Opposition supporters, inspired by recent events in Tunisia and Egypt, stage anti-government protests in Sanaa Tens of thousands of people in Yemen have taken to the streets in the country’s capital, calling for an end to the government of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president. Inspired by recent events in Tunisia and Egypt, opposition members and youth activists rallied at four different locations in
Protests in the restive south of the country, above, were more aggressive than in the capital.Credit...Reuters BEIRUT, Lebanon — Yemen, one of the Middle East’s most impoverished countries and a haven for Al Qaeda militants, became the latest Arab state to witness mass protests on Thursday, as thousands of Yemenis took to the streets in the capital and other regions to demand a change in governmen
• Reformist Mohamed ElBaradei returns to Egypt • Calls on president Hosni Mubarak to retire • Third day of protests • Death toll from protests has risen to six • International criticism of police crackdown • Read a summary of today's key events A child walks past burning tyres as Egyptian demonstrators battle police during a demonstration in Suez. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images 8.03am
The US Army has located a small amount of a deadly nerve weapon that went missing at a Utah military research base, officials have said. Some 1,200 to 1,400 people were locked in the 1,200 sq-mile Dugway Proving Ground for several hours after a vial containing a quarter of a teaspoon of VX nerve agent was reported missing.
Demonstrations were led by opposition members and youth activists Tens of thousands of Yemenis have demonstrated in the capital Sanaa, calling on Ali Abdullah Saleh, president for 30 years, to step down. This comes after mass protests in Egypt and a popular uprising in Tunisia that ousted its long-time leader. Yemeni opposition members and youth activists gathered in four parts of the city, includ
Running battles between police and anti-government protesters continued in Egypt for a second day today, despite an official ban by the government on protests and gatherings, and a huge deployment of police in Cairo. Riot police and plainclothes officers armed with staves and bars broke up a demonstration outside one of the capital's biggest tourist hotels, the Ramses Hilton, on the banks of the r
The end of the Tunisian story hasn’t yet been written. We don’t yet know whether the so-called Jasmine Revolution will produce fundamental change or a return to a cosmetically-modified status quo ante, democracy or a newly configured authoritarianism. But most of the policy community has long since moved on to ask whether the Tunisian protests will spread to other Arab countries — Egypt, of course
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