Saudi diplomat killed in Yemeni capital
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. | The Saudi military official was travelling to the embassy on Wednesday morning when he was shot by unidentified assailants in another car in the 50th Street.
The officials said the fighters |
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. | The Saudi military official was travelling to the embassy on Wednesday morning when he was shot by unidentified assailants in another car in the 50th Street.
The officials said the fighters |
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. | A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire on Qassem Aqlan, who was on his way to work early on Thursday. The unidentified gunmen then fled the scene. Aqlan had been working for the US Embassy in the Yemeni capital for nearly 20 years, according to Yemeni security officials.
The attack comes as Yemen’s US-backed government is waging an offensive |
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. | The American embassy in Sanaa is the latest outpost of Washington’s to come under attack from Islamic extremists outraged by a blasphemous film. At least one person has died and several have been injured.
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. | A group of soldiers has attacked the Defence Ministry in Yemen according to eyewitnesses. The surprise attack was allegedly a response to the new president who has been restructuring the military.
Troops from Yemen’s elite force, the Republican Guard |
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. | The airport in Yemen’s capital was shut down on Saturday after forces loyal to a sacked general close to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh surrounded it and threatened to shoot down planes, a source said.
The airport has been |
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. | The election followed a deal brokered by Yemen’s neighbours to end the crisis.
Mr Saleh, who has been in power for 33 years, will formally hand over power in a ceremony on Monday. ‘National duty’ |
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. | Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Sunday in Yemen’s capital, protesting the deaths of protesters and demanding the resignation of the vice president for failing to bring the killers to justice.
Marching past the office of Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, the protesters denounced him as a “tool in the hands†of outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh |
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. | At least two Yemenis were killed in a third day of shelling in the hotbed protest city of Taiz on Saturday, residents said, before a ceasefire in clashes between troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and opposition fighters which have killed 17 people.
Saleh handed |
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. | A hotbed of opposition to the government and Yemen’s second-largest city, Taiz has been regularly shelled by the military responding to hit-and-run attacks by tribesmen, and the latest bout has been going on since Tuesday.
The fighting has raged |
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. | President Saleh said he regrets the bloodshed that resulted during the 10-month old popular uprising to overthrow him. He claimed the turmoil was the result of outside forces that have been pushing their own agenda in the Arab world.
Despite the optimism surrounding Wednesday’s ceremony, Yemen scholar Gregory Johnsen at Princeton University says that it’s far from clear that the signing will put |
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. | Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh suggested Saturday that within days he would step down, a promise he has made three times already this year, and analysts said it was yet another stalling tactic.
A government official said |
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. | A general was killed and 30 other troops loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh were taken hostage when tribesmen overnight attacked their base north of Sana’a, tribal sources and officials said on Monday as opposition rejected Saleh’s calls for negotiations and power transition.
General Abdullah al-Kulaibi, head of the 63rd brigade of the elite Republican Guard unit, was killed in the attack by tribesman opposed to Saleh’s rule in the strategic town |
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. | Doctors at hospitals in the capital said 26 people were killed. Hundreds of people were being treated for gunshot wounds and teargas inhalation.
The violence marks a sharp escalation |
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. | Medical sources say 72 people have died in three days of clashes between tribal fighters and government troops.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh has again said he will not step down and leave Yemen, despite mounting protests. |
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. | After days of delay, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh officially rejected a proposal that he step down this year and reiterated that he would remain in power until his term ends in 2013.
“The peaceful and smooth transition of power is not carried out through chaos but through the will of the people expressed through elections,” a statement from the presidential office |