Saleh 'Will Not Return To Yemen'

The Daily Telegraph reports:

Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's embattled president, who is being treated for shrapnel wounds in Saudi Arabia, will not return home, according to a Saudi official.

Contradicting claims President Saleh would return from Riyadh soon, the official, told the news agency AFP: "The Yemeni president will not return to Yemen".

It has not been decided where he will stay," the official added, apparently suggesting that Mr Saleh might eventually leave Saudi Arabia for another country.

The official did not specify whether the decision not to return home was taken by Mr Saleh himself.

A Yemeni government official denied the reports, saying that President Saleh would return to the country within days.

The veteran leader was flown to Riyadh on June 4 on board a Saudi medical aircraft, a day after he was wounded in a bomb explosion at a mosque inside his Sanaa presidential compound.

He has not been seen in public since the attack.