SANAA (Reuters) ? Explosions rocked the Yemeni capital Sanaa and clashes between government forces and soldiers backing protesters resumed on Thursday with time running low for a diplomatic solution to prevent the country from sliding into full-blown civil war.
Another anti-government demonstrator was shot dead and at least eight wounded by snipers just off "Change Square," where activists have camped out for eight months demanding an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year rule.
A ceasefire called by Yemen's vice president and acting leader earlier this week failed to hold for more than a few hours, lending greater urgency to diplomacy to end the bloodshed, which has killed some 86 people in five days.
"There are some initiatives being discussed for a political solution under the supervision of Jamal bin Omar and we hope these efforts succeed. Their failure will push this country into more violence," a high-ranking Yemeni opposition official told Reuters, referring to the U.N. envoy on the Yemen crisis.
In another sign of worsening conditions for a political solution, Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary General Abdbullatif al-Zayani left Sanaa empty-handed on Wednesday night after a two day effort to get a mediated power transfer plan signed.
That deal would see Saleh, who is recovering in neighboring Saudi Arabia from a June assassination attempt, hand over power in a matter of months. He has already accepted it only to back out at the very last minute on three occasions.
Yemen's bloody deterioration is causing alarm abroad because central governance has unraveled, leaving a gun-ridden power vacuum filled by al Qaeda militants and separatist factions near vulnerable oil shipping lanes in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
Back in "Change Square," angry protesters set fire to a house where they said snipers were hiding, while medics set up a blood donation campaign to help the wounded.
Escalating confrontation between heavily armed supporters of Saleh and his opponents points to the worst-case scenario for diplomats struggling to finalize the power handover deal while Saleh convalesces in Riyadh.
Lawlessness could also give fertile ground to al Qaeda, whose militants in the past few months have seized cities in a province just east of a key oil shipping channel.
(Reporting by Erika Solomon; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110922/wl_nm/us_yemen
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Microsoft and Nokia have teamed up on a package of new tools aimed at getting Nokia developers prepared for the transition to Windows Phone. 
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? I grew up on an early Commodore PET with green screen, followed by BBC Micros, Acorn Electrons, etc. I?ve had a couple of occasions to look back on that era recently, with a visit to The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, seeing the team from TNMoC visit the Brighton Mini Maker Faire, and through talking to folks at TransferSummit (of which more, in a moment). In my day, you plugged in the power, the machine made a satisfying BEEP! and you were presented with a black screen with the word BASIC and a > prompt. That?s just how things worked. To do anything else, you had to tell the computer to do it ? and you learned a lot as you did so!
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