Sami Aboudi

ADEN (Reuters) - Militants linked to al Qaeda celebrated on Monday one of their deadliest attacks on the Yemeni army, parading military hardware seized after they killed more than 110 soldiers, as the Yemeni president swore to pursue the group with full force.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers raided a Palestinian television station in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday and seized broadcast equipment, computers and files, an employee said.

ADEN/SANAA (Reuters) - Yemenis began voting on Tuesday to replace President Ali Abdullah Saleh in an election many hope will give Yemen a chance to rebuild the country shattered by a year-long struggle that had pushed Yemen to the brink of civil war.

ADEN/SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen sought to turn a new page in its troubled history Tuesday with the sole candidate to succeed ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh looking for a strong mandate from voters to rebuild a country pushed to the brink of civil war.

ADEN/SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen ushered Ali Abdullah Saleh from power after 33 years on Tuesday, voting to endorse his deputy as president, with a mission to rescue the nation from poverty, chaos and the brink of civil war.

SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen pushed Ali Abdullah Saleh from power after 33 years on Tuesday, voting to install his deputy as president with a mission to rescue the nation from poverty, chaos and the brink of civil war.

SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - A general took power in Yemen Tuesday as the sole candidate in a presidential election after a year-long uprising that ousted long-serving ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh but left the poor Arab country still teetering on the brink of chaos.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians faced a second and more extensive disruption of Internet access Monday, just a week after email and social networking sites were blocked, raising concerns about state censorship ahead of parliamentary elections.

SANAA (Reuters) - Ali Abdullah Saleh, who once compared his 33-year rule of Yemen to "dancing on the heads of snakes," formally steps down this week after Yemenis anoint a new president in an election many hope will give Yemen a chance for democracy.

ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (Reuters) - Nerves were strained as an Iranian patrol boat approached the USS Abraham Lincoln at speed.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian leaders blamed Israel on Monday for the failure of exploratory talks aimed at resuming peace negotiations, and said they plan to explore alternative ways to bring about a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority announced on Sunday it was suspending plans to raise income tax that have sparked widespread protests but said it was still seeking ways to cut costs in 2012 to plug a gap resulting from lower-than-expected foreign aid revenues.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Former president Pervez Musharraf will return to Pakistan once the tensions between the government and the Supreme Court subside, a senior official in his All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) said Friday.

SANAA (Reuters) - At least 22 people were killed in clashes between Shi'ite Muslim rebels and fighters from a Sunni Islamist group in a province under rebel control in rugged northern Yemen, tribal sources said Thursday.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain's Interior Ministry said on Thursday that a man detained by police over "acts of sabotage" died in hospital while in custody, without elaborating on the cause of death.

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police Monday arrested two senior Hamas members at an International Committee of the Red Cross building in East Jerusalem where they had taken shelter for some 18 months, Red Cross and Israeli officials said.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Two months after mass protests ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak last February, Ahmed Essam resigned from his job at a well-established software company to set up a six-person venture developing applications for smart phones.

DOHA (Reuters) - From its startling winning bid to host the 2022 soccer World Cup and mediating roles in Middle East and African conflicts to its role leading Arab efforts to isolate Syria, tiny Qatar is aspiring to an ambitious role: global powerbroker.

SANAA (Reuters) - Islamist militants raised their flag over the Yemeni town of Radda and pledged allegiance to al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, residents said Monday, shortly after seizing the area a couple of hours' drive from the capital Sanaa.