Yemen on the Brink

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Yahya Arhab / EPA

Sana'a, Oct. 16, 2011
Yemeni medics carry a wounded defected soldier to a makeshift hospital after he was shot by security forces loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a, Yemen, Oct. 16, 2011.

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