BEIRUT — Growing indications that a deeply divided international community is either unable or unwilling to intervene to halt the violence in Syria are fueling an armed rebellion that risks plunging the country, and perhaps the region, into a wider war. Read full article > >

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In Syria, world inaction fuels armed revolt

BERLIN–European officials remained deeply divided on Saturday about the best way to pay for bailouts for troubled countries, discussing but failing to agree on a proposal to tax financial transactions. Economic officials are huddled in Poland to try to come up with a way to help euro-area countries that are having difficulty repaying their debts. Greece is likely to run out of cash by mid-October if it does not receive billions of euros of bailout money, potentially setting off a financial contagion that could hop from bank to bank and country to country. Read full article > >

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Europeans remain divided on bailouts

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s personal mythology has kept him in power of a tribal, deeply divided society for longer than any other living leader in North Africa or the Middle East.

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