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U.N. chief believes al Qaeda behind Syria car bombs

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he believed al Qaeda was responsible for two suicide car bombs that killed at least 55 people in Syria a week ago and that the death toll in the country’s 14-month conflict was now at least 10,000. “A few days ago there was a huge, serious, massive terrorist attack. I believe that there must be al Qaeda behind it. This has created again very serious problems,” Ban told a youth event at U.N. headquarters in New York. …

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Syria’s Assad: Nations that sow chaos will suffer

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday that countries trying to “sow chaos” in Syria could be infected with it themselves, an apparent warning to Arab Gulf nations that back the insurgency aimed at forcing him from power. Assad’s remarks, to a Russian TV channel, came after U.N. staff monitoring an increasingly shaky ceasefire were caught up in an attack that killed at least 21 people, and had to spend a night with rebel forces. …

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New Syria-linked clashes in Lebanon’s Tripoli

One person was killed and seven others were wounded in fresh clashes on Sunday in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli between factions supporting and opposed to the revolt in neighbouring Syria, security sources said.

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UN condemns Syria bomb attacks after 55 killed

The UN Security Council condemned the deadliest bomb attacks of Syria’s 14-month uprising, urging all sides to stick to an international peace plan after at least 55 people were killed.

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UN chief warns Syria crisis is getting worse

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday the crisis in Syria is getting worse and claiming more lives every day even though President Bashar Assad’s government insists it is withdrawing troops ahead of a U.N. deadline to end the violence.

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Gaza man dies as thousands protest against Israel

A Palestinian protester in Gaza died Friday from Israeli army gunfire, a health official said, as thousands in the Palestinian territories, Israel and neighboring countries participated in an annual protest against Israeli land policy.

Heavy fighting in Syrian capital, residents say

AMMAN (Reuters) – A heavy firefight broke out on Monday between Free Syrian Army rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in a main district of the Syrian capital Damascus that is home to several security installations, witnesses said. They said the sound of heavy machinegun fire and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) echoed through the heavily guarded al-Mezze district. There was no immediate word on casualties but residents said by telephone the fighting was intense. “There is fighting near Hamada supermarket and the sound of explosions there and elsewhere in the neighborhood. …

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Annan warns of Syria escalation, says talks continue

GENEVA (Reuters) – Kofi Annan, special envoy on Syria for the United Nations and the Arab League, said on Friday the situation in the country needed to be handled carefully to avoid an escalation that would destabilize the region. Annan said he had urged the U.N. Security Council to speak with “one voice” to bring a halt to the violence, gain unimpeded access for aid workers and launch a political process leading to a democratic Syria. He gave no details after his briefing of the Security Council by video link from his Geneva office. …

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New York Times correspondent Shadid dies in Syria (AP)

AP – New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose dispatches captured untold stories from Baghdad under “shock and awe” bombing to Libya wracked by civil war, has died of an apparent asthma attack in Syria while reporting on the uprising against its president.

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Syrian forces shell Homs; truce in mountain town (Reuters)

Reuters – Syrian forces bombarded districts of the city of Homs on Saturday in their drive to crush a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, whose ally Russia said it would not support an Arab peace plan circulating at the United Nations.

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U.N. chief believes al Qaeda behind Syria car bombs

Syria’s Assad: Nations that sow chaos will suffer

New Syria-linked clashes in Lebanon’s Tripoli

UN condemns Syria bomb attacks after 55 killed

UN chief warns Syria crisis is getting worse

Gaza man dies as thousands protest against Israel

Heavy fighting in Syrian capital, residents say

Annan warns of Syria escalation, says talks continue

New York Times correspondent Shadid dies in Syria (AP)

Syrian forces shell Homs; truce in mountain town (Reuters)

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