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... Council, the United States is expected to veto it. We'll have reports on the broadcast and online this week on the U.N. summit. YEMEN | At least 50 people have been reported killed since Sunday night as government forces pushed back on protesters in Sanaa demanding the ouster of ...
Yemeni anti-government protesters demonstrate against President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Photo by Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images. Officials said 57 of 62 inmates held at a prison in Hadarmout province in southern Yemen escaped after gunmen created a diversion, allowing the inmates to escape through an underground tunnel. At least ...
... becoming civil war in some of these countries. JEFFREY BROWN: In these three countries that we're focusing on today. So, if you look at Yemen, for example, how significant is it that the opponents were able to reach the palace with shelling and wound Saleh today? ROBIN WRIGHT: It ...
... JIM LEHRER: Governments in three Middle Eastern nations try to put down popular uprisings. Jeffrey Brown has our update. JEFFREY BROWN: It was a major escalation of the fighting in Sana'a. Rockets blasted the presidential compound in the Yemeni capital, wounding President Ali Abdullah Saleh and killing at ...
... average plunged 279 points to close at 12,290. The Nasdaq fell 66 points to close at 2,769. Intense fighting spread across more of Yemen's capital, Sana'a, today. At least 41 people were killed. Tribal militias exchanged gun and artillery fire with troops loyal to President Ali ...
... And how does he do it? BERNARD HAYKEL, Princeton University: I mean, he has always ruled in this chaotic way, dividing up different forces in Yemen, playing off outside powers against each other, and also threatening collapse of Yemen, and promising that he's the only person who can keep ...
... GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight, a sometime U.S. ally falls deeper into chaos. Margaret Warner has the Yemen story. MARGARET WARNER: Heavy fighting resumed today in Yemen's capital, Sana'a, after a cease-fire broke down between President Ali Abdullah Saleh government troops and tribal militia. It was ...
... the war would send the wrong message to insurgents and risk undoing the gains brought by the president’s 2009 troop surge. Heavy Fighting in Yemen as Army, Major Tribe Clash in Capital More fighting was seen Tuesday in Sanaa as army troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh clashed ...
... KWAME HOLMAN: Government forces in Yemen went on the attack today trying to recapture a town seized by Islamic militants. Warplanes attacked Zinjibar in the south. At least 30 militants, civilians and soldiers have been killed there since Friday. Meanwhile, amateur video from another city, Taiz, showed masked men ...
Group of 8 leaders wrapped up their two-day summit in Deauville, France, on Friday by comparing the "Arab spring" to the fall of the Berlin Wall and promising up to $40 billion in aid to Tunisia and Egypt for their fight for democracy. Jeffrey Brown reports on the summit's conclusion and ongoing unrest around the...
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