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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China has offered to contribute troops to the new UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, where Islamist jihadists controlled the country’s north until French-led troops launched an offensive in January to oust them, a UN official said on Thursday. Andre-Michel Essoungou, a spokesman for the UN peacekeeping department, said that it “has received pledges and offers of contributions from a number of countries from around the world, including China.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are under guard in hospitals after being shot and arrested by police following the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee Rigby on Wednesday in broad daylight. They have not yet been charged. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A roadside bomb killed 11 security personnel and two civilians on Thursday in southwestern Pakistan where separatist rebels have for decades been battling to control the region’s natural gas and other resources. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria’s main opposition group gathers on Thursday for a landmark conference in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss peace talks with the regime, as rebels on the ground suffer a massive army onslaught. The National Coalition’s fresh round of talks is set to run for three days. It is the opposition group’s first meeting since the United States and Russia announced a peace initiative dubbed Geneva 2 to end the two-year conflict that has killed more than 90,000 people. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria’s main opposition group is urging rebels to come from around the country to reinforce Qusair, a western town under attack by Syrian troops and members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group. George Sabra, the acting chief of the Syrian National Coalition, says in a statement that “forces from outside Syria” aim to destroy Qusair and that rebels should “rescue” it. Government troops were trying for a fourth day Wednesday to wrest control of Qusair from rebels. The town lies near the Lebanese border on land corridor linking the capital Damascus with the Mediterranean coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Josh Rogin, on May 22nd, 2013 Josh Rogin reports on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s approval of a bill to arm the rebels.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian troops backed by Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Sunday entered Qusayr, a strategic rebel stronghold linking Damascus to the coast, a day after President Bashar al-Assad insisted he would not step aside. The advance came as Assad’s opponents warned his regime’s “barbaric and destructive” assault on Qusayr could torpedo US-Russian attempts to organise a conference on ending more than two years of bloodshed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 21-year-old university student killed in a home invasion east of New York was mistakenly shot in the head by an officer who fired eight times at an armed suspect who was holding a gun to the student’s head and then pointed it at him. Seven of the bullets hit the man, who was also killed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and Russia have proposed could settle a deadly conflict that has convulsed the country for two years. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia has shipped advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, US officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A clan whose chiefs are on trial for the Philippines’ worst political massacre secured big wins in local elections this week, results showed on Friday, deepening fears that justice may never be served. Leaders of the Ampatuan family and their gunmen are accused of massacring 58 people, including 32 journalists, in the southern province of Maguindanao more than three years ago in a bid to quash a rival’s challenge to become governor. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Thein Sein’s historic invitation to the White House is an endorsement of “Myanmar’s Spring” and a further sign that the former pariah’s reforms are irreversible, a senior Myanmar official said. Washington will welcome the former general on Monday in a hugely symbolic reward for sweeping changes since he took power two years ago. He will be the first leader of the former military-ruled nation to visit since 1966. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT, on May 17th, 2013 Antiship cruise missiles could make it more difficult for the United States and its allies to impose a naval embargo, establish a no-fly zone or carry out airstrikes in support of Syria’s rebels.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Armed men broke into a UN outpost in a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria and abducted three UN military observers, the UN peacekeeping chief said on Thursday. Herve Ladsous said that the unarmed observers were held for about five hours and released unharmed on Wednesday morning. It was the third abduction of UN peacekeepers in the tense region since March and underlined again their vulnerability in the spillover of the conflict in Syria, which is now in its third year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013
A total of 130 MPs have backed an amendment to the Queen’s Speech “expressing regret” that plans for an EU referendum were not included in the government’s plans for the year ahead.
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian rebel authorities have vowed to punish a fighter who was shown in a gruesome video apparently cutting out and eating the internal organs of a government soldier. The incident has highlighted war crimes allegations against the opposition and put the rebel leadership and its backers on the defensive. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Free Syrian Army pledged on Wednesday to punish atrocities amid outrage over a video showing the mutilation of a corpse, as the regime ruled out discussing President Bashar al-Assad’s departure in negotiations. The mainstream rebel group made the statement after a gruesome video of an alleged rebel fighter cutting out and apparently eating the organs of a regime soldier emerged online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Mike Giglio, on May 15th, 2013 Suspicion between rebel groups in Syria raises the specter of further violence if Assad falls—and makes the idea of intervention fraught and complex. Mike Giglio reports.
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria is willing to carry out a joint investigation with Turkey into deadly attacks in the border town of Reyhanli that Ankara has accused Damascus of masterminding, a Syrian minister said on Tuesday. “If the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls for a joint, transparent investigation by the two countries, we have no objection, in order to find the truth,” Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said. “The truth must be announced to the Syrian and Turkish people,” he was quoted as saying by state media. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was leading in the vote-count for mayor of Manila on Tuesday in what could be his first elected post since he was ousted in a 2001 revolt on corruption charges. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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UN says China offers peacekeepers for Mali
<!– google_ad_section_start –> China has offered to contribute troops to the new UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, where Islamist jihadists controlled the country’s north until French-led troops launched an offensive in January to oust them, a UN official said on Thursday. Andre-Michel Essoungou, a spokesman for the UN peacekeeping department, said that it “has received pledges and offers of contributions from a number of countries from around the world, including China.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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