YouTube deletes thousands of Anwar al-Awlaki videos in “extremism” clampdown
YouTube has removed nearly 50,000 videos featuring controversial American preacher, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
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Yemenis protest after US drone strike kills 17 in wedding convoy
Angry relatives of Yemeni civilians killed in a drone strike, which Sanaa insists hit Al-Qaeda chiefs, escalated their protest over the weekend, blocking a...
US Yemen drones strengthening Al Qaeda
As Arab and Western capitals follow developments in Egypt after the ouster of elected president Mohammed Morsi, south of the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen is...
Kenyans infuriated over Britain’s banning of khat
Despite their majority Muslim population, Somalis and Arabs provide the largest market for khat in the world, writes Mohammed Kahiye from Nairobi.
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