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Transcript Search in video 0:00 as history continues evolving with Time 0:01 new and old countries come in and out of 0:03 existence pretty much all the time 0:05 dozens of new UN recognized countries 0:07 have come into existence in only the 0:08 past 30 plus years since the Cold War 0:10 Began coming to a close back in 1990 and 0:12 as a result the world map has officially 0:14 changed dozens of times in many of our 0:16 lifetimes East Germany faded out of 0:18 existence in 1990 when it was legally 0:20 absorbed by West Germany...

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency doubts Yemen would be a tough ally of the U.S. in the fight on Al Qaeda at a time when the government is facing major challenges represented by the Houthi rebels in the far north and the secessionist movement in the south. The announcement by CIA director Leon Panetta comes after the U.S. said it had raised its military and financial development to Yemen to fight Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and boost its ailing economy, which experts say is a main reason for extremism in the country. The increase of the aid by...

In a speech during celebrations of his country's reunification, Yemen's President called for a national dialogue between the north and the south. Deadly clashes errupted in the port city of Aden, highlighting the explosive mood in the South...

Blog Note: The following blog entry is a quote: Larijani In Yemen On Reassurance Visit The London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reports that Iranian Majlis speaker Ali Larijani is visiting Yemen to reassure it regarding fears of Iranian involvement in rebel activity in southern Yemen, and regarding activity by the Houthis in the Sa'ada district in northern Yemen. Senior Yemeni officials have accused Iran of supporting the Houthis (see Yemeni Official: Iran Clearly Involved In Al-Houthi Rebellion). According to the report, Larijani told Yemen President Ali Abdallah Saleh that his country supported Yemen's stability and security. Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, May...

Special Dispatch - No. 2357 May 14, 2009 Library Named After Palestinian Suicide Bomber Wafa Idris Inaugurated at a Yemen Children's Hospital According to the Yemeni news website www.yemenportal.net, a library and conference hall named after Palestinian suicide bomber Wafa Idris have been inaugurated at a children's hospital in the province of Ibb in southern Yemen. [1] The inauguration ceremony was attended by Yemeni officials, and launched by Samir Al-Kuntar, of the Palestinian Liberation Front, who carried out a deadly attack in Nahariyya in 1974, and was recently released from Israeli prison. At the ceremony, speakers extolled the resistance and...

The leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Nasser Al-Wuhaishi declared on Wednesday his support for what he called "the rejection of oppression", referring to the protests which have been taking place since April in the southern cities. At least eight Yemenis, including four soldiers, have been killed in a week of unrest in Abyan, Lahj and Aldhala'a, where witnessed clashes between the government and groups of locals who complained that northerners have abused a unity agreement to grab their resources and discriminate against them, and raised slogans call for separating their governorates from Yemen, which was united in 1990....