Prime Minister, Salem Saleh Bin Braik, launched the first phase of an emergency national campaign to vaccinate children against polio in the temporary capital, Aden.
The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has risen to 55,297, with 128,426 injured, the Ministry of Health in afflicted Palestinian enclave said. The majority of the victims are women and children.
U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed his intention to increase tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum from 25% to 50%, which will increase pressure on steel producers worldwide and threaten to escalate his trade war.
Saudi Al-Hilal FC has been eliminated from the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup after suffering a 2-1 defeat to Fluminense FC from Brazil in the quarterfinals. The match was held at the Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida.
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The government has approved a rise in the payment of civil servants effective from September 2018, as per the directives of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Earlier in the month Hadi had ordered a 30% increase in salaries to alleviate the impact of the sharp fall in the Riyal valuein light of along running armedHouthi insurgency.
Discussing Hadi's directives in a meeting in Aden on Sunday, the deputy premier and interior minister Ahmed al-Maysari and the ministers of Civil Service and Finance approved the new increasestarting from September's salary which will be paid next week.
Al-Maysari said the government is exerting enormous efforts to address the causes of the Riyal depreciation and salvage the economy by implementing a set of measures.