Yemen

Ownership of two stone sculptures dating back to the third millennium BC will be transferred from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the country, but the objects will remain on loan to the museum

According to International Committee of Red Cross, the country has one of the highest rates of contamination from landmines and other deadly explosives, along with Iraq and Afghanistan, with a dramatic impact on people, their safety and livelihoods

Lightning killed 45 people in Yemen in July, according to FAO; local media reported almost the same number of lightning-related deaths in August

Yemen is among the countries that have been granted free visitor visas by Iraq

The transfer of more than one million barrels of oil from an old oil tanker moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen has been completed, averting an environmental disaster, the United Nations said

Yemen's military officials said the Iranian-backed Houthis launched attacks on government troops outside the besieged city of Taiz and fired reconnaissance drones

The Ministry of Fisheries of the Yemen National Salvation Government condemned the attack on a Yemeni fisherman and the arrest of hundreds of Yemeni fishermen in Eritrean prisons and the confiscation of their boats

The Saudi aid agency KSrelief is providing humanitarian aid to Yemen, with the Masam project and the prosthetic limb program for those injured by explosions

The Yemeni and Pakistani student societies of the Eastern Mediterranean University organised their traditional cultural evenings, during which Yemeni dances, music and plays were performed

Abda Sharif, a lawyer and diplomat, has been appointed as the UK's new ambassador to Yemen; following the start of the war in late 2014, the UK closed its embassy in Sanaa and relocated its ambassador and staff to Riyadh

The issue of landslides to which public roads are exposed, the damage that roads in capital cities and provinces suffer from rainfall and flooding, and road accidents caused by holes and traffic have been addressed by the House of Representatives

The food security situation in Yemen's government-controlled districts has "slightly improved" in the first five months of this year, but acute malnutrition is on the rise