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Saudi Arabia to Promote Technical Education Sector in Yemen

Students at a Yemeni school (AFP)
Students at a Yemeni school (AFP)
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Saudi Arabia to Promote Technical Education Sector in Yemen

Students at a Yemeni school (AFP)
Students at a Yemeni school (AFP)

Yemen’s Ministry of Technical Education has agreed with the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation in Riyadh on Sunday to activate a joint cooperation agreement and exchange program to promote partnerships between the two countries.

The agreement came during a meeting between Minister of Technical Education and Vocational Training, Dr. Abdul Razzaq Al-Ashwal, and Dr. Ahmed Bin Fahad, Governor of the Saudi Technical and Vocational Training Corporation.

Sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Saudi corporation has provided the Yemeni ministry with more than 120 training units and programs in all fields of technical education and vocational training, in addition to the exchange of regulations governing professional work.

The Yemeni minister reviewed the situation of technical education and vocational training and the consequences of the coup launched by Houthi militias, including the destruction of the infrastructure of the country’s education system.

“The ministry has put forward urgent programs and projects for the development of technical and vocational education and we hope to activate the partnership with the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation, which has become a home for technical education in the Arab world,” Al-Ashwal said.

“There are more than two million young Yemenis outside school, which makes them the target of evil forces and terrorist groups. Therefore, the ministry recognizes the importance of developing rehabilitation and training programs and projects aimed at young people,” he added.

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Biden Calls for Immediate Gaza Ceasefire in Call with Netanyahu

FILE PHOTO: US President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, July 25, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: US President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, July 25, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
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Biden Calls for Immediate Gaza Ceasefire in Call with Netanyahu

FILE PHOTO: US President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, July 25, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: US President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, July 25, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo

US President Joe Biden spoke on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said, as US officials race to reach a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal before Biden leaves office on Jan. 20.
Biden and Netanyahu discussed efforts underway to reach a deal to halt the fighting in the Palestinian enclave and free the remaining hostages there, the White House said in a statement after the two leaders spoke by telephone.
Biden "stressed the immediate need for a ceasefire in Gaza and return of the hostages with a surge in humanitarian aid enabled by a stoppage in the fighting under the deal," Reuters quoted it as saying.
Netanyahu updated Biden on progress in the talks and on the mandate he has given his top-level security delegation now in Doha in order to advance a hostage deal, Netanyahu said in a statement.
The two leaders also discussed "the fundamentally changed regional circumstances following the ceasefire deal in Lebanon, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, and the weakening of Iran’s power in the region," the White House said.
Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN's "State of the Union" program earlier on Sunday that the parties were "very, very close" to reaching a deal, but still had to get it across the finish line.
He said Biden was getting daily updates on the talks in Doha, where Israeli and Palestinian officials have said since Thursday that some progress has been made in the indirect talks between Israel and militant group Hamas.
"We are still determined to use every day we have in office to get this done," Sullivan said, "and we are not, by any stretch of imagination, setting this aside."
He said there was still a chance to reach an agreement before Biden leaves office, but that it was also possible "Hamas, in particular, remains intransigent."
During their call, Netanyahu also thanked Biden for his lifelong support of Israel and "the extraordinary support from the United States for Israel’s security and national defense," the White House said.