Amina Parakkal is a Class VI dropout, a very ordinary homemaker from Karasseri in rural Kozhikode. Ms. Amina began her diaries while recuperating from cancer and other illnesses around 2001. No one guessed that our mother had penned them,” said Ajmal Hadi, Ms. Amina’s younger son. Ms. Amina began writing to pass the time and to address issues with her …
Their attacks on Red Sea ships have brought them global attention. The PLC, backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is the biggest counterweight to the Houthis in Yemen. “The objective was to utilise this council to engage with the Houthis either militarily or through negotiations,” Raiman al-Hamdani, a Yemen researcher at the ARK Group, told Al Jazeera. …
SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s exiled president stepped aside and transferred his powers to a presidential council Thursday, as international and regional efforts to end the country’s long-running civil war gained momentum with a two-month truce. Peter Salisbury, Yemen expert at the International Crisis Group, described the power transfer as the “most consequential shift in the inner workings of the anti-Houthi …
