Yemen Shiite rebels rally in Sanaa and vow 'escalation'
Sanaa (AFP) - Tens of thousands of supporters of Yemen's Shiite rebels demonstrated in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday, threatening escalation which their leader vowed would be "painful", an AFP correspondent reported. "The people want the government out ...
U.S. sends two prisoners to Yemen from Afghanistan
The U.S. government on Monday ended what appears to have been a four-year-long hiatus in the transfer of prisoners to Yemen, moving two men there from Afghanistan in what could be a precursor for releases of dozens of Yemenis held at Guantánamo Bay.
U.S. moves prisoners from Afghan prison to Pakistan, Yemen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has moved additional prisoners out of a small military prison in Afghanistan, bringing the number of people remaining at the U.S. detention centre near the Afghan capital to under 30, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
Yemen’s president warns rebels over mass rallies
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s president has warned Shiite rebels leading mass protests in the country’s capital that the United States and other world powers oppose the demonstrations. President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s remarks Wednesday, carried by ...
Yemen's rival protesters speak out
Sanaa, Yemen - After a week of mounting anti-government protests in Sanaa led by the Houthis, a rebel Shia movement from the north of the country, a counter-protest was organised by Islah, Yemen's biggest Sunni Islamist party and the Houthis' biggest ...
Yemen president urges Huthi rebels to leave Sanaa
Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi urged Shiite rebel leader Abdulmalik al-Huthi on Tuesday to withdraw his militant followers from the capital following the failure of negotiations on their demands. In a letter to the rebel chief, of which AFP has ...
Terrorism as Theater
August 27, 2014 | 0855 GMT By Robert D. Kaplan The beheading of American journalist James Foley by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq was much more than an altogether gruesome and tragic affair: rather, it was a very sophisticated and professional film production deliberately punctuated with powerf ...
Rebalancing of NASDAQ, S&P, and DJIA since 1999 (what are 10 to 20 of the stocks gone? Do the indicies mean anything?)
So much is being made of the financial engineering that has been sending various indices to "new highs". Yet if one goes back to 1999 (or nearly any year since) the number of companies dropped (and replaced by healthy companies as the dropped corporations are failing to the point of bankruptcy) make ...
