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Yemen police open fire to stop riot reaching US embassy

Sana’a: Yemeni security forces fired warning shots and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters trying to reach the US embassy in Sanaa on Friday, an AFP correspondent reported. The protesters gathered about 500 metres (yards) away from the embassy compound calling for the expulsion of the US envoy in…

Yemen President Saleh killed: opposition TV says

SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed on Friday after an attack on the presidential palace, Suhail, a TV station run by the country’s opposition, reported. The presidential palace was hit by shells earlier on Friday during fighting between Saleh’s forces and a powerful tribal federation. (Reporting…