A court convicted 15 Yemeni militants today on terror charges including the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker and plotting to kill the US ambassador.

US investigators are helping probe a shooting attack in Yemen that killed an American, a Canadian and a Yemeni, and wounded another Canadian.

A YEMENI shot dead an American and a Canadian working at a US oil firm in the Arab state yesterday and then killed himself, a Yemeni official said.