1. Abdel-Qawi Makkawi, a prominent Yemeni opposition leader and a former prime minister of South Yemen died in Cairo Wednesday. 2. A Yemeni opposition leader on Thursday dismissed calls that he and three others be arrested for fighting to withdraw the South from unified Yemen last year. 3. Abdel-Qawi Makkawi, a prominent Yemeni opposition leader and former prime minister, dies of a heart attack in Cairo, Egypt. 4. Al-Haqiqah weekly newspaper was shut down in September for publishing an interview with a Yemeni opposition figure, the group said. 5. Following the protest, organized by Yemeni opposition groups, Yemeni special forces troops and security personnel deployed around the embassy. 6. In September, Al-Haqiqah weekly newspaper was shut down for publishing an interview with a Yemeni opposition figure, the group said. 7. Yemeni opposition groups call on government to allow volunteers to fight alongside Iraqis in the event of an American attack. 8. Yemeni opposition groups here and abroad condemned the trial, which lasted almost two years, saying the government should rather have sought to encourage reconciliation. 9. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has suggested Egypt hand over Yemeni opposition leaders living in Cairo in exchange for Egyptian Muslim extremists held in Yemen. 10. Yemeni opposition groups called on their government Sunday to allow volunteers to fly to Baghdad and fight alongside Iraqis in the event of an American attack. |