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Clinton in Yemen for first U.S. Sec State visit in 20 yrs


    SANAA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unannounced visit to Yemen on Tuesday to press for a broader partnership with Yemen's government in the face of an al Qaeda insurgency increasingly seen as a global threat.

    "It's not enough to have military-to-military relations," Clinton said before her plane touched down in Yemen's capital Sanaa, making her the first U.S. secretary of state to visit the Arabian peninsula country in over two decades.

    "We need to try to broaden the dialogue. We need to have this dialogue with the government," she said.

    (Reporting by Andrew Quinn, editing by Cynthia Johnston)