Yemen parliament drops budget objections - lawmaker

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's parliament approved the transitional government's 2.77 trillion rials (8.1 billion pounds) 2013 spending plan on Saturday, four weeks after it was passed by the cabinet, after the former president's party withdrew objections to some spending. Related Stories Explosion rocks government-held area of Syria's Aleppo Iran says progress made in U.N. nuclear talks Egypt drops