Yemen's ailing President Ali Abdullah Saleh called for an end to months of street protests seeking his ousting and urged dialogue during the holy month of Ramadan to end the crisis.

A senior leader of Yemen’s al-Qaida branch has been killed in fighting in the nearly lawless south of the country, the Defence Ministry said.

YEMEN has stopped producing oil because of internal strife, a government official said, plunging the Arab world’s poorest nation into further economic decline.

Yemen has stopped producing oil because of internal strife, a government official said today, plunging a nation that is already the Arab world’s poorest into further economic decline.

TENS of thousands of people called for the Yemeni president’s ousting in protests across the country yesterday.

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

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.

Thirty-seven Somali migrants drowned off the coast of Yemen when smugglers forced them to jump from boats to elude authorities, it is reported.

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.

Tribesmen today kidnapped a family of five German tourists – reportedly including a former deputy foreign minister – to press the government for the release of jailed members of their tribe, Yemeni officials and the German government said.