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Assad Defiance in Syria Spurs U.S., Allies to Mull New Steps
San Francisco Chronicle
24 to discuss Syria, MENA reported. "We cannot accept the spilling of the blood of brothers in Syria. Government can only last so long with tanks and cannon," Turkish Foreign Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today. "Assad says 'I will fight to the ...
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Turkish PM Tells Assad His Days Are Numbered
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Tensions have been running high between Turkey and Syria as Ankara has become increasingly vocal in its criticism of Assad's crackdown on antigovernment protesters. Earliertoday, Turkish media reports said two Turkish citizens were injured when a ...
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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Syrian National Council drafts vision for “new Syria”
Bikya Masr
CAIRO: The opposition Syrian National Council today issued a draft political program setting out its objectives as well as a plan for the transitional period after the fall of the Baath regime and its vision of the newSyria. ...
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Bikya Masr
Egypt: The return to Tahrir Square- live updates
The Guardian
The behaviour of that regime is appalling and unacceptable and of course we will do what we can to support democracy in Syria in the future. Hague said he would be meeting representatives of various Syrian opposition groups in London later today. ...
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The Guardian
Turks sense dawn of new era of power and confidence
BBC News
But getting drawn in to any kind of intervention that might mean Turkish troops on Syrian and therefore Arab soil might also be risky. We want to be a big and powerful country again. You can feel it when you talk to people in Turkey today” But it is ...
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BBC News
Arab Spring blessing in disguise for Hamas
gulfnews.com
What made things more complicated was that despite their alliance with the Syrian government, seeing the Islamists come to power in Damascus would be a dream come true for Hamas. Hamas has an agenda today that is rather different from that of the ...
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gulfnews.com
SEA GAMES: Special flight for team
New Straits Times
A chartered plane will fly the Sea Games football team home immediately after today'sfinal to allow the players to recover for Wednesday's Olympic qualifier against Syria. The final will be the team's third game in five days and with back-to-back ...
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WTI Crude Tumbles Well Under $100 On Growth Concerns
India Infoline.com
Crude oil futures tumbled well under $100 per barrel for the WTI delivery today even as the tensions have risen in the Middle East over the weekend with escalations in Egypt,Syria and Yemen. The commodity started in a nervous manner as traders eyed ...
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Egypt, Syria, Iran and Israel - Approaching the Tipping Point
Canada Free Press
Unfortunately, today's American liberal, led by Barack Hussein Obama, refuses to see the importance of our relationship with Israel. The liberal left denies reality, and then make up their own reality. Israel is surrounded by nations that wish to ...
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Shadow Government: The global chess board
Foreign Policy (blog)
China and Russia realize this, hence their efforts to constrain American influence by vetoing the recent UN Security Council resolution on Syriaand watering down an emerging resolution on Iran, which as Mike Singh and Jacqueline Deal point out remains ...
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Foreign Policy (blog)
Week In Review: Transgender Day of Remembrance, Crackdown on Occupy Movement ...
The New Civil Rights Movement
Sectarian violence continues to plague Syria, where the city of Homs is ground zero for government orchestrated killings estimated at several hundred casualties a day now, that has been weeks in duration since Arab Spring hit Syria in February. ...
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The New Civil Rights Movement
Beirut: Then and Now as Seen Through the Lens of Jamal Saidi
ABC News (blog)
Today, Jamal works as the chief photographer of Reuters for Lebanon andSyria and is the honorary president of the Lebanese Press Photographers Syndicate, for which he served as president for more than a decade. He currently lives in Beirut with his ...
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ABC News (blog)
Posted by Clint Henderson | November 21, 2011
Fox News (blog)
Violence also spreading in Syria amid the crackdown on protesters there.. Some are now calling it "near civil war." Richard Grenell has an editorial today on the failure of diplomacy in Iran. He will join us live to discuss.
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FDU Poll: Watch Fox News, Be Uninformed
Patch.com
Also, 48% know that the Syrian uprising has thus far been unsuccessful, while 36% say they don't know, and 16% say the Syrians have already toppled their government. But the real finding is that the results depend on what media sources people turn to ...
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Turkish Banks Retreat Most in Month on Antitrust Investigation
BusinessWeek
Stocks in Turkey have retreated along with global markets on concerns about Europe's debt crisis, while the probe into banks and rising tensions with Turkey's neighbor Syriahave “intensified the selling pressure,” according to Ata Doganoglu, ...
