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Russia's Lavrov seeks peace in Syria as forces bombard Homs |
Reuters
Assad endorsed that plan, with no reference to a later version that formed the basis of the failed UN resolution. It called on Assad to empower a deputy to negotiate with his opponents as a step toward elections and political transition. "Syria from ...
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Assad Asks Russia to Broker Syria Opposition Talks, Lavrov Says
BusinessWeek
“Today we received confirmation of the Syrian president's readiness to cooperate on this.” Lavrov and the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, Mikhail Fradkov, met Assad three days after Russia and China drew condemnation for vetoing a UN ...
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The UN must find a Goldstone for Syria
Haaretz (blog)
The UN needs to send a direct message to Bashar Assad: A regime which resorts to war crimes will have to answer for them. By Bradley Burston Tags: Syria Bashar Assad UNGoldstone Report It is one of the few points of agreement between people who are ...
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Haaretz (blog)
Showdown in Syria: All roads lead to Tehran
RT
In recent days, there has been horrific violence in the Syrian city of Homs, as more than 200 people have died in gunfights and bombings. For the Western mainstream media, all the blame lies with Bashar al-Assad's government, with President Obama...
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RT
UN chief Ban 'appalled' by Syrian assault on Homs
Jerusalem Post
The sustained assault on several districts of Homs, which has become a center of armed opposition to President Bashar Assad, killed at least 50 people on Monday, according to the Syrian National Council opposition group. The statement issued by Ban's ...
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US facing headaches on two fronts
ABC Online
The Obama administration has been deeply frustrated by the failure to push through a resolution in the United Nations, calling for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down. Today, the US ambassador to the UNSusan Rice had harsh criticism for ...
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Russia denies threatening Qatar in UN talks
The Associated Press
31 to urge the UN to act. The resolution, aimed at ending the Syriangovernment's suppression of a civilian uprising, backed an Arab League plan that calls for President Bashar Assad to step aside. Some 5400 people have been killed in 11 months of ...
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Brazil Slowly Moves Towards Condemning Syria Violence
International Business Times
More importantly, among the BRIC nations – Brazil, Russia, India and China --- Brazil is seemingly breaking off with Moscow and Beijing, which over the weekend vetoes a UN resolution condemning the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
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International Business Times
Syria's bloody turning point
Salon
... just hours before Russia and China vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the government of President Bashar al-Assad, analysts warn the onslaught in Syria marks a new chapter in which further bloodshed appears inevitable.
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18+ Baba Amr - Assad Rocket Barrage Intensifies - Day 2 - Ethnic Cleansing of ...
YouTube
February 7, 2012 + Adults Only - Warning - Contains Graphic Images - Not for Shock - Documentary Evidence of Crimes Against Humanity Committed By Syria Dictator Bashar Assad in Baba Amr in Homs City on February 7, 2012 ش. The Baathist Army of Dictator ...
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South Africa UN vote favors Syrian action
Alaska Dispatch
Russia and China's joint veto of a United Nations resolution urging Syrianleader Bashar al-Assad to step down has kicked up a firestorm of criticism from the West and from human rights activists. Russia and China claim their votes were aimed at ...
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R2P in Crisis Following UN Syria Vote
YouTube
The UN Security Council's failure to pass a proposed resolution on Syriahas put the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine "in major crisis," argues Stewart Patrick, director of CFR's International Institutions and Global Governance program.
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Jazeera Blames Syria for Disrupting TV News Channel Broadcasting
BusinessWeek
The operator of the Hot Bird satellite that transmits the TV station todayconfirmed the source of the recent disruption. “Geo-localization reports indicate that recent jamming of Al Jazeera satellite signals emanates fromSyria,” Eutelsat ...
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Lebanese backing for Syrian brothers
gulfnews.com
Attempts by the Syrian opposition to unseat President Bashar AlAssad and his cronies have divided Lebanon. The majority of Lebanese broadly sympathise with anti-regime demonstrators. The ruling pro-Syrian minority is strongly backing the Syrian ...
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gulfnews.com
PM in China to talk trade
Toronto Sun
While here, Harper expected to express his disappointment in China's decision to veto a weekend UN Security Council resolution to condemnSyria's Bashar al-Assad. Harper is the first G8 leader to meet the senior Chinese leadership since the weekend ...
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The World Watches Syria's Uprising on YouTube
Mashable
Meanwhile, Syrians who witness confrontations between government forces and protesters are uploading new videos every day. On Saturday, Russia and China vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have called for Assad to step down.
