A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of Yemeni Shiites on their way to a religious ceremony today killing 17.

A Yemeni security official says three German women hostages have been found dead, their bodies mutilated.

Six Yemeni army and police troops were killed and 20 others injured in clashes in the past 24 hours with followers of a Yemeni Shiite rebel leader in the Saada province, a police statement said today.