Optimism has been further

temper

ed by one European labouratory which says it can't be sure that, as thought, contaminated vegetables were

definitely

the source of the E.coli outbreak.

And the veteran American actor James Arness, who starred for 20 years in the hit television Western Gunsmoke, has died in California. He was 88. James Arness played US Marshal Matt Dillon from 1955 until 1975 and helped make Gunsmoke one of the longest-running shows on American prime-time network television. John Wayne

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也门首都萨那总统府遭遇炮击，总统等多名官员受伤。六个多小时之后，也门国家电视台广播了总统萨利赫发表的简短讲话。但是萨利赫并没有露面，人们只是听到他的声音。他谴责了非法的反政府部落武装发动的袭击。Lina Sinjab在萨那报道。

萨利赫总统发表的讲话录音非常简短。他说，他在总统府遇袭时受轻伤，另外有七人遇难。此前，也门官员何杉姆·沙拉夫(Hesham Sharaf)告诉BBC，也门议会议长受重伤。这次袭击是连日来萨利赫总统的力量和主要竞争对手阿迈尔的部落盟友之间冲突的重大升级。政府力量指控阿迈尔的部落武装发动了这次袭击，但是他们却矢口否认。

叙利亚人权积极分子表示，中部城市哈马的安全力量向示威者开枪，造成至少34人死亡。他说，共有100,000人参加了这个城市的反政府抗议活动。Jim Muir在邻国黎巴嫩报道。