Aden — At least 36 people have been killed and 185 wounded in two days of heavy fighting between separatists and government troops in Yemen’s interim capital of Aden, the Red Cross said. At least another 11 people were killed on Tuesday in a suicide bombing at a southeastern checkpoint run by local forces backed by the United Arab Emirates, officials and residents said. Residents said gunmen opened fire on the checkpoint after a suicide bomber drove his booby-trapped car into the checkpoint northeast of Ataq, the capital of the province of Shabwa. In Aden, heavy fighting intensified at night after the two sides used tank and artillery on the second day of an attempted "coup" in the southern port city, military sources said. The Saudi-led military coalition which supports the government called on Tuesday for an immediate cease-fire and an end to "all forms of armed conflict", in a statement cited by Saudi state news agency SPA. It said it would take "all necessary measures to restore...
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