1.   Yemeni tribesman freed two Belgian tourists Thursday, a day after they were seized, a security official said.

2.   Yemeni tribesmen on Thursday freed two hostages, one a Chinese and the other a German, security officials said.

3.   Yemeni officials said earlier that no ransom was paid, and that tribesmen freed them after the government efforts.

4.   Yemeni tribesmen have freed an American oil engineer kidnapped earlier this month, the government said Thursday.

5.   Seventeen French tourists freed by tribesmen on Monday arrived in the Yemeni capital Sanaa saying they had been treated well during their four-day abduction.