The U.N. Security Council has authorized continued reporting on attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who ...

Under Yemen’s Islamic legal framework, Qisas permits a murder victim’s family to demand punishment equal to the crime — in ...

Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse, gets a temporary stay from execution by Yemeni authorities. She was convicted of murder. Her only hope is diya or blood money, under Sharia law. The victim's family ...

Although the postponement of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya’s execution has brought some relief to her family, numerous ...

Nimisha Priya's execution in Yemen has been postponed, but her fate remains uncertain as the victim's family refuses all offers of reconciliation or blood money, insisting on Qisas, or retributive ...

Five children in southwestern Yemen died after an explosive device detonated in a residential area where they were playing ...

The brother Talal Abo Mahdi, the Yemeni national who was murdered by Nimisha Priya, has rejected any form of mediation for compensation, demanding justice and death penalty.

Kerala nurse went to Gulf nation in 2008; went through many upheavals to since land in jail for murder; Grand Mufti’, Islamic law become key to saving her now ...

Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse convicted of murdering a Yemeni national, faces execution on July 16, 2025, in Yemen. Learn ...

In Nimisha Priya’s case, the victim’s family in Yemen has refused to accept diyah offered by her family, leaving her fate mostly relying on the Qisas law.

NEW DELHI -- An Indian woman on death row in Yemen in a murder case has received temporary relief as her execution scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed amid efforts by the Indian government, ...

Relatives of an Indian nurse on death row in war-torn Yemen are racing against time to commute her death sentence, with her ...