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SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen began a new era without Ali Abdullah Saleh on Wednesday after an uncontested election that gave his deputy a mandate to launch reforms in a country facing an economy in meltdown, a tenacious al Qaeda wing and rebellions in the north and south.

2012-02-22T13:22:40ZReuters US Online Report World News Joseph Logan and Tom Finn