Yemen: President offers elections as pressure mounts
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Yemen's president offered to step down by the end of the year on Wednesday in a bid to appease mounting demands for his resignation, but opposition groups showed no sign of easing up on eforts to force him out.
Weeks of protests against the 32-year rule President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the impoverished Arabian state has raised alarm in Western capitals at the prospect of a country where al Qaeda has entrenched itself falling apart. (Reuters)
