Police were still struggling Wednesday to put down protests in Yemen that have been steadily ongoing for several days and on-and-off for weeks now. Conciliatory gestures from the government, most notably a promise from President Ali Abdullah Saleh that he would not run for reelection in the 2013 presidential elections, have , the New York Times reported. On Sunday, more than 1,000 people turned out in the streets of the capital in a seemingly leaderless event that bore similarities to Egypt's mass uprisings.