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Libya cease- fire aims to outflank no- fly zone TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Trying to outmaneuver Western military interven- tion, Moammar Gadhafi's government declared a cease-fire on Friday against the rebel uprising faltering against his artillery, tanks and warplanes. The opposi- tion said shells rained down well after the announce- ment and accused the Libyan leader of lying. Wary of the cease-fire, Britain and France took the lead in plans to enforce a no-fly zone, sending British warplanes to the Mediter- ranean and announcing a crisis summit in Paris with the U.N. and Arab allies. In Washington, President Barack Obama ruled out the use of American ground troops but warned that the U.S., which has an array of naval and air forces in the region, would join in mili- tary action. There should be no doubt about the Libyan leader's intentions "because he has made them clear," Obama said. "Just yester- day, speaking of the city of Benghazi, a city of roughly 700,000, he threatened 'we will have no mercy and no pity.' No mercy on his own citizens." In a joint statement to Gadhafi late Friday, the United States, Britain and France — backed by unspecified Arab countries — said a cease-fire must begin "immediately" in Libya, the French presiden- tial palace said. The statement called on Gadhafi to end his troops' advance toward Benghazi, the rebel headquarters, and pull them out of the cities of Misrata, Ajdabiya and Zawiya, and called for the restoration of water, elec- tricity and gas services in all areas. It said Libyans must be able to receive humani- tarian aid or the "interna- tional community will make him suffer the conse- quences" with military action. Japanese officials say disasters overwhelmed government TOKYO (AP) — Sirens wailed Friday along a dev- astated coastline to mark exactly one week since an earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear emer- gency, and the government acknowledged it was slow to respond to the disasters that the prime minister called a "great test for the Japanese people." The admission came as Japan welcomed U.S. help in stabilizing its overheat- ed, radiation-leaking nuclear complex and raised the accident level for the crisis, putting it on a par with the 1979 Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania. Nuclear experts have been saying for days that Japan was underplaying the severity of the prob- lems at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant on the northeast coast. The tsunami knocked out power to cooling sys- tems at the nuclear plant. Since then, four of Fukushima's six reactor units have seen fires, explosions or partial melt- downs. 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