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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he hoped that Francois Hollande’s election as French president will lead to a change in French policy toward his country.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a Russian state news channel that the public in the country support his reform plans.
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A group of former Libyan rebels stormed the national government’s headquarters, demanding unpaid wages, the Libya News Agency reported. Gunfire was heard from inside the building, eyewitnesses said.
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Kadri Jamil took a deep puff of his cigarette before waving his hand dismissively when asked why he was a candidate for Syria’s parliamentary elections.
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Egypt will offer 4 billion Egyptian pounds ($662 million) of three- and nine-month treasury bills as Saudi Arabia said it would this month start “implementing” an aid package agreed on almost a year ago.
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The United Nations has recruited only half the 300 military observers it needs to staff its unarmed monitoring force in Syria, a cease-fire mission that one Security Council diplomat said is designed to fail.
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Attacks on the Syrian central bank in Damascus and three blasts in the northern city of Idlib killed at least eight people and injured many more, state television reported.
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A suicide bomb killed at least nine people today in the Syrian capital, Damascus, state media reported, as United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the continuing violence “totally unacceptable.”
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At least seven people were killed in fighting throughout Syria as the U.S. said the United Nations-backed peace plan for the country was failing.
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The United Nations said it’s ready to send more observers to Syria in a week to help monitor implementation of a cease-fire agreement, as Russia and China voiced support for the mission.
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