Yemen president starts Europe tour
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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh left for visits to Germany and Italy, two of the impoverished country's key development donors, the official SABA news agency reported.
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France's president offered Saudi Arabia help in exploring a possible civilian nuclear energy program as the French leader began a visit to the oil-rich kingdom on Sunday.
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Yemen has received information that  foreign terrorists are planning to attack its sea ports, a  security source said on Wednesday.
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Abdelrahman al-MarwaniÂs goal to bring peace to Yemen shows the difficulty of changing the countryÂs mind-set, one person at a time.
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Yemenis began voting on Wednesday in   elections that long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh is   expected to win, despite facing a genuine challenge from a   former minister.
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HANOI President Roh Moo-hyun arrived here yesterday for the fifth Asia Europe Meeting of heads of state and a bilateral visit to Vietnam.
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President Roh Moo-Hyun opens a three-nation European tour in London when he embarks on the first ever state visit to Britain by a South Korean leader.
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A stampede broke out Tuesday in a stadium packed with thousands of people for an election campaign rally for Yemen's president, killing at least 51 people and injuring more than 200, including youths bused in for the event.
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Yemen's long running President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, is re-elected to another seven-year term, gaining 77% of the vote, state-run TV reports.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy will pay a brief visit to Algeria and Tunisia on Tuesday, his first trip outside Europe since taking office two months ago.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak visited Saudi Arabia on a brief trip which Egyptian officials said was aimed at easing strained ties between Riyadh and Libya over an alleged plot by Tripoli to kill the kingdom's de facto leader.
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Iran's president heads to Saudi Arabia on Saturday for discussions with King Abdullah, an indication that weeks of talks between their envoys on simmering conflicts in Iraq and Lebanon have made some headway.
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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said  on Tuesday he expected four French tourists held hostage by  tribesmen to be freed within a few days.
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Today and tomorrow, January 19, President Vaira Vike-Freiberga is paying an official visit to the Netherlands, including the Hague and Amsterdam.
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The EU foreign policy chief begins a Mid-East tour holding positive meetings with political rivals in Lebanon.
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Yemen stepped up security around government buildings and foreign interests on Tuesday a day after a suspected al Qaeda suicide bomber killed seven Spanish tourists and two Yemenis at a tourist site.
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France's president is to sign a nuclear co-operation deal with the United Arab Emirates during a tour of the region.