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World Press Photo of the year awarded to Samuel Aranda The international jury of the 55th annual World Press Photo Contest announced Friday that it had selected a picture by Samuel Aranda as the World Press Photo of the Year 2011. Jurors said the photo of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen captured multiple facets of the “Arab Spring” uprisings across the Middle East last year. It was taken at a field hospital inside a mosque in Sanaa on October 15. The winning photo was selected from 101,254 images submitted by 5,247 photographers from 124 countries. (source)

World Press Photo of the year awarded to Samuel Aranda

The international jury of the 55th annual World Press Photo Contest announced Friday that it had selected a picture by Samuel Aranda as the World Press Photo of the Year 2011.

Jurors said the photo of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen captured multiple facets of the “Arab Spring” uprisings across the Middle East last year. It was taken at a field hospital inside a mosque in Sanaa on October 15.

The winning photo was selected from 101,254 images submitted by 5,247 photographers from 124 countries. (source)

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“God willing, I will leave for treatment in the United States and I will return to Sanaa as head of the General People’s Congress party. I ask for forgiveness from all my people, men and women, for any shortcomings during my 33-year-long rule.”

Yemen’s veteran President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has left the country to travel to the US for medical treatment, Yemeni officials say. In a televised “farewell speech” he asked for forgiveness for “any shortcomings” during his 33-year rule. His departure came a day after MPs approved a law giving him immunity from prosecution. (Source)

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Look out USA! A dictator's heading your way.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said he will go to the US and give way to a successor, hours after his forces killed nine people demanding he be tried for killings over nearly a year of protests aimed at his ouster.

“I will go to the United States. Not for treatment, because I’m fine, but to get away from attention, cameras, and allow the unity government to prepare properly for elections”

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“what is happening in Taiz today is a real war against civilians.”

Abdulrahim al-Samie, an anti-government activist told Al Jazeera after At least 11 people have been killed in heavy fighting in the Yemeni city of Taiz, a day after a UN envoy began a new mission to push President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign under a Gulf-backed peace plan. (source)

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Snipers shoot protesters in Yemen

Clashes between protesters and pro-regime forces in Yemen’s capital turned deadly today when government snipers started picking off protesters in the crowd.

Monday’s killings take to nearly 50 the number of people killed by government forces and snipers since Sunday night. It is the bloodiest assault in months on demonstrators calling for the president’s ouster.

Victims included a child and at least three soldiers who defected to join the protesters. They said three other protesters were wounded Monday by sniper fire near Sanaa University. (source)

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Yemen president appears on TV Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, his face burned and his hands covered with bandages, has appeared on television for the first time since he was wounded in a bomb attack on his palace in Sanaa. Saleh, who was hospitalised in Saudi Arabia after the June 3 attack, said he had undergone “more than eight successful operations” and called for dialogue in his recorded speech, broadcast on Yemeni television on Thursday. In his brief speech, he said those who have sought to drive him from power had an “incorrect understanding of democracy.” Read More

Yemen president appears on TV

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, his face burned and his hands covered with bandages, has appeared on television for the first time since he was wounded in a bomb attack on his palace in Sanaa.

Saleh, who was hospitalised in Saudi Arabia after the June 3 attack, said he had undergone “more than eight successful operations” and called for dialogue in his recorded speech, broadcast on Yemeni television on Thursday.

In his brief speech, he said those who have sought to drive him from power had an “incorrect understanding of democracy.”

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