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Yemen arrests 50 foreigners, clashes hit south

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Yemen has detained around 50 foreigners accused of links to al Qaeda as it has intensified monitoring of Arabic language schools, a Saudi-owned Arab newspaper said on Monday.

In south Yemen, two people were shot dead and 13 were injured in the province of Dalea after separatists raised secessionist flags over their homes and protested in the street.

Al-Hayat newspaper said that U.S., British, French and Malaysian nationals were among the foreigners detained since a failed December attempt to bomb a U.S.-bound plane. The Nigerian suspect in that case had studied Arabic in Sanaa.

Yemen’s Western allies and Saudi Arabia fear al Qaeda is trying to exploit instability in Yemen to use the impoverished country, with domestic conflicts in its north and south, as a base to launch attacks in the region and beyond.

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