Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Yemen Opposition Agrees to One-Month Transition

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4.Yemen Opposition Agrees to Transition

Has another Middle Eastern regime bitten the dust? Yemen's opposition has agreed to a plan that will see President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down in a month in exchange for immunity for himself and his family. The plan was negotiated by Western allies and Gulf States. Not everyone, however, is pleased: Pro-democracy demonstrators who are not part of the talks have called for new protests. Two demonstrators were killed by government forces just hours before the opposition's announcement.

Read it at Al Jazeera

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