21.  An explosion and sustained artillery fire rattled a district in the northeast of the Yemeni capital near an Islamic institute, according to witnesses.

22.  An explosion and sustained artillery fire rattled the poor Habra area in the northeast of the Yemeni capital near an Islamic institute on Sunday night, witnesses said.

23.  Brahimi last Thursday met President Ali Abdallah Saleh, a northerner, in the Yemeni capital.

24.  But the accord did not cover the border stretching from Jabel al-Thar, northeast of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, to Oman in the east.

25.  Egypt stepped up security at its embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday after a grenade attack, the ambassador Adel Sobhi told the official MENA news agency.

26.  The two leaders had been negotiating the agreement in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, since the beginning of May.

27.  They are now at Malaysian Embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.

28.  The World Bank has decided to dramatically boost its annual aid to Yemen to help stabilize its economy, a Bank official visiting the Yemeni capital Sanaa said Tuesday.

29.  Two Swedish police officers are being prevented from leaving the Yemeni capital of Sanaa after the authorities there confiscated their passports, the Swedish foreign ministry said late Thursday.

30.  Yemeni forces ripped down the Saudi flag but the tribesmen remained camped in the area, according to Western diplomats in the Yemeni capital.