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The Dangers of Post-Conflict States
Commentary
This should temper the enthusiasm still remaining in some quarters for cutting deals with North Korea, Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, Russia, and a long list of other supposed “peace partners.” Second, it also highlights the dangers of ...
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Commentary
Martin Rowson on the Arab autumn
The Guardian
As for Syria, we can only hope Assad turns to the scorched earth tactics that caused the Hama massacre in 82. This was rightfully prevented in Libya by last minute action by NATO. Unlike the "Tree of Liberty" western Industry will never quench its ...
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Canada will back West's push on Iran
Globe and Mail
Syria is currently dominating headlines, as the international community grapples with whether and how to prevent the Assad regime from inflicting carnage on its own population. But it's Iran, not Syria, that worries the Harper government the most. ...
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Globe and Mail
Moderate Islamist set to be Tunisian PM
Financial Times
Both international observers and Arabs are closely watching Tunisia's course, which could serve as a template for other countries, including Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen. Its elections last month were hailed worldwide as among the most transparent and ...
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Keeping One Frigate in the Mediterranean Signals Canada's “Leadership Role on ...
Ottawa Citizen (blog)
While MacKay said the frigates' primary responsibility will be to locate and board vessels suspected of being linked to terrorism, he said they will be available in the event the situation in Syria spirals further out of control. ...
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CIA Outsmarted by Hezbollah: Is This the Cost of Counterterrorism?
The Atlantic
Though the CIA base there aggressively tracks Hezbollah, it is also a headquarters for monitoring and often countering Syria and Iran. How was the CIA outmaneuvered by one of its oldest foes in one of its proudest outposts? CIA sources that spoke to ...
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A day at the Doctor's
NOW LEBANON
Furthermore, counteracting resentment of Hezbollah, Christian concerns over the “Saudification” of Lebanon, instability in neighboring Syria and the possibility that the Arab Spring will empower Sunnis in the Arab world tend to benefit the FPM ...
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NOW LEBANON
Time for a change
Salt Lake Tribune
Syria? Kuwait? A caucus and convention system that by law places all the nominating authority, and by default all the electoral decision-making, in the hands of a very few people has produced a government that cannot truly be called lower-case “d” ...
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NEW: Brown Scores Four Students for Rhodes Scholarships
GoLocalProv
She now lives near Damascus, Syria, where she is doing research onSyria's marginalized Bedouin community. She is an accomplished photographer with many public exhibitions and has published over 40 articles and photographs. At Oxford, Emma plans to do ...
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GoLocalProv
Bahrain Nervously Awaits Revolt Report's Findings
The Ledger
The question not only for Bahrain but for other Arab countries in tumult — like Egypt andSyria — is whether reconciliation can stop an unraveling spreading across the region. The answer here may be in the hands of an Egyptian-American law professor ...
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'CIA, MI6 and Mossad: Together against Syria' — RT
By RT
The West is doing its best to destabilize the situation in Syria, author and journalist Webster Tarpley told RT. According to him, civilians have to deal with death squads and blind terrorism, which is typical of the CIA.
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Hague to meet Syrian opposition « News Hub Today
By NewsHubToday
The UK is stepping up its contacts with Syrian opposition forces, but ministers insist they are not about to recognise them as its legitimate government. Foreign Secretary William Hague will meet opposition representatives in London on ...
News Hub Today
EA WorldView - Home - Bahrain, Syria (and Beyond) LiveBlog: "The ...
By Scott Lucas
Now Lebanon, citing Al Jazeera Arabic, reports that 14 people have been killed acrossSyria today. 1646 GMT: We've seen a few videos like this one, people cueing up on foot to get gasoline for vehicles, stoves, and generators. This one ...
EA WorldView
Arab League stands by monitors for Syria - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Syria faced renewed international pressure on Sunday as the Arab League said it would meet this week to consider new moves against the country, the day after a deadline expired for the government to end a crackdown on protesters and ...
Today's Tribune-Review
Stirring Syria: West 'provocation' slammed | Ethiopian Review
By Russia Today
Posted on November 21, 2011 by Russia Today · Stirring Syria: West 'provocation' slammed. Moscow has accused western powers of stirring up tensions in the Arab world by calling for the overthrow of the Syrian regime. Russia says calls ...
