Yemen's leader offers to step down
Yemen’s embattled president agreed tonight to a proposal by Gulf Arab mediators to step down within 30 days and hand power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution, a major about-face for the autocratic leader who has ruled for 32 years.
A coalition of seven opposition parties, which do not speak for all of the hundreds of thousands of protesters seeking President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s ousting, said they also accepted the deal but with reservations.
