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Militants blow up Yemen gas pipeline again
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May 14, 2012 09:15 PM
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SANAA: Suspected Islamist militants blew up a gas pipeline in eastern Yemen on Monday for the third time in recent months and a bomb in Sanaa killed one person, as the government ratcheted up its campaign against al Qaeda linked insurgents in the south. The latest attack will likely delay plans...
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FBI chief in Yemen, drone kills AQAP leader
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April 24, 2012 09:08 PM
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SANAA: FBI director Robert Mueller visited Yemen on Tuesday, pledging to help quell an Islamist insurgency there, as security and government sources said a U.S. drone had killed a prominent al Qaeda leader linked to an attack on a French oil tanker. In a meeting with President Abd-Rabbu Mansour...
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In revolt, Yemeni "untouchables" hope for path out of misery
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March 07, 2012 04:10 PM
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SANAA: The weakest of the weak in Yemen are using the language and techniques of the "Arab Spring" anti-government protests to combat prejudices that have left them on the margins of society for centuries. Scattered applause broke out as a dark-skinned man in a grubby purple shirt took...
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Reality bites as Yemen begins life after Saleh
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February 22, 2012 10:30 PM
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SANAA: Yemen began a new era without Ali Abdullah Saleh on Wednesday after an uncontested election that gave his deputy a mandate to launch reforms in a country facing an economy in meltdown, a tenacious al Qaeda wing and rebellions in the north and south. Tuesday's election, which was praised...
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U.S. diplomat: Iran more active in Yemen
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February 21, 2012 01:24 AM
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SANAA: Iran is becoming more active in Yemen and could pose a deeper threat to its stability and security, the U.S. envoy to Yemen said Monday, highlighting what would be yet another layer of uncertainty in a near-failed state. U.S. Ambassador Gerald Feierstein’s warning is likely to...
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Yemen set for one-candidate presidential poll
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February 20, 2012 01:07 AM
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SANAA: After a year of protests, diplomatic wrangling and an assassination attempt, Yemenis will draw a line under Ali Abdullah Saleh’s three-decade rule Tuesday by voting in an uncontested election to install his deputy as president. In the capital Sanaa, new posters of the sole candidate,...
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Yemen's "parallel revolution" inspires street-level protests
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January 27, 2012 09:29 PM
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SANAA: The protest that paralyzed Yemen's main airport erupted when an air force officer hurled a boot at his commander, a relative of the outgoing president and a symbol of the corruption that divides even his supporters. "This is all I have left for the month," says Faris Al-Jabar,...
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Salafist, Houthi sectarian rift threatens to engulf fragile state of Yemen
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December 21, 2011 01:34 AM
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SAADA,Yemen: Their faces bruised and limbs scarred by bullet wounds, scores of young men writhed in agony on shabby mattresses at a Yemeni hospital in Saada, victims of a conflict largely hidden from the world. Shiite Muslim rebels in Yemen’s northern mountains near Saudi Arabia had fought...
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