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Ashton Carter Ashton Baldwin "Ash" Carter (born on September 24, 1954) is a physicist and United States Department of Defense official who was nominated by President Barack Obama on December 5, 2014 to replace Chuck Hagel as the United States Secretary of Defense.[1] He was deputy secretary of defense from October 2011 to December 2013, serving as the DOD’s chief operating officer overseeing more than $600 billion per year and 2.4 million civilian and military personnel, and managing global 24/7 operations. From April 2009 to October 2011, he was undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics with responsibility for procurement of all technology, systems, services, and supplies, bases and infrastructure, energy and environment, and more than $50 billion annually in R&D. Previously, Carter was a senior partner of Global Technology Partners focused on advising investment firms in technology and defense, and an advisor to Goldman Sachs on global affairs.
War may push Yemen to partition DUBAI: Yemen has endured thousands of airstrikes and the deaths of more than 10,000 people in a 19-month-old war that has also unleashed hunger on the desperately poor country – but its biggest challenge may be yet to come. The conflict has led to Yemen’s de facto partition, with rival armies and institutions in the north and south, and could mean the map of the Middle East will have to be redrawn. A three-day truce to allow in more humanitarian aid and prepare a political settlement collapsed last week, reflecting deadlocked efforts to end the stalemated war. But behind the combatants’ disagreements over how to share power, Yemen’s future as a unified state appears increasingly in doubt. Such a possibility appeared remote when a coalition of Arab states began launching airstrikes in March 2015 to restore to power President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi, driven from the capital, Sanaa, by the Iranian-allied Houthi movement in 2014. It seems less fanciful now.
Presse Yemen Thani Dubai Mining and Anglo Gold Ashanti form Joint VentureCaperi Johannesburg, South Africa: Anglo Gold Ashanti Limited and Thani Dubai Mining Limited have announced the formation of a strategic alliance to explore, develop and operate mines across the Middle East and parts of North Africa. Countries of interest include Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Eritrea, Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan. Each company will have a 50% interest in the alliance which will explore for gold, precious and base metals. The alliance is intending to bring together a combination of regional business knowledge and relationships with global exploration and mining expertise.