Anti-government Protest, Yemen | featured news

President Ali Abdullah Saleh, his support within Yemen's government crumbling, offers to leave office before his term ends in 2013, though not immediately.

A top general in Yemen joined the anti-government protest movement and will order his troops to protect protesters demonstrating against the country's long-time president, the general told reporters in Yemen.

Yemeni security forces and unidentified snipers opened fire at a protest in Sanaa after Muslim prayers Friday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 200 others, medical sources and witnesses told Reuters.