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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh yesterday confirmed that his country possessed Scud missiles bought from North Korea.

Osama bin Laden's father-in-law is to be released soon, official sources said here yesterday.

Tens of Yemeni military officers, who took refuge in Syria after the 1994 Civil War, arrived at Aden International Airport yesterday.

A primary court yesterday sentenced three Yemenis accused of carrying out bombings in Aden last year to different jail terms.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh yesterday issued a decree for setting up the National Security Agency (NSA) in the country.

Yemen yesterday denied to have concluded a secret agreement with the United States to "launch a joint military campaign against elements affiliated to Al Qaida organisation" as reported yesterday.

Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni President yesterday kicked off the first stage of the security deployment plan in three governorates, east of the country, official sources said.

The Yemeni government has denied reports that the security forces, deployed in three governorates east of the country, have been trained by the United States, official sources said here.

The Yemen Supreme Elections Committee (SEC) will form committees to carry out the voter registration process from among school teachers instead of members of the political parties, official source said here.

A Yemeni committee made up of chief religious scholars is holding dialogue with the young people who returned from Afghanistan carrying extremist ideas

A veteran Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) leader was shot dead yesterday soon after addressing an annual gathering of the Islamic Islah Party, hailing its "openmindedness, tolerance and condemnation of terrorism."

The killer of Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) Secretary-General Jarallah Omar was identified here yesterday as Ali Ahmed Jarallah, a 40-year-old member of the Islamic Islah Party.