Syria News
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Updated 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
The “Friends of Syria” gather tomorrow in Tunisia to seek ways to oust President Bashar al- Assad, who has dug in with increasing violence against civilian opponents after two failed UN Security Council measures.
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Updated 31 minutes ago
On Feb. 24, the U.S., European nations, members of the Arab League and other sympathetic countries making up the newly established “Friends of Syria” group will gather in Tunisia for an emergency meeting on how to stem the bloodshed in Syria. Their deliberations are almost certain to involve calls for more crippling sanctions to bring about regime change and debates over providing military support to the fractured opposition groups inside the country.
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Julia Gillard staged a political coup in June 2010 to become Australia’s prime minister and clung to power two months later, assembling a one-seat majority after the closest election since 1940. Her biggest leadership test may come next week.
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The Syrian government is responsible for the deaths and injuries to journalists in a bombardment of a residential neighborhood in the Syrian city of Homs, French Foreign Affairs Minister Alain Juppe said.
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An American reporter working for the U.K.’s Sunday Times and a French photographer were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs when shells hit them while they were reporting from the city, French officials said.
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Residents of Homs, the Syrian city under siege for almost three weeks, sought to negotiate a cease- fire with the army, according to activists, as two western journalists were reportedly killed by an artillery attack.
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Syrian dissidents formed an opposition group including minority Alawites, Turkmens, Yezidis and Druse, saying they weren’t represented in the main organization challenging President Bashar al-Assad, Hurriyet Daily News reported.
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European leaders’ rescue plan for Greece is an “important step” and the continent’s challenges include boosting economic growth, the U.S. Treasury Department’s top international official said.
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Europe’s bailout plan for Greece is an “important step” and the continent’s challenges include boosting economic growth, the U.S. Treasury Department’s top international official said.
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Oil traded near the highest price in nine months in New York after euro-area finance ministers agreed on a second bailout for Greece.
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