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Overnight, five more Guantanamo Bay detainees were released from American custody as the process of emptying out the prison facility accelerates. That brings the total of Guantanamo detainees released just this month to nine. “The two men from Tunisia and three from Yemen — who have been at the camp for a dozen years — had been cleared for release from the prison by a government task force but could not be sent to their homelands,” Fox News reported on Wednesday.Of the approximately 800 Guantanamo prisoners who were housed in that facility during the Bush administration, only 127 now remain....

Three killed, 16 wounded in S. Yemen MIL-YEMEN-FESTIVAL-DEATH Three killed, 16 wounded in S. Yemen SANAA, Jan 13 (KUNA) -- At least three people were killed and 16 others were wounded on Sunday in the southern city of Adan when chaos broke out during the "Tolerance and Conciliation Festival" marking the 22nd anniversary of the 1986 massacre by the Socialist Party which ruled the then South Yemen. Security sources told KUNA that "infiltrators" sparked off a sound bomb and, in the commotion, took control over a machine gun and opened fire randomly at those present. The perpetrators were apprehended, the...