Ethiopian Review
Top Developments in the Arab Spring Today | Informed Comment
By Juan
Top Developments in the Arab Spring Today. Posted on 11/21/2011 ... In Syria, two rockets slammed into Baath Party buildings in Damascus on Sunday, the first time the embryonic guerrilla resistance has hit inside the capital. . Security forces ...
Informed Comment
Syria 21-11-2011 « Local coordination committees of Syria
By abeer
Number of martyrs today in Syria rose to 13, 12 martyrs from Homs and a martyr from Hama, Karnaz. Idlib Intensive shooting along with heavy security deployment loaded with heavy weapons in the area of Al-Mal'ab square. Darkoush ...
Local coordination committees of Syria
League rejects Syrian stand, FMs to meet - The Gulf Today
CAIRO: Arab foreign ministers are to hold crisis talks in Cairo on Thursday to discuss developments in Syria, Arab League deputy secretary general Ahmed Bin Hilli told reporters on Sunday. “The Arab League council will hold an extraordinary ...
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Vienna - Syria Blasts Israel -- VosIzNeias.com
By admin
Today at 09:53 AM YUDA20 Says: Report as Inappropriate. We can trust Israel that they will use their Atomic weapons responsibly because the IDF as opposed to the Syrianmilitary does not go around killing and torturing their own citizens. ...
Vos Iz Neias (Yiddish: What's News?)
The “Free Syrian Army” Challenges Assad « Jerusalem Center Blog
By Jacques Neriah
The innovation today is that dissident Syrian officers have organized into a structure – the FSA – which is fighting the regime openly. The FSA recently formed an interim military council headed by dissident Col. Riyad al-Ass'ad and nine other ...
Jerusalem Center Blog
Syria Today | 15 November 2011
Daily News Brief 15 November 2011Syrian government welcomes outside observers to an emergency summit as regional and international pressure intensifies ...
www.syria-today.com/index.../17006-15-november-2011
Syria Today 19-11-2011 « Local coordination committees of Syria
Syria Today 19-11-2011. Home / News / Current Page. LCC The number of martyrs so far today has reached 24, 10 in Homs 5 of them from Qasir, 9 in the town ...
www.lccsyria.org/2621
Today In Syria - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
Steve Walt is pessimistic that the Arab League will ever help out, but Scott Lucas compiles a great deal of evidence from today that Syrians - even in Bab Amro ...
andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/.../today-in-syria-1.ht...
Pro-Assad crowd attacks Saudi Embassy in Syria - TODAY News ...
Crowds armed with sticks and knives attack the Saudi Embassy in Damascus and French and Turkish consulates in Latakia on Saturday after the Arab League ...
today.msnbc.msn.com/.../pro-assad-crowd-attacks-saudi-emba...
Eight-year-old killed in fresh Syrian violence as Arab states offer ...
An eight-year-old girl is believed to be among 15 killed in Syria today amid fresh violence. The deaths - and those of six soldiers - occurred in fighting in Homs, ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Eight-year-old-killed-fresh-Syrian-vi...
Obama applauds Syria suspension by Arab League - USA Today
President Obama applauded the Arab League's decision today to suspend Syria and consider sanctions against Bashar Assad's government.
content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/.../1
200 marches in Syria today and 16 people killed by the gunfire of ...
200 marches in Syria today and 16 people killed by the gunfire of security forces: Syrian activists #alarabiya #Syria #Assad.
www.breakingnews.com/.../200-marches-in-syria-today-and-1...
Syrian opposition leaders meeting today in Livonia to help ...
Syrian-Americans from across North America who oppose Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad are meeting in Livonia today to discuss ways to remove him from ...
www.freep.com/.../Syrian-opposition-leaders-meeting-today-L...
Hulu - NBC TODAY Show: Clinton Discusses Myanmar, Syria, 2012 ...
Video description: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sits down with NBC's Chuck Todd to discuss diplomacy in Myanmar and Syria, two nations with fledgling ...
www.hulu.com/.../nbc-today-show-clinton-discusses-myanmar...
BBC News - Today - Syria under pressure from 'new international ...
Salman Shaikh, of the Brookings Institution, predicts that Syria will be referred to the UN Security Council.
www.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid.../9638811.stm
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