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Can Indian nurse Nimisha Priya be saved from the noose after Yemen sets July 16 execution date?
The clock has run out on Indian nurse Nimisha Priya. The 37-year-old from Kerala’s Palakkad district will be executed on July 16 after being convicted for the murder of a Yemeni national. Her family say that they haven’t received word on the...

[Yemeni Rial Plunges to Historic Low, Deepening Economic and Humanitarian Crisis
Aden — Yemeni rial has plummeted to a record low of 2,760 per U.S. dollar, marking the steepest collapse in the currency’s value since the outbreak of civil war in 2015. The unprecedented depreciation has triggered a wave of economic panic and...

BLOOD RED SEA: Houthis Stage Second Deadly Attack to Cargo Ship in 2 Days, as Rebel Yemeni Group Releases Complete Video of the Attack and Sinking of ‘Magic Seas’ (WATCH)
Houthis release footage of the attack and sinking of the Magic Seas cargo ship, that happened on July 6. Second ship attack in two days by the Houthis turns deadly. If anyone still had any doubts that the Houthis have once again become a real...
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Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya to be executed on July 16 for murdering Yemeni national
Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who was jailed for killing a Yemeni national, will be executed on July 16, according to a report, citing a social activist. According to a News 18 report, citing Kerala-based news outlet Onmanorama, human rights...

Nimisha Priya, Kerala nurse convicted in Yemen, to be executed July 16
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, convicted of the 2017 murder of Yemeni national Talal Abdo Mehdi, is scheduled to be executed on July 16, following three years in a Yemeni prison. Negotiator S J Bhaskaran has announced his...

Markets Await Trade Deals as Trump Makes New Tariff Threats
Dollar edges higher, gold slips despite confusion and renewed trade tensions Trump delays tariff deadline to August 1, says trade deals are close Wall Street hits record after Congress passes Big Beautiful Bill Oil recovers from lows after OPEC+...

India Engaged In Efforts To Halt Execution Of Indian Nurse Nimisha Priya In Yemen On July 16
(MENAFN- Live Mint) India is engaged in efforts to prevent the execution of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse convicted in a murder case in Yemen whose death sentence is set to be carried out on July 16, news agency PTI said quoting people familiar...
Launch of Small Business Support Project for Victims of Aggression Remnants in Hodeidah
Launch of Small Business Support Project for Victims of Aggression Remnants in Hodeidah [Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:24:14 +0300] Hodeidah (Saba) – The Yemeni Red Crescent Society in Hodeidah Governorate launched a project to distribute financial grants...

Nimisha Priya, Kerala Nurse On Death Row In Yemen, To Be Executed On July 16
Last Updated:July 08, 2025, 20:32 IST Nimisha Priya, a nurse from Kerala, will be executed on July 16 for murdering Yemeni national Talal Abdo Mahdi. She moved to Yemen in 2008 and opened a clinic in 2015. Priya, who hails from Kerala’s Palakkad...

Two crew dead after second ship attacked off Yemen
Three crew members of a Greek-operated bulk carrier have been killed in an attack by sea drones and speedboats off Yemen, an EU mission and a delegation from Liberia told a meeting of the UN shipping agency IMO on Tuesday. The Eternity C, a...

Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya on death row in Yemen to be executed on July 16: Reports
Nimisha Priya, a 37-year-old Indian nurse from Kerala, is scheduled to be executed on July 16 for killing a Yemeni national, according to reports. A trial court convicted her of murder and the decision was upheld by the country's Supreme Judicial...

World Bank Classifies Nigeria as Lower-Middle Income Economy, Below Libya and Gabon
Advertisements The World Bank has reaffirmed Nigeria’s status as a Lower-Middle Income Economy (LMIE) in its 2025/2026 country income classification, placing it below conflict-affected Libya and resource-rich Gabon. While Nigeria remains in the...

Drone attack on ship off Yemen claims three lives
LONDON: Three seafarers on the Liberian-flagged, Greek-operated bulk carrier Eternity C were killed in a drone and speedboat attack off Yemen, an official with the EU naval mission Aspides said on Tuesday, the second incident in a day after months...

Kerala nurse faces execution next week in Yemen
Indian nurse Nimisha Priya is due to be executed in Yemen on 16 July. The date was confirmed by social worker Samuel Jerome Baskaran, who is in Yemen working to save her life. “The public prosecutor had issued the letter of prosecution to the jail...
Viral Claims 'World Will Go Dark' Aug. 2 Debunked, But 'Eclipse Of Century' On Horizon
Despite viral online chatter, astronomers confirm there’s no solar eclipse scheduled for Aug. 2, 2025. The confusion, experts say, comes from anticipation for an extraordinary astronomical event — the genuine "eclipse of the century" — that's...

Nimisha Priya, Indian nurse on death row in Yemen, to be executed next week
Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who has been convicted of the murder of Yemeni citizen Talal Abdo Mehdi, is set to be executed on July 16.Samuel Jerome Baskaran, a social worker who is currently involved in negotiations with government officials in...
The Unfinished Business of Nation Building in Ethiopia and the Conflicted Roles of Its Intellectuals and Scholars
Aklog Birara (Dr) February 4. 2022 “In broadening the debate about a country’s trajectory beyond the usual group of elite decision makers, national dialogues offer the potential for meaningful conversation about the underlying drivers of conflict...

Yemeni coffee shop Ebreeq opens in Cleveland’s Public Square
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Ebreeq, a new independent coffee shop, is bringing Yemen’s rich coffee history to Northeast Ohio. The shop quietly opened in May on Public Square. Often overlooked, Yemen is a significant place in coffee’s history. While the...

Confused by UAE's corporate tax? You should never stop trying to learn
From the library to Wikipedia to conversational artificial intelligence chatbots, how we research questions and interrogate the information we retrieve has evolved. I am old enough to have lived through all three mediums. Not without its health...
Kerala nurse, on death row in Yemen, set to be executed on July 16
Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse who is on death row after being convicted for the murder of a Yemeni national, will be executed on July 16. Hailing from Kollengode town in Kerala’s Palakkad, Priya’s capital punishment was approved by the Yemeni...