Thousands of Yemeni women protest, enraged by President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s remarks it was against Islam for women to join men in the demonstrations.
Opponents of Yemen’s President Saleh stepped up a campaign to force him out on Friday, but Saleh was defiant, urging opposition to join peace talks.
Yemen’s president urged the opposition to join talks to try to end weeks of turmoil and violence in which three more people were killed on Tuesday.
Police and armed men in civilian clothes opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in Yemeni cities on Monday, leaving 15 dead and dozens wounded.
Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday he was prepared to step down if allowed a dignified departure.
Tens of thousands of Yemenis squared off in peaceful protests for and against the government on Thursday during an opposition-led "Day of Rage".
More than 20 000 Yemenis filled the streets of Sana’a on Thursday for a Day of Rage rally, demanding a change in government.
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/ 17 September 2009
More than 80 refugees died this week in an army air raid on a camp in north Yemen, a camp source said on Thursday.
At least eight Yemeni soldiers were killed in a volcanic eruption on an island off the country’s Red Sea coast, the government said on Monday. A Defence Ministry official said the western part of the island had "collapsed" following the eruption. Yemen’s oil minister said several earthquakes felt on Sunday had triggered the eruption.