Two gunmen shot dead on Sunday a US citizen who worked at a language school in Yemen's second city of Taez, a security official said.

The assailants rode a motorbike in their attack on the man, who w

Longtime Yemeni vice-president Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi took the oath of office as president on Saturday ahead of formal handover of power by veteran strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Hadi pledged to 'preser

Yemeni voters ended President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year rule in a historic ballot on day, pinning hopes on a new leader faced with the massive task of rebuilding an impoverished and war-ravaged cou

Ali Abdullah Saleh, who once compared his 33-year rule of Yemen to ‘dancing on the heads of snakes,’ formally steps down this week after Yemenis anoint a new president in an election many hope will gi

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is due to step down next month, arrived in the United States on Saturday for medical treatment, an embassy spokesman in Washington said.

"President Saleh arr

The United States on Sunday approved a visit from Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh for medical treatment but said it was with the understanding that he would stay only for a ‘limited time’.

Saleh,

Thousands of Yemenis demonstrated on Thursday in several cities voicing their rejection of a Gulf Arab deal to grant President Ali Abdullah Saleh immunity from prosecution, witnesses said.

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Yemini 'Arab Spring' activist Tawakkol Karman, who received the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, lamented that she could not stand as a candidate in her country's presidential elections in February.

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Yemini 'Arab Spring' activist Tawakkol Karman, who received the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, lamented that she could not stand as a candidate in her country's presidential elections in February.

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Yemini 'Arab Spring' activist Tawakkol Karman, who received the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, lamented that she could not stand as a candidate in her country's presidential elections in February.

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