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With UN's Failure to Curb Syria Crack-Down, Has the Security Council Become a ...
PolicyMic
It is estimated that thousands have been killed by the Assadregime in Syria. A question that we must begin to ask: How many deaths must there be before the UN has a responsibility to act? At the UN World Summit in 2005, member states made an ...
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PolicyMic
US closes Syrian embassy as diplomacy collapses
Albany Times Union
The commander of a force of rebel Syrian soldiers says they have no choice now but to fight to free the country of President Bashar Assad's regime after Russia and China vetoed a UN resolution aimed at resolving the crisis. EDITORIAL USE ONLY (SANA ...
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Sacking heads of State via UN
Pakistan Observer
THE latest bid by the United States to topple the Government of SyrianPresident Bashar al-Asad has once again confirmed beyond an iota of doubt that the UN has become an extension of the US Government in furthering its agenda for different regions and ...
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German police arrest two suspected Syrian spies
Reuters
| BERLIN (Reuters) - German police arrested two men Tuesday suspected of spying on Syrian opposition activists for President Bashar al-Assad'sintelligence services, prosecutors said. The two men, a 47-year-old with German and Lebanese citizenship ...
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Leading article: The world must not abandon Syrians now
The Independent
Russia and China, by vetoing an Arab League-inspired UN resolution onSyria, have freed President Assad from any restraint. Indeed, the violence in Homs in recent days – with fears of a full-scale military assault to come – is a direct result of their ...
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KMPH FOX 26 | Central San Joaquin Valley News SourceAP Top News at 12:06 pm...
KMPH Fox 26
BEIRUT (AP) - Russia's foreign minister urged Syrian President BasharAssad to move ahead with reforms Tuesday as a way to resolve Syria'scrisis, as a cheering crowd of thousands waving Russian flags welcomed the diplomat, praising his country for ...
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As order breaks down in Syria, its Christians suffer the consequences
Left Foot Forward
As Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov today meets with President Bashar al-Assad in Damascas, the estimated 2.5 million Christians in Syria live in fear, stuck between a rock and a hard place. As the news of Syrians being slaughtered continues at ...
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Left Foot Forward
Syria; Somalia; World Youth Report; Myanmar; and more
UN Dispatch
Syria: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the escalating violence in Syria today, calling on President Bashar al-Assad's Government to immediately cease all hostilities against the country's civilian population. He also voiced deep regret ...
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Scepticism over Syria action claim
ChronicleLive
The Government has given a sceptical response to claims that Syrianpresident Bashar Assad is ready to end bloodshed and stage a referendum on a new constitution. During a visit to Damascus, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said he had received ...
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US, UK Targeting Syria: Revisiting 1957 Attack Plans?
Dissident Voice
For anyone in two minds about what is really going on in Syria, and whether President Assad, hailed a decade ago as “A Modern Day Attaturk”, has become the latest megalomaniacal despot to whose people a US-led posse of nations must deliver “freedom” ...
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Syrian Instability: How Would Rest of World Respond?
PBS NewsHour
Citing security woes amid Syria's escalating crackdown, American and British diplomats have left Damascus. Ray Suarez discusses other countries' diplomatic and military options and the mounting pressure onAssad's regime with the University of ...
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Updated; Russia Seeks to Prod Syria's Assad After Blocking UN ...
By editor
YamaTough Hacker Demanded $50000 for not releasing Stolen Symantec Source Code | The Hacker News (THN) · ANALYSIS, ARCHIVE, REGION, STRATEGY ... Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Mikhail Fradkov, will meet Assad today, three days after Russia and China drew condemnation for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that backed an Arab League plan for a political transition in Syria. “We've supported and continue to ...
TURKISH NEWS WIRES STRATEGY ANALYSIS...
Assad ready for talks, 'fully commits' to end violence - Lavrov — RT
By RT
Syria's President Assad has agreed to talks with the opposition and will follow the Arab League's roadmap, increasing the number of observers in the country, even in the most hostile areas in Syria. ... News · Indexes and rates · Top Russian Companies · Sport · Football · Hockey ... While officials in Washington tirelessly admonish Russia and China for blocking another resolution on Syria, Rick Rozoff of the Stop NATO group tells RT that the UNhas been hijacked by the US and NATO.
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US Closes Syria Embassy, Says UN Veto Emboldens Assad ...
By VOA
The United States has closed its embassy in Syria, warning that President Bashar al-Assad is increasing his campaign of violence against opponents following the Russian and Chinese veto of U.N. action against his government. After more ...
