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Shelling in Yemen’s capital killed five supporters of a powerful opposition chieftain on Tuesday, his tribe said, as clashes intensified between embattled President Ali...

Security forces opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in Yemen’s second largest city Taez on Thursday, wounding dozens, witnesses and medics said. Central Security forces...

SANAA - Yemen's opposition called for mass protests Wednesday after deadly clashes with police, while talks seemed stalled between Gulf mediators and representatives of embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Members of the UN Security Council also failed to come up with a joint statement on Yemen after adding the Arabian Peninsula country's crisis to their agenda for the first time. Youth groups called for nationwide marches by millions of people in protest at the killing of

SANAA - Yemeni police killed one man and wounded several other people on Tuesday when they opened fire on anti-regime demonstrators ahead of a government delegation meeting with Gulf foreign ministers in Abu Dhabi. Police fired "indiscriminately" on protesters demanding the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the Wadi al-Qadi district of Taez, the second most-populated city of Yemen, south of Sanaa, according to witnesses. Several people suffered gunshot wounds, including a

SANAA - Yemeni women protested in Sanaa and other cities against President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday, a day after he called for an end to men and women joining together in anti-regime protests.
"Sit-in, sit-in, until the regime falls," chanted about 1,000 black-clad women who marched from the square at Sanaa University -- the epicentre of demonstrations in the capital -- to the prosecutor's office. They marched to lodge a complaint against Saleh, who has since January faced

SANAA - Yemenis on Thursday commemorated dozens of people killed in weeks of street protests demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh resign, as efforts continued to negotiate his exit from power within the next year. Weeks of protests in Sanaa and elsewhere have brought Saleh's 32-year-old rule to the brink of collapse but the United States and Saudi Arabia, an important financial backer of its poverty-stricken neighbour, are worried over who might succeed their ally.
A senior

SANAA - Tanks were deployed in the Yemeni capital on Monday as top generals pledged allegiance to the "revolution" and the country's main tribal leader demanded President Ali Abdullah Saleh's exit from power.
Tanks took up positions in key locations across Sanaa including at the presidential palace, the central bank and the ministry of defence, but it was unclear what their orders were or who was in command. In the first of a series of body blows to Saleh's authority, General Ali

SANAA - Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Sunday sacked his government in the face of massive protests demanding his resignation, the state news agency Saba reported. "The president has dismissed the government but asked the cabinet to remain in a caretaker position until a new one is formed," Saba said.
The announcement came as tens of thousands of people turned out in Sanaa earlier in the day for the funerals of many of the 52 people gunned down by Saleh

SANAA - Police killed a boy and wounded hundreds of people in pre-dawn clashes in the Yemeni capital on Saturday and a 12-year-old youth died during anti-government demonstrations in the southern city of Mukalla, witnesses said.
A man watching protests from his office window in Sanaa was also shot dead by a stray bullet, a security source said. Thousands of protesters have been demanding the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year rule and at least 30 people have lost

SANAA - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Thursday bowed to pressure after a month of violent protests, but his pledge to devolve power to parliament was swiftly rejected as too late by the opposition. In a major speech delivered in a gravelly voice to tens of thousands of people at a stadium in the capital Sanaa, the veteran leader of the strategic US ally promised to hold a referendum on a new constitution later this year. He also ordered his security forces to ensure the

SANAA - Yemen's opposition coalition vowed on Monday to escalate protests that have swept the country demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, after he rejected a plan that would have him step down in 2011.
Tens of thousands of protesters are camped out in major Yemeni cities, staying awake through the night to hear speeches and sing national songs, as their tone against Saleh hardens. Saleh, a US ally against al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing, rejected a plan

SANAA/ADEN - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday reiterated that he would remain in power until his term ends in 2013, rejecting an opposition plan for him to step aside this year. "The peaceful and smooth transition of power is not carried out through chaos but through the will of the people expressed through elections," an official source at the presidential office said in a statement. The opposition on Friday said Saleh was sticking to an earlier plan to step down in

SANAA - Yemeni soldiers killed four protesters and wounded seven others on Friday when they opened fire on an anti-regime rally in the northern province of Amran, officials and Shia rebels said. The shooting, which came a day after the opposition and clerics offered embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh a smooth exit from power, took place in the village of Semla, 170 kilometres from the capital Sanaa. "Two protesters were killed and nine others were wounded when soldiers opened fire

SANAA - Pressure on Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign intensified on Saturday when the leaders of two of Yemen's most important tribes abandoned the president and joined the anti-regime movement. The news came as an official denied reports that police killed four people on Friday in an assault on an anti-government protest in Aden, blaming a southern secessionist group for the attack.
Powerful tribal leaders, including those of the Hashid and Baqil, pledged to join protests against

SANAA - Thousands of Yemeni anti-regime demonstrators chanted defiantly on Wednesday after government loyalists shot two of them dead, while eight ruling party MPs resigned over the suppression of protests. "Enough! Enough! The criminal attacks during the night!," chanted the mostly young demonstrators encamped at Sanaa University in the capital, after gunmen attacked them during the night, killing two of them and wounding 23, according to witnesses and medics.
"I presented my

SANAA - Anti-government protesters clashed with police blocking them from marching to Yemen's presidential palace in Sanaa on Sunday, witnesses said. The clashes occurred while President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the main opposition group were preparing for talks that the government hoped would help avert an Egyptian-style revolt in the Arabian Peninsula state.
"The Yemeni people want the fall of the regime," protesters shouted during the demonstration attended by about 1,000

ADEN - Police fired tear gas and live ammunition on Thursday to break up an anti-government protest in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, leaving two people injured, witnesses said. The police, who deployed in large numbers earlier in the morning, were seen by an AFP correspondent dispersing the protesters as they began to march in the Crater district of the city.
The demonstration - part of a "day of rage" in Yemen - had been called by Common Forum, an opposition coalition,