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Polling stations beset before Yemenis vote

Associated Press

  February 21, 2012

Gunmen attacked two polling stations and killed one soldier in Yemen’s restive south Monday, one day before the country is to go to the polls to rubber stamp its vice president as the new head of state. Also Monday, al-Qaida linked militants killed two soldiers outside of a city controlled by jihadists. The attacks underline the security vacuum in the Arabian peninsula’s poorest country after a one-year popular uprising seeking to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

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