Yemeni gunmen, loyal to the Shiite Muslim Huthi movement that controls Sanaa, stand guard on December 5, 2014 outside the damaged house of the Iranian ambassador in the Yemeni capital Sanaa (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)/ Tehran (AFP) - An Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Yemen has been freed and ...
A Shi'ite Houthi rebel in police uniform stands guard on a wall in downtown Sanaa Oct. 8, 2014. (Reuters)/ An Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Yemen has been freed and returned to Tehran on Thursday, official media reported. Nour-Ahmad Nikbakht was seized in July 2013 while leaving his home in ...
An Iranian diplomat held hostage in Yemen since 2013 returned home on Thursday following an intelligence operation to free him, Iranian state media reported, days after a kidnapped Saudi Arabian diplomat was freed in Yemen. Noor Ahmad Nikbakht, who was abducted by unidentified attackers in the ...
Iran said Thursday that a team of special operatives has freed an Iranian diplomat abducted more than 19 months ago in Yemen, a rare acknowledgement by Tehran of an intel operation carried out on foreign soil. The official IRNA news agency quoted deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian as ...
Iran's official news agency says that special operatives have freed an Iranian diplomat abducted more than 19 months ago in Yemen. IRNA quotes deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian as saying the intelligence officers carried out a "difficult and complicated operation" to secure the ...
An Iranian diplomat kidnapped and held in Yemen for almost 20 months has been freed and arrived Thursday back in Tehran, officials said. Iranian authorities credited an “intelligence operation” for the liberation of the diplomat, Nour Ahmad Nikbakh, but declined to provide specifics./ The freed ...
An Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Yemen in July 2013 has been released and returned home, state media said Thursday. Noor Ahmad Nikbakht was working at the Iranian embassy in Sana'a when suspected al-Qaida militants abducted him. Iran's deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs Hossein ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's official news agency says that special operatives have freed an Iranian diplomat abducted more than 19 months ago in Yemen. IRNA quotes deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian as saying the intelligence officers carried out a "difficult and complicated ...
Disability Rights UK has said extending fraud detection to bank accounts could lead to a situation comparable to the Horizon IT debacle./ Supporters of Disabled People Against Cuts and Winvisible protest against deaths caused by benefit cuts and sanctions at the Department for Work and Pensions ...
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk. A photo of the 22-year-old Shani’s twisted body in the back of a pickup truck ricocheted around the world and ...
The latest Social Security Trustees report spurs angst about the program's solvency./ The new report on Social Security, which predicts that the combined retirement and disability trust fund reserves in 2035, has put more Americans on edge, especially those nearing retirement who are worrying ...
A homeless man on parole for an assault conviction dragged a jogger by her hair on a beach near before attempting to rape her earlier this week, police said. The alleged incident occurred at around 7:15 a.m. on the Ocean Front Walk in Santa Monica. Witnesses told a 911 dispatcher that a woman, ...
's administration said Thursday it will now cost more than $20 billion to build a giant tunnel aimed at catching more water when it rains and storing it to better prepare for longer droughts caused by climate change. State regulators have been trying to build some version of for decades. The ...
A former Orlando police officer, David Arenas, passed away earlier this week after jumping into Lake Minneola in Clermont. Arenas served with the department from 1992 until his retirement as a lieutenant in 2020. The tragic incident occurred on Monday, May 13, while Arenas was enjoying the water ...
Colonial Williamsburg American Revolution Barracks/ WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia have uncovered what is believed to be the remains of a military barracks from the Revolutionary War, including chimney bricks and musket balls indented with soldiers' teeth. The site is on the ...
Watch a previous NBC4 report on O’Charley’s Ohio closures in the video player above. ) — A national steakhouse, which once operated several central Ohio restaurants that shuttered after the chain filed for bankruptcy, is returning to Columbus after purchasing a former O’Charley’s that closed ...
on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the CFPB is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court and drawing praises from consumers. wrote the majority opinion, ...