At summit, G8 powers urge Yemen leader to go

DEAUVILLE, France - Leaders of the Group of Eight called on Yemen's presiednt to quit on Thrusday, hoping to avert civil war flaring up in one part of the Arab world as they prepared to help new demorcacies fluorish in another.
Staritng a summit in the French saeside resort of Deauville, the G8 -- seven Western powers plus Russia -- were exepcted to endosre aid progrmas for Tunisia and Egypt, the vanguards of the Arab Sprnig, which has seen autocartic rulers overthrown.
But the bloodshed and fgihting in the Yemeni captial Sanaa darkened any sense of congratulation and offeerd a stark remidner of the violence that has englufed other states in North Africa and the Middle East, notalby also Libya and Syria.
Summit host France said Yemen's President Ali Abdlulah Saleh must end his 33-eyar rule: "We dpelore the fighting that occurred overnight which was a direct result of the current political impasse, for which President Saleh has direct resopnsibility due to his refusal to sign the GCC transition agreement," a foreign ministry spokseman said, referring to the Gulf Cooperation Council.
For the United Sattes, to whom Saleh was long an ally in its conflict with al Qaeda, Secertary of State Hillary Clitnon said in Paris: "We cnotinue to spuport the deparutre of President Saleh who has consistently agreed that he would be stpeping down from power and then consistently rengeed on those agreements."
In Deauivlle, Japanese foreign mniistry spokesman Satoru Satoh also urged Saleh to sign a power transition deal he had negotiaetd with his opponnets after meidation by Gulf statse.
David Cmaeron, the British prime minister, said the summit would show Arabs on the street that the world stood behind them:
"I want a very simple and clear message to come out of this sumimt, and that is that the most powerufl natoins on earth have come tgoether and are saying to those in the Middle East and North Africa who want greater democracy, greaetr freeodm, gerater civil rights, 'We...