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HONOLULU — The Obama administration has been enmeshed in a vigorous internal debate over whether to allow the embattled president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to travel to New York City for medical treatment, with at least one administration official saying Monday that the decision to admit him had been made.

HONOLULU — The Obama administration has been enmeshed in a vigorous internal debate over whether to allow the embattled president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to travel to New York City for medical treatment, with at least one administration official saying Monday that the decision to admit him had been made. The administration, hunting for a way to ensure progress toward elections in Yemen, has been grappling with fears that the United States would be criticized for appearing to provide a safe haven for a reviled Arab leader responsible for the deaths of hundreds of demonstrators. If he is allowed...

Yemen will hold a snap presidential election on 21 February 2012, according to a decree signed by the country's Vice-President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. The move is part of a transition deal agreed this week which sees President Ali Abdullah Saleh hand power to Mr Hadi in return for immunity from prosecution. Mr Saleh signed the accord on Wednesday after months of delays, despite mounting opposition to his rule. He has ruled the country for 33 years. A crackdown on anti-government protests, as well as clashes with tribes opposed to the government, has left hundreds dead since February. Under the deal,...

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday he would leave power in the coming days after the country has been largely paralyzed by nearly nine months of mass protests against his 33-year rule. "I reject power and I will continue to reject it, and I will be leaving power in the coming days," he said in a speech on state television.

(Banner only so far) Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh suffers burns on 40% of his body and has collapsed lung, U.S. officials say.

While the world’s attention is focused on the combat transpiring in Libya and the events in Egypt and Bahrain, Yemen has also descended into crisis. The country is deeply split over its support for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and this profound divide has also extended to the most powerful institutions in the country — the military and the tribes — with some factions calling for Saleh to relinquish power and others supporting him. The tense standoff in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa has served to divert attention (and security forces) from other parts of the country. On March 28,...

Yemeni President’s Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year-old iron-fisted rule appeared to be falling apart on Monday as top army generals defected and prominent diplomats resigned. Yemen's defense minister tried to save Saleh’s regime from collapse by pledging to prevent any “coup against democracy.” "The armed forces will stay faithful to the oath they gave before God, the nation and political leadership under the brother president Ali Abdullah Saleh...," said the statement, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters. Tanks were deployed outside the presidential palace on Monday morning, as a top general announced his allegiance to the protest movement seeking...

Yemen's president said he is ready to talk to al-Qaida members who renounce violence, suggesting he could show them the same kind of leniency he has granted militants in the past despite U.S. pressure to crack down on the terror group. Yemen is moving cautiously in the fight against al-Qaida, worried over a potential backlash in a country where anger at the U.S. and extremism are widespread. Thousands of Yemenis are battle-hardened veterans of past "holy wars" in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya and Iraq, and though most are not engaged in violence now they preserve a die-hard al-Qaida ideology. "Any movement...

SAN`A, Yemen (AP) - A Yemeni politician and religious figure - designated a suspected terrorist by the United States - declared his innocence Saturday and called on Washington to substantiate its allegations. On Tuesday, Sheik Abdulmajid al-Zindani, an Afghan war veteran and the spiritual leader of the Islamic-oriented Islah Party, was added to a U.S. Treasury Department list of those suspected of supporting terrorist activities. The allegation claimed al-Zindani, who is in his 60s, had "a long history of working with Osama bin Laden, notably serving as one of his spiritual leaders." The Treasury Department said al-Zindani had actively recruited...

<p>North Korea recently shipped missiles and fuel components to Yemen in a sign the Pyongyang government is continuing to act as the world's main missile supplier, The Washington Times has learned.</p> <p>The missile shipment was sent from the port of Nampo two weeks ago aboard a freighter bound for Yemen and had been under surveillance for several weeks, according to U.S. intelligence officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.</p>

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's president urged al-Qaida members Tuesday to ``repent'' and renounce violence following the weekend attack in which a U.S. Hellfire missile fired from a CIA plane killed the terrorist movement's top operative in the country. ``We call on everyone from among our countrymen who have been entangled in membership of the al-Qaida organization to repent ... and renounce all means of violence,'' President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in a statement read by a Cabinet minister on national television. Saleh said that those who ``return to the path of righteousness'' would be allowed to ``return to society...