YEMEN President Ali Abdullah Saleh, wounded in an attack on his presidential palace, yesterday flew to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, potentially offering a face-saving end to his three-decade rule.

There is an unconfirmed report the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has left Cairo as tens of thousands of angry protestors once again take to the streets demanding he resign.

IRAQ’S deputy president Rowsch Shways said talks on a new government between the main Shi’ite alliance and Kurds would continue after parliament meets for the first time on Wednesday.

THE United States said it has massed enough troops in the Gulf to attack Iraq, and Turkey appeared to come round yesterday to letting its territory be used to launch part of the expected assault.