Hadi died at his residence at age 80 on Thursday in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, but gave no other details. Hadi was the internationally recognised president of Yemen who led a fractured government mostly from exile for eight years as the country descended into civil war and famine before stepping down in 2022.
Yemen's Saudi-backed presidential leadership council has issued a decree to form a new government, with Shaya Mohsen Zindani confirmed as the country's prime minister. Zindani will also continue to serve as foreign minister, the state-run news agency Saba reported on Friday. Last month, the council accepted the resignation of former Prime Minister Salem bin Breik and asked Zindani to form a cabinet. Marwan Faraj bin Ghanim was named as minister of finance, while Mohamed Abdullah Ali was confirmed as oil minister.
The attack on Wednesday targeted a convoy carrying Hamdi Shukri, a commander in the pro-government Giants Brigades, Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council said in a statement carried by state-run media. The bombing was a desperate attempt to undermine efforts to stabilise the security situation in the country at a time when tangible progress was being made with the support of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi-backed council said.
It's been more than six years since Ali Hassan Ali Bakhtiyan was released from a secret prison in eastern Yemen's Hadramout Governorate, but he cannot forget the horrors he underwent during his more than two years in detention. It was a very bitter and extremely painful experience, the 30-year-old man said, adding he was lodged inside the secret prison run by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and local Yemeni troops called the Hadrami Elite Forces (HEF) inside Hadramout's Presidential Palace.
The Secretary's transmission of nonpublic operational information over Signal to an uncleared journalist and others 2 to 4 hours before planned strikes using his personal cell phone exposed sensitive DoD information. Using a personal cell phone to conduct official business and send nonpublic DoD information through Signal risks potential compromise of sensitive DoD information, which could cause harm to DoD personnel and mission objectives.
Thirty one journalists and media staff were killed by Israeli strikes on newspaper offices in Yemen last week in what the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Friday was the deadliest attack on journalists in the last 16 years. Israel struck a newspaper complex in Sana'a, Yemen's capital, which housed three Houthi-connected media outlets on 10 September. At the time, members of the Yemeni army's press arm were finishing the weekly print edition, according to the publication's editor-in-chief, which increased the number of journalists present during the strike.
'The way the object is described, as a glowing, bright, luminous sphere, like an orb, is unlike anything we currently have,' he said. 'It moves in a fast, straight line, making it trackable, yet shows no visible signs of propulsion such as exhaust plumes or rotors, almost like a plasma object.'
In a dimly lit, suffocatingly hot gym in Yemen, bodybuilder Saleh Hussein al-Raidi wraps his hands around rusty barbells, training with steely-eyed resolve for his dream of entering major competitions abroad. But the 24-year-old, who works two jobs to support his family, lacks the means to buy the supplements and protein-rich foods he needs to build bulk, setting him up for a more gruelling fight than many of his opponents.
