Minister of Endowments Ahmed Atiyatold Saba that the transportation of the Yemeni pilgrims and their rite of ascension to Arafat hill in Mecca for this year's Hajj has come to an end with no accidents reported.

President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi has sent a cable of congratulations to his Algerian counterpart Abdulaziz Bouteflika on the occasion of Eid al-Adhaha festivity.

Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin-Daghr paid a visit on Friday to the headquarters of Saudi forces in the Arab Coalition base in Aden. He was received by the Staff Brigadier Sultan bin Islam and a group of high ranking officers.

Yemen has called on the United Nations to intervene in order to secure the release of Yemeni journalists in custody of the Saleh-Houthi rebel militias.

Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin-Daghr has launched a portal for receiving citizens' day-to-day complaints electronically so as to get them addressed and resolved.

The international silence is emboldening the Saleh-Houthi alliance to kill more children and women in Taiz,Yemen's top relief official Abduraqeeb Fatah said on Wednesday.

Yemeni pilgrims and pilgrims from all over the world have arrived in Mina today Wednesday , where they will spend the Tarwiya day and proceed tomorrow to another shrine, Arafat.

Yemen's Ambassador to Austria, HaythamShojaaAddeen, has acquainted Suleiman al-Herbish, the Director General of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), on the reconstruction in the parts already retaken by the Yemeni government.

The Security Committee of Taiz has discussed the crackdown on assassins and other criminals on the wanted list in a meeting held in the city and chaired by the Commander of Taiz Military Axis Maj. Gen. Khaled al-Fadhel.

Foreign Minister Abdul-Malik al-Mekhlafi has discussed with the Egyptian Minister of Higher Education Khaled Abdulghaffar the aspects of cooperation especially the field of education.

Torrential rains have killed 18 persons as the floodwater swept away everything in its way including scores of vehicles in Almaqatera valley, in southwestern Taiz.

The Governor of Abyan Abu Bakr Salem has handed over YR 5.5 million (approximately USD 14666)compensations to families of persons killed in an errant missile strike from a US military ship in 2009.

Yemen's ambassador to Beirut Abdullah Addoays and Deputy Minister Naser Shareef told the newly appointed Executive Secretary of the ESCWA that Yemen is looking forward to more coordination with the UN organization especially in this period of time when reconstruction of the war-ravaged Yemeni cities needs to start.

Vice President Lt. Gen. Ali Mohsen Saleh has briefed the US Ambassador to Yemen, Matthew H. Tueller, on Yemen's struggles to counter the challenges of coup d'état and its catastrophic consequences; extremism; and terrorism in all its forms.

Yemen's Ambassador to China Mohammed al-Mekhlafi has called on Chinese investors, public and private, to come to invest and contribute to investments in Yemen.

The National Committee for Investigation into Human Rights Violation Claims has reported that the claims of violations collected from all Yemeni provinces amount to 17,123 claims attributed to all warring parties.

The Minister of Interior Ma. Gen. Mohammed Hussein Arab and the US ambassador to Yemen Matthew H. Tueller have discussed in a meeting on Monday the security cooperation on all levels including the fight against terrorism.

The Supreme Court chief Hamoud al-Hitar has said that the prosecutions, appellate and primary courts of Aden have been sorting and setting schedules for all civil cases, administrative , penal, commercial and personal, to get them resolved.

A Yemeni organization known as the Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations (YCMHRV) has strongly condemned the latest Saleh-Houthi militias' massacre which killed and injured 14 civilians in Beer Basha, Taiz, on Sunday.

President Abdu R. Mansour Hadi has praised the US administration's support for Yemen's unity and for countering the challenges of coup d'état, extremism and terrorism in all its forms.