Saleh Return Fails to End Yemen Clashes as Protesters Shun Talks
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Yemen to reject calls by President Ali Abdullah Saleh for negotiations with the opposition.
Opposition leaders called on supporters to mark today’s national holiday commemorating a 1962 uprising that ended the monarchy with demonstrations against Saleh, who has ruled the Arab world’s poorest country for more than three decades. Protesters today in Sana’a and Taiz called for a “new revolution.”