Thousands of Yemenis protest against Saleh

SANAA, Feb 28 (Reuters): Tens of thousands of protesters demanding the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year rule of Yemen joined demonstrations Monday, while skirmishes in the south killed three soldiers and a policeman. Witnesses said around 5,000 protesters who have camped out nightly in the streets near Sanaa University, shouted "We have one demand: the fall of the oppressor." Protests against Saleh, a U.S. ally against an al Qaeda wing based in Yemen, have spread across the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state in more than a month of protests. "Leave and take your corruption with you," the protesters in Sanaa shouted. In the northern cities of Ibb and Hudeida, thousands of protesters gathered while at least 10,000 took to the streets in Taiz, 200 km (125 miles) south of the capital.