234690
Five bandaged survivors of a suicide bombing at a Yemeni temple returned home Wednesday &#151; one carried on a stretcher &#151; along with the bodies of seven fellow tourists who died in the attack.
629383
Yemeni opposition parties threatened Friday to call a massive street protest to dispute partial election results that show their presidential candidate losing by a wider margin than expected.
416498
Saudi rulers may have breathed a sigh of relief when protests calling for change were thwarted this week but reformists, scholars and even royal family members say the challenge will not go away.
331075
Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum. By Ben Lynfield | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
307116
Some wore buckets on their heads, others swung sticks, and those who could sheltered indoors, praying for an end to the locust invasion which yesterday swept through Mauritania&#39;s capital, Nouakchott.
523208
A Yemeni court on Saturday sentenced one militant to death and 14 others to prison terms of three to 10 years on terror charges, according to local reports.
249656
Yemen foiled two attempted attacks on oil   and gas facilities on Friday, the country's state news agency   said.