Word: yemen
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...TREATY] International Criminal Court Treaty [GENERAL PURPOSE] To establish a court with jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes [OTHER HOLDOUTS] China, Iraq, Libya, Qatar, Yemen, Israel...
With Concordes and private jets at the ready, other tour operators are pitching packages so wealthy globe-trotters can watch the New Age dawn against decidedly Old Age backdrops--Yemen, for example. Jump aboard a private jet with R. Crusoe & Son of Chicago for one of its millennium sojourns, and you will also get to see Mali's river-port city of Mopti and the minimalist infrastructure of Timbuktu...
Passengers will explore such remote areas as Angkor, Cambodia and the Republic of Yemen--the land of the legendary Queen of Sheba...
There are also concrete, practical arguments against the death penalty and its application. Of the six countries that execute people for crimes committed as children--Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran and the United States--the U.S. has executed more children than any of the others: 160 since 1973. This monstrosity occurs despite the fact that every major international human rights treaty expressly prohibits executing people for committing crimes before...
...terrorist" with a fat wallet and a big mouth. His followers were a loosely bound group of former Afghan freedom fighters called al Qaeda, meaning (military) base. But bin Laden was moving into the big leagues. Al Qaeda operatives or sympathizers are accused of attacking American soldiers in Somalia, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. They had plans to kidnap U.S. military personnel in the Persian Gulf, and they might have U.S.-made Stinger missiles left over from the Afghan war. Worse, intelligence officials discovered that by 1993 bin Laden had begun hunting for nuclear weapons. First on his shopping list...