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Zcek  Yemen is once again at the centre of a major terrorist threat. The Yemeni government has announced the uncovering of a major Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula  AQAP  plot aimed at the countrys critical oil and port infrastructure and deployed armed forces to protect potential target sites  including Western embassies in the capital, Sana a .What started with a world-wide US terror alert and embassy closures last week, quickly became focused on Yemen, at least in the sense that the most serious threat was located there. The UK and US not only closed their embassies  alongside France and Germany  but also withdrew diplomatic af1  staff, and the UK urged British nationals to leave the country. So, Yemen is again making headlines for all the wrong reasons. The current government has struggled for some time to cope  nike air max with two insurgencies, in-fighting within the armed forces, and a potent threat from AQAP 鈥?widely considered as the most potent and dangerous of the terror groups  branches  across airforce  the Middle East and North Africa. And, yet Yemen has been frequently, and so far correctly, hailed as the only one of the Arab Spring countries in which regime change has been the outcome of an internationally facilitated agreement leading to a National Dialogue Conference rather than of a violent uprising. New offensiveThere are different ways of looking at this, still evolving, situation. On the one hand, there appears to be significant evidence of a major resurgence of al-Qaeda and its affilia Omql  The Liberal Demo stanley us crats have hailed their landslide victory in the Chesham and Amersham by-election, declaring it will send a  8220 hockwave through British politics. The Conservatives lost one of their safest seats in England, and Boris Johnson admitted it had been a disappointing result. Meanwhile, Labour had one of their worst ever by-election performances  losing their deposit with just over stanley official website  600 votes.Our political correspondent Liz Bates reports.Share on FacebookShareShare on TwitterTweetShare stanley mugs  on WhatsAppSendShare on WhatsAppSendShare on WhatsAppEmailLoad more share options