SANAA : The United States embassy in Yemen reopened on Tuesday, an embassy official said, a day after Yemeni forces killed two al Qaeda militants they said were behind a threat that had forced US and European missions to close.

“We are reopened,” a US embassy official said. The embassy had closed on Sunday in response to what it said were al Qaeda threats and came as concern grew about stability in the poorest Arab country.

The British and French embassies resumed operations but remained closed to the public, diplomats at those embassies said.

SYDNEY : Australia on Tuesday said there was no evidence the murder of an Indian man in Melbourne was racially motivated, as it downplayed the impact of the killing on ties between the nations.

The death of 21-year-old Nitin Garg, who was stabbed fatally in the abdomen as he walked to work at a hamburger restaurant on Saturday night, follows a string of crimes against Indian nationals in Australia.

The murder has received wide press coverage in India, with one newspaper describing Garg’s death as proof “that the issue of racist attacks on the Indian community needs to be addressed by the Australian authorities.”

But Australia’s Acting Foreign Minister said while the murder was an emotional issue, there was nothing to suggest the killing was a race attack.

“It is an unfortunate — very unfortunate — circumstance, but the police have continued to reaffirm the fact that there is no evidence that this is a racially based attack,” Simon Crean told reporters.

The accounting graduate’s death prompted an angry response in India, with Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna describing the murder as a “crime on humanity” and saying it would “certainly” affect ties between the two countries.

But Crean, who is trade minister, said Australian officials had been in contact with the Indian High Commission in Canberra as he downplayed the impact on bilateral ties between the growing trading partners.

Asked whether the issue would hurt relations, Crean said: “I doubt very much that it will.”

In India, the Mail Today said Garg’s murder showed that Australian police needed to do more to stop violence against Indians.

“The police claim that it is too early to describe the attack as racist, but there are enough indicators that it is most likely to have been motivated by the victim’s national origins,” it said in an editorial.

The paper ran a cartoon depicting an Australian policeman wearing a pointed white hood associated with the US racist group the Ku Klux Klan. The officer was shown saying “We are yet to ascertain the nature of the crime.”

LUCKNOW: At least four people were killed and more than 40 injured when four express trains collided in separate incidents in the fog-bound northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, police and railway officials said.

In the first incident, an inter-city express rammed into the back of a stationary passenger train near the town of Sarai Bhupat, 250 kilometres (155 miles) southwest of the state capital Lucknow.

Additional police director general Brij Lal said at least 10 passengers were injured.

Four people died in the second accident 45 minutes later when two other expresses collided in similar fashion, some 80 kilometres (50 miles) southwest of Lucknow, Lal said.

“At least 35 others were injured in the impact which damaged four carriages,” Lal told French news agency.

Senior railways official M.N. Srivastava said the impact in both cases had been minimised by the fact that the trains were travelling at low speeds because of the dense fog.

Visibility at both accident sites was down to around 30 metres (100 feet).

An estimated 2,000 passengers, mostly returning from year-end vacations, were travelling in the four trains.

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