At least nine people have been killed in clashes in Yemen, where elections have been taken place for a new president to replace Ali Abdullah Saleh who is in power for 33 years. Yemen's Vice-President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi is the only candidate. The violence followed a call for a boycott of the vote by separatists in southern Yemen. But the BBC's Rupert Wingfield Hayes in the capital Sanaa says voting in much of the country has been peaceful.
Election officials say, so far this polling station, roughly 45% to 50% of the registered voters have come. There's obviously no question over who people are voting for – there's only one candidate. But that isn't really the point. This election isn't about really choosing a new leader; it's about putting a seal on the 33-year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Greek police say a stock of weapons discovered at the Libyan embassy in Athens has been handed to them on the orders of the Libyan government. Police say the arsenal appears to have been amassed by officials loyal to the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. When Libyan diplomats found the weapons, they notified their government, and were told to give them to the Greek authorities. Greek anti-terrorism officers are examining the hoard.
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Greek government ministers are discussing how to implement emergency legislation needed as part of the eurozone bailout package agreed in the early hours of Tuesday. After returning from negotiations in Brussels, the Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said his heavily indebted country had avoided, as he put it, the nightmare scenario. But he said much work remain to extricate Greece from an economic crisis. Mark Lowen reports from Athens.