Ethiopian Review
While Gunfire Echoes Inside Syria, A Cry For Help From A City ...
By KOSU News
With heavy machine gun fire in the background as he spoke from the Baba Amr section of Homs, Syrian citizen journalist and blogger Omar Shakir told Morning Edition co-host Renee Montagne earlier today that “we are asking for [an] SOS” and ... Over the weekend, Russia and China blocked a draft resolution from the U.N. Security Council that would have condemned theAssad regime for the killing of Syrians in the past year and would have urged the Syrian president to step aside.
KOSU Radio
UN chief Ban 'appalled' by Syrian onslaught on Homs - Stabroek News
By Stabroek staff
Washington said it was pulling all of its remaining diplomats out of Syria just two days after Western countries failed to secure a UN Security Council resolution that would have backed an Arab League call for Assad to leave power. Britain also ...
Stabroek News
War News Updates: Civil War In Syria -- News Updates February 7 ...
By War News Updates Editor
Civil War In Syria -- News Updates February 7, 2012. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Syria's President Bashar al-Assad meet in Damascus Photo: REUTERS/SANA. Russia Says Assad Still Wants Dialogue; Shelling Continues As ...
War News Updates
Syria to call referendum; West, Gulf recall envoys | Al Akhbar English
By Antoun
"President Assad informed [me] that he will meet in the coming days with the commission that prepared a draft of the new constitution," the Russian newsagency quoted Lavrov as saying, who faces protests against his rule. "The work is finished, and ... Moscow and Beijing oppose foreign military intervention in Syria, or moves to impose regime change, citing NATO exploitation of a UN resolution last year on Libya that ultimately led to the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Lavrov's visit was ...
Al Akhbar English
BBC News - UN Syria text drops call for Assad power handover
Diplomats at the UN Security Council drop reference to a call for Syria's ...As of today there are no restrictions on the delivery of weapons and we must fulfil our ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16848356
Syria's opposition calls on UN to denounce Assad – video | World ...
The opposition Syrian National Council calls on theUnited Nations security council to vote on ...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/.../syria-opposition-un-assad-video
Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria
UN Security Council members vote on a draft resolution backing an Arab League call for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, which was later vetoed by ...
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-02-03/un.../1
Russia Faces Onslaught at UN to Back Ouster of Assad in Syria
Russia Faces Onslaught at UN to Back Ouster of Assad in Syria ... to mount a rare diplomatic assault on Russia today at the United Nations, seeking to overcome ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../russia-faces-pressure-to-back-ouster-...
Russia, China veto U.N. plan for Syria - TODAY News - TODAY.com
Russia and China vetoed on Saturday a U.N. resolution that backed an Arab plan calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to quit, stalling global efforts to ...
today.msnbc.msn.com/id/.../russia-china-veto-un-plan-syria/
International News: Russia, China veto U.N. resolution on Syria's ...
Russia, China veto U.N. resolution on Syria's Assad. Sunday, February 5, 2012. By ANITA SNOW ~ The Associated Press. (Photo). Portuguese representative ...
www.semissourian.com/story/1812389.html
Arab League, European Nations Push to End Assad's Rule | News ...
The Arab League says the withdrawal of monitors from Gulf Arab states will not hinder its work in Syria as France, Britain and Germany joined efforts at the ...
www.voanews.com/.../Russia-Opposes-UN-Sanctions-on-Syria...
Syria: Russia And China Veto UN Resolution - Sky News
A UN Security Council resolution over ongoing violence in Syria has been ...The reality is that Russia and China have today taken a choice to turn their backs on ... An Arab League plan has called for President Bashar Assad to stand down ...
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16162909
Syria resolution text agreed - Russia's UN envoy — RT
Go to main page News Syria resolution text agreed - Russia's UN envoy ... for a UN ...
rt.com/news/syria-united-nations-russia-377/
Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria - News-Sentinel.com
Today's Daily Deal ... UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council failed again Saturday to take decisive action to stop the ... members continues to deliver weapons to Assad," she added, referring to Russia, a major arms supplier for Syria.
www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/...
Syria: UN veto gives Assad licence to kill - opposition - Topix
Local News: Syria ... Syria: UN veto gives Assad licence to kill - opposition... product of today's, Pro-Chinese, Pro-Assad, Pro-Hamas, Pro-Hitler and Nazi Cyber ...
www.topix.net/forum/world/syria/TLKHN604TE3F04CJG
  
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