{"id":66137,"date":"2011-02-14T13:02:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T09:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=66137"},"modified":"2011-02-14T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T09:02:32","slug":"yemens-president-postpones-us-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/14\/yemens-president-postpones-us-visit.html","title":{"rendered":"Yemen&#8217;s President Postpones US Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen&#8217;s president, in the wake of Arab uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, has postponed a visit to the United States due to take place later this month, state news agency Saba said on Sunday, AFP reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Ali Abdullah Saleh has decided to postpone a visit to the United States &#8230; scheduled for late February due to the current developments in the region,&#8221; an official in his office said, quoted by Saba.<\/p>\n<p>He said the two countries would &#8220;communicate via diplomatic channels&#8221; to set a new date.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-riot police on Sunday used batons to disperse about 2,000 protesters in central Sanaa calling for Saleh to step down, injuring a woman and making 10 arrests, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>Police also used batons in the southern city of Taez to break up a protest in the main square, arresting 120 demonstrators, participants told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>And thousands of young Yemenis gathered in Sanaa on Saturday calling for Saleh to step down like Egypt&#8217;s president Hosni Mubarak, who handed over to Egypt&#8217;s military after 18 days of mass protests.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen&#8217;s president, in the wake of Arab uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, has postponed a visit to the United States due to take place later this month.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21803,21802],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}