Protesters kept up the heat on Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday as deaths mounted in the flashpoint city of Taez, even as a dissident general denied aiming to replace the Yemeni leader.
On the regional scene, Yemen recalled its Ambassador to Qatar, state news agency Saba announced, on Saturday after a call from the Gulf state for Mr. Saleh to step down stirred anger in Sana'a.