Yemeni President President Ali Abdullah Saleh has arrived in New York after being granted State Department approval. A Yemeni official said Saleh is on a “short-term private medical visit.” He was seriously wounded in June, when the presidential palace in Sana’a was bombed. Saleh arrived in the United States one week after Yemen’s parliament granted him blanket amnesty and granted all those who served with him immunity from prosecution for using deadly force against anti-government protesters over the past year.