Syria’s Assad: ‘No intention of stepping down’
Syria’s President Assad: No intention of stepping down Syria’s President Assad has said he has no intention of stepping down. In his first interview since calls were made for a peace conference to try to resolve the conflict, he said that the West’s efforts would be better focused on trying to stop guns falling [...]
Multiple car bomb attacks hit Iraqi cities An eyewitness in Basra described a tea seller “disappearing” in the blast. Nik Gowing reports At least 26 people have been killed and many others injured in a series of car bomb attacks in central and southern Iraq, officials say. Baghdad was worst hit, with eight explosions [...]
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Syria crisis: Refugee total now more than 1.5m – UNHCR Agencies say they do not have the resources to cope with the number of refugees Continue reading the main story Syria conflict Chemical weapons claims The town hit by ‘chemical attack’ An unwinnable war No easy answers The UN’s refugee agency has said that more [...]
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The New York Times quotes unnamed US officials as saying the missiles could be used to counter any potential future foreign military intervention in Syria. Without confirming details, Russia’s foreign minister said Russian supplies did not break any international rules. It comes amid growing alarm that chemical weapons may be being used in Syria, something [...]
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Funeral prayers echoed across a small Turkish town Sunday after a pair of car bombings that killed dozens of people, an attack that government officials are blaming on Syria. The families of the dead huddled under umbrellas in the town cemetery to lay their loved ones to rest, while others cried in the middle of [...]
Continue reading …Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – It is minutes after a gut-wrenching election loss for Malaysia’s opposition and it has fallen on parliamentarian Rafizi Ramli to address the troops. At an ad hoc press conference in the early hours of Monday on the steps of Pakatan Rakyat’s headquarters, a downcast Ramli spoke in whispered tones to the [...]
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Damascus, Syria (CNN) — A U.N. official says there are strong suspicions that Syrian rebel forces have used the deadly nerve agent sarin gas in the country’s civil war. Carla Del Ponte told an Italian-Swiss TV station that the findings come after interviews with doctors and Syrian victims now in neighboring countries. Del Ponte, the [...]
Continue reading …Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) – A bomb blast killed five U.S. service members in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, U.S. and NATO officials said. It was a roadside explosion in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province that killed them, said Javid Faisal, spokesman for the provincial governor. source CNN
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Internet hacktivist group Anonymous has declared cyberwar on Israel, posting personal data of five thousand Israeli officials online. The group used their Anonpaste.me site to address a message to the Israeli government before linking to the page with names, ID numbers and personal emails of 5,000 officials. The message said: “It has come to our [...]
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has opened a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement by saying his country is not seeking nuclear weapons. Iran hopes the summit will change the balance of international opinion Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has opened a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement by saying his country is not seeking [...]
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