Vice President Lt. Gen. Ali Mohsen Saleh has condoled the relatives of three children killed by Saleh-Houthi shelling in Taiz city on Friday.

Chairing a meeting of the local authority in Sayoon city of the eastern province of Hadhramout on Saturday, Yemen's Prime Minister said: "We need to rebuild the state, which the Saleh-Houthi rebels destroyed everything in it from the years 1962 and 1990. Achieve the state that Yemenis unanimously agreed in the National Dialogue Conference [2013-214] to make it a federal state."

The Ministry of Human Rights has made a new appeal to the international community to "act promptly to protect the civilians by pressuring on the [Saleh-Houthi] rebel militias to stop their systematic crimes."

Four children were killed and eight others were injured as rockets fired by Saleh-Houthi militias landed on their neighborhoods inHawdh al-Asharaf district in downtown Taiz on Friday evening.

Yemen's former permanent ambassador to the EU Dr. Ebrahim al-Adoofi said on Friday that "those calling for setting up an international enquiry commission into human rights violations in Yemen don't want Yemen to breathe a sigh of relief, but want the war to continue."

Yemen has condemned in the strongest terms the terror bombing of an underground London train that caused several commuters to be injured on Friday morning.

Vice President Lt. Gen. Ali Mohsen Saleh has met a number of persons incapacitated by torture earlier in the prisons of the Saleh-Houthi rebel militias.

Deputy Minister of Health Ali al-Waleedi and the representative of the UNICEF, MeritxellRelaño, discussed in a meeting in Aden on Friday, among a number of things, setting up stores of drugs and vaccination stocks in Aden before the end of this year.

Prime Minister Ahmed bin-Daghr has called for collaboration between the member provinces of Hadhramout federal region; Hadhramout, Mahrah, Shabwa and Socotra.

Human Rights Minister Mohammed Askarhas briefed the Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenderson the miserable humanitarian situation that Yemen is going through as a result of the Saleh-Houthi militias' coup d'état.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdul-Malik al-Makhlafi discussed today with Ambassador of the People's Republic of China TianChi the Sino-Yemeni relations.

Vice President Lt. Gen. Ali Mohsen has emphasized the significance of the role that tribes can play in toppling the coup d'état, restoring the state and building the much-aspired-for federal stable Yemen.

Vice President Lt. Gen. Ali Mohsen Saleh has discussed a range of national issues and concerns in a phone call with Prime Minister Ahmed bin-Daghr.

Mohammed Aljamal and Ali al-Bojeir were sworn in today before President Hadi as newly appointed members of the Shura Council.

Yemen's Ambassador to the US, Ahmed Awadh bin Mubarak, has discussed with congressman Harold Rogers, Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Appropriationsthe US-Yemeni relations and the continuity and increase of US aid to Yemen.

President Abdu R. Mansour Hadihas sent a cable of condolences to King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia over the death of Saudi captain MuhannaAlbeez in an aircraft crash in Yemen's southern province of Abyan on Wednesday.

The command of the Arab Coalition backing the Yemeni government has announced that a Saudi aircraft crashed due to a technical fault and its pilot was killed.

President Abdu R. Mansour Hadi received the credentials of four new foreign diplomats today; the ambassadors of Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Srinlanka.

India's Foreign Minister Ms. SushmaSwaraj has phone called her Yemeni counterpart Abdul-Malik al-Mekhlafi and thanked the Yemeni government for assisting in securing the release of Indian priest Thomas Uzhunnalil.

Yemen Journalists Syndicate (YJS) said it recorded 130 cases of press freedom violations in the country during the first half of 2017.