Speaker of Parliament Sultan al-Barakani along with Deputy Speaker Mohssen BaSarrah and Heads of Parliamentary blocs held discussions today, Sunday, with the UN's Envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg over the ongoing peace efforts.
The official spokesman for the Palestinian Presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, warned of the dangerous escalation of the Israeli occupation authorities, in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the attack on citizens in its squares and in the alleys and lanes of the Old City of Al-Quds.
Oil prices rose in early Asian trade on Monday after US leaders reached a tentative agreement on the government's debt ceiling, which could prevent a catastrophic default in the world's largest economy and oil consumer.
FC Barcelona won the Spanish Football League title, after defeating its neighbor Espanyol by four goals to two, to settle the struggle for the La Liga title, four rounds before the end of the competition.
A Yemeni youth delegation from youth voluntary organizations is participating in the Arab-African Forum on voluntary youth and business leaders, which kicked off its activities on Sunday with participation of 24 Arab and African countries.
The forum tends to convergence of Arab- African youth's views, exchange expertise in fields of voluntary work and businesses, studying initiatives to come out from the forum for implementing some of them and introducing challenges and difficulties facing development in Arab and African worlds.
The opening activities included a film on Egypt and another on activities of Arab Union for Voluntary Work, as well as a film on Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports' activities in field of voluntary work.