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ADEN-SABA
Yemen's official news agency (Saba) has condemned the storming of its office by outlawed militants in Aden on Wednesday.
In a statement, Saba's administration said the gunmen are responsible for any harm that might happen to its employees or to the premises being rehabilitated to serve as a main headquarters in the temporary capital.
The statement decried the militants' threats to break into the office again should it formally open.
The statement wondered at the insistence of those militants to break into the office and to implicate the agency in their narrow [political] calculations.