President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned to Yemen Friday after three months in Saudi Arabia recovering from an assassination attempt and was greeted by the sound of gunfire and explosions across the capital.

A rocket attack on a protest camp in Yemen's capital Sanaa Tuesday raised the death toll to at least 58 in some of the deadliest violence to hit the country in eight months of pro-democracy demonstrations.

Yemen's military blamed Al Qaeda for the rocket attack on the Presidential palace in Sanaa on Friday, which killed seven people and left President Ali Abdullah Saleh injured. The statement was made as an Internet posting on Sunday, reported Reuters.

Three men running technology vendor businesses were indicted last week for selling millions of dollars worth of laptops to Iran.

Opposition forces in Yemen have spurned a peace initiative by the Gulf States to resolve the country’s political crisis and have now set a two-week deadline for embattled President Ali Abdullah to resign his office.

A clash in Yemeni capitol of Sanaa between pro-government forces and those loyal to an opposition figure who defected has led to the deaths of at least five people.

In the biggest demonstration against the President yet, many thousands of Yemenis have gathered in capitol city of Sanaa demanding the immediate resignation of Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Yemeni opposition groups are planning to march to the palace of the embattled president on Friday to demand his immediate ouster in defiance of the 30-day state of emergency passed by the parliament to quell unceasing rebellion in the poverty-stricken nation.

Algerian opposition groups said on Sunday they would follow up the protest they held this weekend by calling a demonstration in the capital every Saturday until the government is changed.

Algerian opposition groups said on Friday they would probably go ahead with a planned protest march next week despite promises from the president to heed some of their demands and allow more political freedoms.

Algerian opposition groups said on Friday they would probably go ahead with a planned protest march next week despite promises from the president to heed some of their demands and allow more political freedoms.

The United States believes Iran may be heading toward a military dictatorship and that its Revolutionary Guard Corps is supplanting its government, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday.

An Iranian court has confirmed a jail sentence of five years for a reformist former industries minister over his role in unrest that erupted after last year's disputed election, ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

The authorities have banned memorial gatherings for a leading dissident cleric in most parts of Iran, reformist websites said on Thursday, days ahead of an emotive Shi'ite ritual that may draw more opposition protests.

The World Bank unveiled its $215 million Central African Backbone program on Tuesday, to bring reliable, high-speed, low-cost internet access to the region for the first time.

Twenty one-year-old Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf brings the bloody street protests that followed June's presidential vote to the big screen in a film looking at the hopes and frustrations of the country's youth.

An Iranian commander said 36 people died in unrest after June's disputed election, including three in a Tehran prison, more than the official figures but half the number claimed by the opposition.

The son of an adviser to a defeated Iranian presidential candidate died after being beaten in jail, a semi-official news agency reported on Monday, citing a report from the coroner's office.

Former President Mohammad Khatami said on Wednesday trial confessions by moderates accused of fomenting post-election unrest were made under extraordinary conditions and were invalid, an Iranian news agency reported.

An Iranian prosecutor called on Tuesday for maximum punishment of a senior reformer for acting against national security, a crime punishable by death, in the fourth mass trial of moderates after the disputed election.

The speaker of Iran's parliament on Wednesday rejected as baseless an opposition leader's accusation that moderates had been raped in jail following their detention in unrest linked to June's disputed presidential poll.

Iranian authorities have tightened pressure on their opponents by staging what former President Mohammad Khatami derided Sunday as a show trial of 100 reformists accused of trying to instigate a velvet revolution.

Moderate former president Mohammad Khatami rejected as a show the trial of 100 prominent reformers who were arrested after Iran's disputed June presidential poll set off unrest, his website said on Sunday.

The trials began on Saturday of 100 prominent moderates arrested shortly after Iran's disputed June presidential election and charged with trying to overthrow the clerical establishment, Iranian media reported.

Iran's opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said on Monday the pro-reform protests which erupted after the country's disputed June presidential vote will continue, his website reported.

The son of an advisor to Iran's defeated conservative presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaie was killed in a Tehran prison after being detained in post-election unrest, a reformist website said on Saturday.

Iran's opposition urged senior clerics on Saturday to help secure the release of people arrested following June's disputed presidential election, after a protester died in prison.

A defeated candidate in Iran's disputed election has said the Islamic system may face collapse unless it embraces change, in unusually blunt language from a prominent establishment figure.

Iran's disputed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be sworn in for a second four-year term before parliament between July 26 and August 19, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA)reported on its website.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared on Wednesday that a disputed election result would stand, despite street protests that Iranian officials say Britain and the United States have incited.