Vice President (Lt Gen) Ali Mohssen Saleh held a meeting Thursday here with the Chief of Staff, Maj. General Taher Al-Aqaili and a number of high rank military commanders.

Yemen's Ambassador to Cairo Dr Mohammed Ali Marm contributed a workshop organized by Arab League (AL) and UN's Organization Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The workshop held Thursday in the headquarters of AL in Cairo with the aim of discussing the humanitarian situation in the Middle East and North Africa and humanitarian crisises in Palestine, Libya and Iraq.

Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Dr Mohammed Assa'adi discussed Thursday several agreements and contracts with a delegation of the Kuwaiti Fund for Relief (KRF). The Kuwaiti delegation who is on a visit to our country at present headed by Chairman of Relief Committee in the Kuwaiti Association for Relief Eng. Jamal Annoori.

Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, the Vice-Chair of the Supreme Committee for Relief Aid Ebtihaj al-Kamal met the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Acting Director Michael Wyzan in Riyadh on Thursday.

Justice Minister Jamal Mohamed Omar chaired a meeting of Supreme Institute of Judiciary (SIJ) board in the interim capital Aden.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned the Houthi militia's attack against a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea, saying it shows the continued threat Houthis pose to international shipping.

The speaker of the Arab parliament, Dr. Meshaal al-Salami stressed that the Houthi attack on oil tankers in the Red Sea is a terrorist act and a serious threat to global peace and security.

Yemeni Government has strongly condemned the Houthi putschist militia's attacks on the two giant oil tankers in owned by the Saudi national company for marine transport. The two tankers were targeted while each one laden with 2 mill barrels of crude oil after the passed over Bab Al-Mandab Strait in the Red Sea Wednesday morning.

Yemen's Ambassador to Ankara, Abdullah Al-Saadi, reiterated the keenness of government to securing peace with the Houthi rebels, as was manifest through its participations in the different rounds of peace talks held in Geneva, Biel and Kuwait.

A seminar called for by the Female Peace Makers, a Yemeni NGO, in the city of Marib has criticized the international community's silence for the crimes of the Houthi militia against Yemen's children in spite of the militia's consistent practice of these severe abuses.

Prime Minister Dr Ahmed Obeid Bin-Dagher held met Thursday in Amman with his Jordanian counterpart Omer Ahmed Arrazaz.

Vice President Lt. Gen. Ali Mohsen said that the Houthiattack against a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea waters west of the Yemeni port of Hodeidahis a terrorist act.

Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Interior Ahmad al-Maisari met on Wednesday with dignitaries and social figures of Mahra Province and discussed with them issues associated with security and coordination with the different security apparatus and the dignitaries.

The International Committee of the Red Cross and Yemen's Foreign Ministry have denied circulating reports that a new head of the ICRC delegation in Yemen had presented his credentials to the Houthis in Sana'a.

The Yemeni military shot down a Houthi unmanned drone in Almalajem district in the country's central province of Al Baydhaa.

Yemen's acting ambassador to Hungary HammadDahan discussed with the Director of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Department at the Hungarian Foreign Affairs Ministry Andras Kovacs the bilateral cooperation in educational, cultural and economic fields.

Spokesperson of the Saudi-led Arab Coalition Forces, Colonel TUrki Al-Maliki said" A Saudi –oil tanker was targeted by Houthi-Iranian attack in the International Waters west of Hodeidah seaport controlled by Iran-allied Houthi putschist militia. The attack failed due to immediate intervention by the Coalition navy forces, the tanker suffered slight damages".

The Government has set up professional team work from Ministry of Local Administration and General Secretariat of Council of Ministers to pay field inspection visit to the government-held provinces. The team is tasked with inspecting situations and local authorities' performance with the aim of improving the basic services and peoples' living conditions through empowering local authorities apparatuses and capacities.

Council of Ministers has endorsed a draft of a decision for relocating the headquarters of the High Authority for Medicines and Medical Requirements from Sana'a to the interim capital Aden. The bill submitted by Ministry of Public Health and Population.

The Social Fund for Development (SFD) in Mukalla, in cooperation with education and health office here, organized a workshop on boosting psychological and social support to crises' victims.