(Reuters) - "... "I think a negotiated solution is slowly slipping away, and that some type of pressure is going to have to be applied as opposed to words."
Yemen's opposition, furious over the last-minute snag, said it could escalate pressure on the president .... "We are studying the options of escalations and waiting for a U.S.-European stance on Saleh's refusal to sign," a senior opposition leader told Reuters on Sunday, declining to be named because no formal decision had been taken..... ... The United States and neighbouring oil giant Saudi Arabia want the Yemen standoff resolved to avert chaos that could make a Yemen wing of al Qaeda a greater threat to the region. That threat flared on Sunday, when six soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Abyan and Hadramawt provinces, which have seen frequent conflict with Islamists..."
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