A Yemeni governor has said security forces have killed a suspected al-Qaida figure in a raid in a remote mountainous province.

Two suspected al-Qaida terrorists were killed in clashes outside the Yemeni capital San’a today as the US and British embassies remained closed for a second day by terror threats.

THE US and Britain closed their embassies in Yemen yesterday in the face of al-Qaida threats, after both countries announced an increase in aid to the government to fight the terror group linked to the failed attempt to bomb a US airliner on Christmas.

A 12-YEAR-OLD Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labour to give birth, a local human rights organisation said.

A French official plane carrying a young girl thought to be the only survivor of the Yemeni air crash today arrived in Paris from Comoros.

A Yemenia Air plane going from the Arabian Peninsula country of Yemen to the island nation of Comoros crashed in the Indian Ocean early today, a Yemen airport official said.

NINE missing foreigners in Yemen, including three children, have been murdered, said a Yemeni official yesterday, apparently executed by their kidnappers in the impoverished nation in the Arabian peninsula where al-Qaida has a strong presence.

ABOUT 100 migrants from Somalia are missing and feared drowned in the treacherous waters off the coast of Yemen after smugglers forced them overboard, Yemeni officials and the UN refugee agency said yesterday.

A MOTORCYCLE bomb exploded amid a crowd of worshippers leaving a mosque after Friday prayers in northern Yemen, killing at least 18 people and wounding about 45, government officials said.

Palestinian factions meeting in Yemen have ended five days of reconciliation talks without agreeing on who will control the Gaza Strip.

Police in Yemen have uncovered a terrorist cell of four extremists who were recruiting young people to carry out suicide attacks in Iraq and elsewhere, a security official said.

A Yemeni guard opened fire today at the employees of an international oil company in Yemen, killing an Indian national and seriously wounding an American, two Britons, a Tunisian and a Yemeni man, security and local officials said.

A Yemeni guard opened fire today at the employees of an international oil company in Yemen, killing an Indian national and seriously wounding an American, two Britons, a Tunisian and a Yemeni man, security and local officials said.

Four French tourists kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen have been freed, the Yemeni official news agency reported today.

Eight people were rescued early today from a village hit by a landslide, a Yemeni security official said, but the death toll has now reached 39.

A landslide has crushed about 30 homes at the foot of a north Yemeni mountain, killing at least 20 villagers, Interior Ministry and medical officials said today.

A mountain landslide swept away at least 30 houses in a tiny Yemeni village, killing at least eight people, the Interior Ministry said.

Kidnappers today freed two Austrian hostages three days after seizing them in northern Yemen, the country’s official news agency said.

Eight suspected al-Qaida members admitted planning attacks on the British embassy in Yemen when they went on trial today,

A suspected member of al-Qaida has turned himself in to the Yemeni authorities and confessed to planning terror attacks against Western embassies in the capital, security officials said.

THE appeals trial of six men convicted in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole opened in the Yemeni capital San’a yesterday with prosecutors demanding the execution of two defendants who escaped the death penalty.

The appeals trial of six men convicted in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole opened in the Yemeni capital San’a today with prosecutors demanding the execution of two defendants who escaped the death penalty.

The Yemeni army has launched a major offensive to try to end a rebellion in the northern mountains and 50 soldiers and rebels have been killed in two days.

A Yemeni security court today charged six Yemenis in the planning of the bombing of a US destroyer in October 2000 and said they belonged to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network, opening the first trial in the Cole case.

Yemeni security forces have arrested a man they say was involved in the 2000 bombing of the US destroyer Cole that killed 17 American sailors.

Yemeni security forces uncovered evidence that attacks were planned against foreign targets when they arrested five people suspected of links to the al-Qaida terror network, an official said today.

Yemen has warned Western ambassadors of new information indicating potential terror attacks targeting foreign interests in the country.

A Yemeni court today sentenced a suspected al-Qaida militant to death for killing three US missionaries, his lawyer said.

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

An American oil worker was killed today and another Westerner was wounded by a gunman in Yemen, tribesmen and oil company staff said.

Two Yemenis suspected of belonging to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network and arrested in Germany as part of a joint US-German terrorism investigation are to appear before a judge today, prosecutors in Frankfurt said.

Two Muslim militants accused of killed three American Christian missionaries and a Yemeni politician had also planned attacks on journalists and other foreigners, security officials said today.

Yemeni investigators today said they strongly suspect a man who gunned down four American missionaries had links to the al-Qaida terror network.

Three American doctors were shot dead in Yemen today, security officials said.

OPENING up a visible new front in the war on terror, US forces launched a pinpoint missile strike in Yemen, killing a top al-Qaida operative in his car in the first such overt attack outside of Afghanistan, a US official said.

Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, al-Qaida’s top man in Yemen who was killed in a US air strike, had eluded capture for months by hiding in the desert and remote villages.

Six al-Qaida suspects, including Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenant in Yemen, were killed when US forces carried out their first overt strike on the terror group in the Middle East by firing a Hellfire missile on the suspects’ car.

One of Osama bin Laden’s top operatives and five other suspected members of al-Qaida were killed today when their car blew up in Yemen.

Six suspected Muslim militants were killed in Yemen today when their car blew up.

A helicopter belonging to a US oil company crash-landed at San’a airport after it came under fire shortly after takeoff today, officials said.

A university student threw a hand-grenade at the UN Embassy in the Yemeni capital San’a tonight, hitting a tree but injuring no one.

A suspected Yemeni al-Qaida member, believed to be related to one of the September 11 hijackers, blew himself up after being cornered by security forces in a San’a suburb.