On Sunday, the American embassy in Yemen closed as a result of the ongoing threats from Al-Qaeda about attacking the US interests, as has been confirmed by the embassy.

Washington - The apparent suicide of a Yemeni detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison on Cuba was under investigation, the US military announced Tuesday.

Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Salih, 31, was found "unresponsive and not breathing" during a routine check late Monday evening, the Joint Task Force-Guantanamo said in a statement on the US Southern Command website.

Sana'a, Yemen - Yemeni authorities are preparing to relocate dozens of Jewish families from two towns to the capital Sana'a amid threats to target Jews in retaliation for the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, state media reported Saturday.

Sana'a, Yemen - Somali pirates hijacked a Yemeni tanker ship carrying more than 2,000 tonnes of diesel in the Arabian Sea on Saturday, Yemen's Defence Ministry said.

The ship was en route from the Gulf of Aden to the south-eastern port of Nashtoon when the pirates attacked it and diverted it to the Somali coast, the ministry said in a brief statement posted on its website.

Paris/Sana'a - The French naval prevented a pirate attack on a freighter in the Gulf of Aden and handed over eight suspected pirates to Somali authorities, French officials reported Friday.

A French warship, part of the EU Atalanta anti-piracy mission, intervened after the captain of the Panama-flagged freighter sent several emergency signals.

Sana'a, Yemen  - Somali pirates have released a second Yemeni fishing ship without ransom, more than two weeks after they hijacked the two ships in the Gulf of Aden, the commander of Yemen's coast guard force said in remarks published Friday.

Sana'a, Yemen - Scores of protesters angry with Egypt backing the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip broke into the Egyptian consulate in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden Tuesday.

Witnesses said the protesters stormed the three-storey building and hoisted the Palestinian flag on the roof after they burned the Egyptian flag.

Sana'a, Yemen - Around 9,000 women took the street in Sana'a Monday against the Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, and called on Arab leaders to "open doors for Jihad."

The women carried placards condemning the Israeli attacks and the Arabs' "silence" towards those attacks.

Sana'a, Yemen - Yemen said on Thursday it was "disappointed" at the appeal by US authorities against a court verdict overthrowing terrorism convictions handed down on two Yemeni clerics.

Sana'a, Yemen  - A German couple, taken hostage by tribesmen in western Yemen for five days and released Friday, left Yemen for Frankfurt early Tuesday, airport sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

The sources said Heinrich Thielebein and his wife boarded a Turkish Airlines plane to Istanbul, where they were to catch another flight to Frankfurt.