Neighbours urge Yemen leader to step down

A regional bloc of oil-rich Arab nations along the Gulf, including powerful Saudi Arabia, called on Yemen’s president to step down as part of a deal with the protest movement demanding for his ousting after 32 years.

Keeping up the pressure, tens of thousands of protesters complaining of poverty and corruption marched in the capital, Sanaa, yesterday, a day after renewed clashes between demonstrators and security forces there.