Great Britain and Germany are pulling all nonessential staff from their embassies in Yemen due to ongoing unrest there, officials said Thursday.

Also, the diplomats at the Yemen Embassy in the U.S. resigned from their posts, except the ambassador, “due to divisions over Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s response to the ongoing protests and riots,” a source close to the Embassy said.

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