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reuters:

Women check their names on a list before they vote at a polling station during presidential elections in Al Hasaba neighborhood in Sanaa February 21, 2012. 

Yemenis began voting on Tuesday to replace President Ali Abdullah Saleh in an election many hope will give Yemen a chance to rebuild the country shattered by a year-long struggle that had pushed Yemen to the brink of civil war. Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi stands uncontested as a consensus candidate. [REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah]

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