Forces loyal to Yemeni President Abdullah Saleh shelled the country's second largest city Taez early on Friday, killing nine people, among them two women and a child, a medic and witnesses said.

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At least five people died in fierce clashes in Yemen's capital between President Ali Abdullah Saleh's troops and rival forces on Saturday, a day after the UN urged the embattled leader to hand over po

Street battles raged on Thursday between rival troops as well as between warring tribesmen, as violence which has already killed dozens spread across Yemen's capital, raising the spectre of civil war.