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• Yemen leader says ready to step down by year-end Mar 22, 2022 05:47 AM
  
  • SANAA, Yemen - A spokesman for President Ali Abdullah Saleh says the Yemeni leader is willing to step down by the end of the year as part of a "constitutional" transfer of power.
  • Ahmed al-Sufi told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Saleh informed senior Yemeni officials, military commanders and tribal leaders of his intention in meetings on Monday night.
  • It is not clear whether the opposition movement calling for Saleh's ouster will accept his latest offer, especially after his security forces shot dead more than 40 protesters on Friday.

  • Opening statements set for Tuesday in Bonds trial Mar 22, 2022 05:38 AM
    
    • SAN FRANCISCO - Now that a jury has been selected in the Barry Bonds perjury trial, the prosecutors and the slugger's lawyers are scheduled Tuesday to deliver opening statements.
    • The jurors were excused Monday afternoon without hearing testimony, which will begin after opening statements.
    • Along with the swearing in of the jury and opening statements, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston is expected to send the jurors out of the courtroom Tuesday so she can send Bonds' former personal trainer Greg Anderson to jail.

    • Pool boils at Japan nuke plant as evacuees weary Mar 22, 2022 05:38 AM
      
      • FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Weariness and anxiety percolated Tuesday among people who left their homes near Japan's radiation-shedding nuclear complex as workers tried urgently to cool an overheated storage pool and methodically to reconnect critical cooling systems.
      • "We cannot leave this alone and we must take care of it as quickly as possible," said the official, Hidehiko Nishiyama.
      • People at Fukushima city's main evacuation center waited in long lines for bowls of hot noodle soup.

      • Buoyed by strikes, Libya rebels try to advance Mar 22, 2022 05:06 AM
        
        • ZWITINA, Libya - Coalition forces bombarded Libya for a third straight night, targeting the air defenses and forces of Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, stopping his advances and handing some momentum back to the rebels, who were on the verge of defeat just last week.
        • The air campaign by U.S. and European militaries has unquestionably rearranged the map in Libya and rescued rebels from the immediate threat they faced only days ago of being crushed under a powerful advance by Gadhafi's forces.
        • But while the airstrikes can stop Gadhafi's troops from attacking rebel cities - in line with the U.N. mandate to protect civilians - the United States, at least, appeared deeply reluctant to go beyond that toward actively helping the rebel cause to oust the Libyan leader.

        • Ex-Israeli president Katsav sentenced to 7 years Mar 22, 2022 04:48 AM
          
          • TEL AVIV, Israel - An Israeli court ordered former Israeli President Moshe Katsav to prison for seven years Tuesday following his rape conviction, rejecting his attorneys' request for leniency and making him the highest-ranking Israel official ever sent to jail.
          • The silver-haired Katsav broke down in tears and screamed at the judges: "You made a mistake!
          • In December, the Tel Aviv Disctrict Court found Katsav, 65, guilty of raping a former employee and sexually harassing two other women who used to work for him.

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