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.

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.

Explosions and gunfire have been heard around the US Embassy in the Yemeni capital San'a, officials said today.

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.

YEMEN’S Specialist State Security Court yesterday began the trial of four former Iraqi intelligence officers accused of planning to blow up the British and US embassies in the Yemeni capital when the war in Iraq got underway in March 2003.

French investigators were arriving in Yemen today after a supertanker was gutted by an explosion and fire in a possible terrorist attack.

AN explosion set a French oil supertanker ablaze off the coast of Yemen yesterday, triggering conflicting explanations of an internal blast and a bomb attack from a small boat.

Authorities have seized two boats containing 116 Sri Lankan men after they had illegally entered Yemeni waters.