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Yemeni President Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh Muhammed Muheisen/AP/Press Association Images

Will Yemeni president stay or go?

It is still not known whether Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will return home after receiving treatment in Saudi Arabia for injuries.

THERE HAVE BEEN differing stories emerging about whether or not the President of Yemen will return home after receiving hospital treatment for an injury.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh is being treated for shrapnel wounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

One Saudi official told Reuters that the Yemeni president will return to his country within days, but could not specify a date.

However, The Daily Star says today that one anonymous Saudi official claims that the President will not be returning home.

Saleh was injured during a shell attack on 3 June at his presidential compound in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.

He has been in power for 33 years and refused to step down from his role despite continuous unrest across the country over the past four months.

During the explosion, he sustained burns to his face, neck, arms and back, according to reports.

He has not been seen in public since the attack.

Saudi and Yemeni official media have reported that Saleh has spoken with King Abdullah as well as Bahrain’s king in recent days.

Acting as temporary head of state during Saleh’s absence is Yemeni Vice President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, who met with the leaders of youth protests earlier this week.

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    Dec 12th 2023, 2:29 PM

    They used to send criminals, times have changed…

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    Dec 12th 2023, 5:27 PM

    @brian o’leary: True. Much better to choose to go than be sent.

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    Dec 12th 2023, 4:14 PM

    Plenty of Guards heading over there too. Can you blame any of them?

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    The English political classes must be so fed up with that backwater NI. How much they’d save dispensing with it must be top of their minds all the time.

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    Dec 12th 2023, 3:07 PM

    For serving police with mental health issues in such a volatile, divided community to have to wait 8 months to see a psychologist is unacceptable and cruel beyond words. They can’t find them an hour a week?
    Just f%$king fire a few “important” people and hire a team of psychologists.
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    Australia would be great. It’s a long way from the knuckle draggers.

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    Dec 12th 2023, 2:53 PM

    @Pato: explain???

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    Dec 12th 2023, 3:09 PM

    @Aidan Maguire. Imagine trying to be a police person in Norn Iron. The SFs won’t be happy,or, if they are, then the “loyalists” won’t

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    Don’t blame them getting out of that bitter old kip .DUP WON’T BE HAPPY

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    The far left boycotting the ambassadors Christmas party, Christmas must have come early for the US ambassador

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    @Murray peter: no ferrero roshers at the party?

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    Why is this a news story?

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