SANAA Ahkello Witherspoon Shirt , July 10 (Xinhua) -- A Yemeni security court has sentenced to death four Saudi nationals convicted of belonging to terrorist al-Qaida organization and beheading 14 Yemeni soldiers in an attack in southeast of the country in 2014, the rebel Houthi-run al-Masirah television channel reported.
"The criminal court specializing in terrorism cases sentenced on Sunday four Saudi nationals to death for belonging to al-Qaida and killing and beheading 14 soldiers of the 134th Brigade in Sayoun city of Hadramout province," the channel reported.
"The court ordered the Saudis to be executed in a public place and at the presence of the families of the victims," the channel reported.
The channel provided no further details.
Al-Qaida in Yemen, known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has been active in south the country since 2009.
The terrorist organization has taken advantage of the political and security chaos that has hit the Arab country since 2011.
The 2014 attack by al-Qaida on the soldiers happened in the same year the rebel Houthis stormed the capital Sanaa and forced the elected President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and his government into exile.
The civil war has erupted then, triggering a Saudi-led coalition forces to intervene to defeat the rebels and restore the government into power.
The war has killed over 10,000 people, mostly civilians and displaced three million.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Brazil coach Dunga will name his squad for October friendlies against Argentina and Japan next Wednesday (Sept. 17), the country's football confederation said in a statement.
The Selecao will meet Argentina in Beijing on October 11 and Japan in Singapore three days later.
Dunga was appointed coach of Brazil for a second time following the dismissal of Luiz Felipe Scolari in July.
In his first match back in charge the Selecao defeated Colombia 1-0 in Miami last Friday before repeating the scoreline against Ecuador in New Jersey on Tuesday.
Dunga, Brazil's 1994 World Cup-winning captain, also coached the Selecao from 2006 to 2010.
ABU DHABI, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) managing director, Christine Lagarde, said Monday that the six Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) member states must decrease public expenditure and implement a tax regime to compensate for the oil slump, reported the United Arab Emirates (UAE) daily Gulf news.
Speaking at the Arab Fiscal Forum in the UAE capital, the IMF managing director said the combined oil revenue losses of the GCC have risen to 340 billion U.S. dollars.
Therefore, the GCC states must increase revenues from other sources and simultaneously "restructure their tax system."
Lagarde was on her first visit to the UAE as IMF managing director and welcomed the GCC countries' plan to concurrently implement a Value-Added Tax (VAT) regime by 2018 as the tax "even at low single digit rates will increase the GCC's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up by two percent."
Former French minister of finance, Lagarde, 60, recently appointed by the IMF for a second term supported by IMF member states including China, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, also said oil-producing Gulf states must build up tax administration capability to enable them to tax incomes.
Most GCC regimes raise taxes for foreign institutions and corporations, for example, foreign licensed banks in the UAE must pay 20 percent of their profits to the state.
Lagarde has been at the IMF helm since 2011 after her predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was forced to step down following a sex scandal he was entangled in.
The IMF chief expressed confidence that the GCC are capable of adjusting their fiscal regimes to the new low oil status, which will "remain low for an extended period" as they did previously.
The IMF slashed the UAE's growth forecast twice, the last time being on January 23 down to 2.6 percent from 3.1 percent.
The Washington-based Global Monetary Fund with 188 member countries cited the ongoing slump of oil prices.
While oil contributes just short of 30 percent of the Gulf state's GDP, the "black gold" remains a major source of income for the UAE's federal and fiscal budgets.
In addition, the UAE's government started reducing public expenditure.
The IMF expects the UAE's fiscal deficit to widen by 7.5 percent.
Oil prices have fluctuated between 30 dollars a barrel, or 159 liters, since the start of 2016, down from over 110 dollars a barrel in mid-2014.
According to the IMF, the UAE needs oil prices to reach at least 73 to 80 dollars a barrel to breakeven fiscally.
You know what they say, “You are not truly famous till you have immortalized yourself through a biography.” While most of these biographies are released as a desperate measure or a last ditch effort to garner publicity for the celebrity’s dying fame, some are penned down at the peak of their stardom in an endeavor to make more pies while the pan is still hot. I am not sure as to what was Sergio Ramos motive when he had journalist Enrique Ortego pen down his biography as a book titled ‘Corazón, Carácter y Pasión’, but it has further improved Ramos’s celebrity status.
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