SANAA (AFP) - President Ali Abdullah Saleh blocked a Gulf plan to end deadly protests in Yemen by setting new conditions to quit on Sunday, as pro-regime gunmen encircled a meeting of Arab and Western diplomatic mediators.
Opposition members also said a protester was killed by pro-regime "thugs" blocking roads in Sanaa as hundreds of thousands of Saleh opponents took to the streets. [...]

SANAA (AFP) - Yemen's opposition on Saturday signed a Gulf-brokered accord for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to cede power, opposition sources said, with the embattled leader expected to follow suit on Sunday.
Saleh, who would quit within 30 days under the agreement, earlier slammed it as a "coup" that will aid Al-Qaeda but said he reluctantly accepted it for the sake of the nation.
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SANAA (AFP) - Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh told thousands of supporters on Friday that he wants an early presidential election to end a political crisis after months of deadly anti-regime protests.
"We call for an early presidential election in a democratic way, in order to avoid bloodshed," Saleh said, a day after officials from his ruling party and the opposition [...]

SANAA (AFP) - A Gulf-sponsored accord to end a bloody political dispute between President Ali Abdullah Saleh and Yemen's opposition will be signed on Sunday, opposition and ruling party officials said.
"The signing will take place on Sunday in Sanaa," Sultan al-Barakani, the assistant secretary general of the ruling General People's Congress, said of an accord sponsored by the six-m [...]

SANAA (AFP) - The Yemeni family of the youngest widow of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden demanded on Tuesday that she be repatriated along with her five children from Pakistan where she is being detained.
The brother of Amal Abdulfattah told AFP he had received assurances from the Yemeni ambassador in Islamabad that she is "in good health" despite sustaining a gunshot wound to the le [...]

SANAA (AFP) - The Yemeni regime and its opponents refused to budge on Tuesday as a Gulf mediator tried to keep up efforts to resolve the political crisis in the impoverished country.
"We have discussed with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary General (Abdullatif) al-Zayani the mechanism to implement a plan to end the crisis," ruling General People's Congress (GPC) spokesman Tar [...]

SANAA (AFP) - A Gulf mediator was to meet President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Sunday in a new bid to resolve Yemen's political crisis despite scepticism from the opposition and as violence raged across the country.
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary General Abdullatif al-Zayani flew in to Sanaa on Saturday "to achieve a settlement that can satisfy all parties," sources close to th [...]

SANAA (AFP) - Six Yemeni soldiers were killed in a tribal revenge attack on Saturday in the southeastern province of Al-Baida, a tribal leader and a security official said.
"Gunmen attacked an army checkpoint near Radaa, killing six soldiers," the tribal leader said, describing it as a "revenge killing."
The root of the enmity was not immediately clear but a security official confi [...]

SANAA (AFP) - Yemeni security forces and regime backers on Saturday opened fire on demonstrators in Taez, wounding more than 30 people, one of whom was declared clinically dead, medics and witnesses said.
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) chief, meanwhile, returned to Sanaa in a renewed bid to resolve Yemen's political crisis.
At least 16 people were shot and wounded as police, el [...]

SANAA (AFP) - Security forces massed in the Yemeni capital on Friday ahead of rival demonstrations for and against the regime of embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh, witnesses said.
Heavily armed Republican Guards and military vehicles were seen reinforcing troops already guarding the presidential palace, radio station and other key state buildings in Sanaa, an AFP correspondent [...]