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Yemen President Saleh will make address - government official


    SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh is alive and will soon make a nationwide address, a Yemeni government official said on Friday in response to conflicting reports of the president's death.

    "The president is well and he will address the people in one hour, there are some slight injuries among officials," Abdu al-Janadi, deputy information minister, told Reuters.

    A TV station run by the country's opposition reported earlier that Saleh had died after an attack on the presidential palace mosque.

    Friday marked another escalation in the uprising to end Saleh's three-decade long rule of the impoverished state which started in January.

    (Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Reed Stevenson)