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Yemen: Ma'rib Situation Update No. 1, 27 February 2021 [EN/AR] Format SITUATION OVERVIEW Intense clashes which broke out in several districts of Ma'rib Governorate in the first week of February 2021 have continued, leading to the displacement of more than 8,000 civilians. Initial field reports indicate massive displacement within Ma'rib Governorate, especially from Sirwah District, which has seen the heaviest fighting. Ma'rib Governorate already hosts an estimated one million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) – the largest IDP population in Yemen according to local authorities – and som...

Attorney Duane A. Evans will serve as Interim United States Attorney Share Updated: 5:46 PM CST Feb 26, 2021 WDSU Digital Team Share Updated: 5:46 PM CST Feb 26, 2021 WDSU Digital Team The United States Attorney's Office has named an interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Assistant U.S Attorney Duane A. Evans will serve as Interim United States Attorney and his appointment will take effect on March 1.“I am grateful to the Department of Justice for the opportunity to once again serve the citizens of the Eastern D...

AL-MUKALLA: Hundreds of Yemeni families trapped inside their camps in Marib province by Iran-backed Houthis are being used as a human shield against government forces, a Yemen government unit has claimed. In a report seen by Arab News on Saturday, the internationally recognized government’s Executive Unit for IDP Camps said that militia fighters had besieged camps and planted land mines on main roads to stop families escaping and hinder advancing troops. “Houthis have prevented 470 families from fleeing, using them as human shields. Until today, many families in the camps are still trappe...

AL-MUKALLA: The Yemeni army has urged the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to help retrieve the bodies of Houthi fighters abandoned on battlefields in the central province of Marib and the northern province of Jouf. Military spokesman Abdu Abdullah Majili told Arab News on Tuesday that dozens of corpses of Houthi fighters have been left in conflict zones in Jouf and Marib as the Iran-backed militia presses ahead with a major offensive to recapture the oil and gas-rich city of Marib. “We demand the International Committee of the Red Cross mount pressure on the Houthis to retri...

An independent group of Romanian experts launches AI4RO, an initiative to supporting the development of Artificial Intelligence in Romania Mihai Cristea 21/12/2020 | 17:31 At the initiative of the Secretary of State for Communications, Dragoș Preda and with the support of a group of Romanian experts, an independent initiative group was set up to support the development of Artificial Intelligence in Romania. AI4RO aims to encourage advanced research in the field of AI, as well as to develop a series of programs in this regard together with its members and partners.   ...