Yemen Holds Presidential Election

Tawakel Karman, a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, with colored headscarf, gestures after voting at a polling station in Sanna, Yemen, Feb. 21, 2012.

Yemenis headed for the polling stations Tuesday morning to vote for a successor to President Ali Abdullah Saleh with the aim of pulling the impoverished country back from possible civil war. <Photo: Xinhua/Mohammed Mohammed>

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