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The United Nations is warning that the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe remains extremely fragile. There's a bit of diplomatic understatement if I've ever heard one. Trying to determine who is the world's most destructive national leader might seem lik
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By Tom Finn SANAA (Reuters) - After a year of protests, diplomatic wrangling and an assassination attempt, Yemenis will draw a line under Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade rule on Tuesday by voting in an uncontested election to install his deputy as pres
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Election staffers prepare for the presidential elections in Sanaa February 19, 2012. Yemenis are due to go to the polls on February 21 to vote for a new president after President Ali Abdullah Saleh transferred his powers and bowed to a year of mass... View Photo »
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I will go to the United States. Not for treatment, because I'm fine, but to get away from attention, cameras, and allow the unity government to prepare properly for elections.
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Yemen's Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who is the country's acting leader, looks on during the inauguration ceremony for his presidential election campaign, in Sanaa February 7, 2012. SANAA (Reuters) - After a year of protests, diplomatic wrangli
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Yemen's sole presidential candidate who will be voted in this week is committed to "destroying" Al-Qaeda, US Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan said on Sunday in Sanaa. Yemen's sole presidential candidate Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi (pictured), who w
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SANAA, Yemen - President Barack Obama threw his support behind Yemen's Vice President just days before an election expected to enshrine him as the new leader of a country the U.S.
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Policemen in charge of securing the upcoming presidential elections, carry ballot boxes as they deliver them to voting centers in Sanaa February 19, 2012. Yemenis are due to go to the polls on February 21 to vote for a new president after President Ali... View Photo »
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It's necessary to remove sit-in camps and stop staging demonstrations and attacks on the state military camps in order to make the GCC initiative succeed ... Yemen was at a crossroad and was about to slide into a civil war, but President Ali Abdullah Saleh's signature (of the GCC deal) saved the country...
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AHMED AL-HAJ, Associated Press | SANAA, Yemen President Barack Obama threw his support behind Yemen's Vice President just days before an election expected to enshrine him as the new leader of a country the U.S. sees as crucial to the fight against al-Qa
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SANAA, Yemen - President Barack Obama has voiced his support for Yemen's vice president days before an election expected to make Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi the country's new leader.
About Ali Abdullah Saleh
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Field Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh (Arabic: علي عبد الله صالح), born March 21, 1942, is the current President of Yemen. He was President of the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) from 1978 to 1990 and became president of the newly united Republic of Yemen in 1990. Full Article
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