Russia’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that Syria’s vice president would seek open talks with the rebels, even as regime forces were reported to be shelling the city of Homs.

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As Russia Pushes Diplomacy, Syrian Forces Are Said to Pound Homs

Scientists said Wednesday they had reached the waters of a lake that has been sealed off for millions of years.

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Russian Scientists Bore Into Ancient Antarctic Lake

Russia says Assad wants to end violence.

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U.S. Reviews Military Options

DAMASCUS, Syria —Russia’s top diplomat said Tuesday that a Syrian commission has prepared a new constitution, to be voted on in a referendum, and added that President Bashar al-Assad is ready for a “dialogue” with opposition groups after months of a harsh and bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters. Read full article > >

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Russia says Assad still wants dialogue; shelling continues as more countries recall ambassadors

DAMASCUS, Syria —Russia’s top diplomat said Tuesday that a Syrian commission has prepared a new constitution, to be voted on in a referendum, and added that President Bashar al-Assad is ready for a “dialogue” with opposition groups after months of a harsh and bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters. Read full article > >

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Syria shells Homs; Russian diplomat meets Assad as France, Italy recall ambassadors

An assault by the Syrian army on the restive city of Homs enters its fourth day as Russia’s foreign minister is due in Damascus for talks.

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Syria assault enters fourth day

Russian scientists have drilled into the vast, dark and never-before-touched Lake Vostok 2.2 miles below the surface of Antarctica, according to a source quoted Monday by Ria Novosti, a state-run Russian news agency. Read full article > >

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Russians drill into previously untouched Lake Vostok below Antarctic glacier

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague accuses China and Russia of “betraying the Syrian people” by vetoing a UN resolution condemning violence there.

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Syria veto was ‘betrayal’ – Hague

Russian scientists are attempting to beat US and British rivals to be first to drill into an Antarctic sub-glacial lake.

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Race to drill into Antarctic lake

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton deplores as a ‘travesty’ Russia and China’s veto of a UN resolution condemning Syria’s violent crackdown on protesters.

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US anger at Syria veto ‘travesty’

Antigovernment protesters managed to gather a third huge crowd in the center of the Russian capital, undeterred by arctic cold.

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Protesters Throng Frozen Moscow in Anti-Putin March

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Tens of thousands of people march in Moscow in protest at Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, while his supporters hold a rally elsewhere in Russia’s capital.

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Thousands in rival Moscow marches

Diplomats at the UN Security Council drop reference to a call for Syria’s president to hand over power in their draft resolution, apparently to appease Russia.

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UN text drops Assad handover call

Editors seldom earn much notice outside the world of publishing. Edward Garnett fostered the careers of Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, but, I suspect, far more people remember his wife, Constance Garnett, the first great translator of Chekhov, Dostoevsky and many other Russian writers. In this country, only one editor ever appears as a “Jeopardy!” answer: Maxwell Perkins, who worked with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. Read full article > >

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