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WRAPUP 3-U.S., Russia push for rapid talks to end Syria carnage
Reuters* US, Russia bury differences to push for Syria peace talks * Not clear warring parties will readily agree to negotiate * Threat of conflict spilling over has alarmed world powers * Kerry says without deal Syria could simply break apart By Arshad...Tags: Moscow (Russia), Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Political Dissent, Google Inc.
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WRAPUP 4-U.S., Russia seek new Syria peace talks; rebels sceptical
Reuters(Adds further Syrian opposition comment) * US, Russia bury differences to push for Syria peace talks * Not clear warring parties will readily agree to negotiate * Threat of conflict spilling over has alarmed world powers * Kerry says without deal...Tags: Moscow (Russia), Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Conflicts, Google Inc.
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Obama defends approach to determining if Syria used chemical arms
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended his deliberate approach to determining whether Syria used chemical weapons and pointed to the fates of Osama bin Laden and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as evidence that "we...Tags: Barack Obama, Muammar Gaddafi, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Washington, DC
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Syrian intervention: Some questions
WASHINGTON -- For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions: Is human suffering the reason for the United States to act? That is the noblest and most altruistic of motives, and the estimated 70,...
Tags: War in Afghanistan (2001-present), Wars and Interventions, United Nations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bashar Assad
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U.N.'s Carla del Ponte says Syrian rebels may have used sarin
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.BEIRUT — A leading member of a United Nations investigatory commission says there are “strong concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof” that Syrian rebels have used the nerve agent sarin. Carla del Ponte, a former...Tags: BBC, Jay Carney, Wars and Interventions, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), United Nations
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WRAPUP 1-US, Russia push for rapid talks to end Syria carnage
Reuters* US, Russia bury differences to push for Syria peace talks * Not clear warring parties will readily agree to negotiate * Threat of conflict spilling over has alarmed world powers * Kerry says without deal Syria could simply break apart By Thomas...Tags: Moscow (Russia), Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Political Dissent, Israel
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Obama's red line on Syria gets squiggly
The hawks are squawking. Congressional conservatives and the right-wing media are blasting President Barack Obama for going soft on the Syrians. The president insists there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is...
Tags: Chuck Hagel, John McCain, Religion and Belief, Pulitzer Prize Awards, George W. Bush
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UN distances itself from claim that Syrian rebels used nerve gas
ReutersGENEVA, May 6 (Reuters) - U.N. war crimes investigators have reached no conclusions on whether any side in the Syrian war has used chemical weapons, the inquiry commission said on Monday, playing down a suggestion from one of the team that rebel forces...Tags: Ban Ki-moon, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bashar Assad, International Law
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White House says skeptical Syrian rebels used chemical weapons
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - The White House is "highly skeptical" of suggestions that Syrian rebels used chemical weapons, spokesman Jay Carney said on Monday in response to comments by a U.N investigator that rebel forces have used the nerve agent,...Tags: Government, National Government, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bashar Assad
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WRAPUP 2-Israel says "no winds of war" despite Syria air strikes
Reuters(Adds strikes detail, chemical arms comments, Golan Heights mortar) * After air strikes, Israel seeks to ease tension with Syria * China urges restraint during Israeli PM's visit * Russia says chance of foreign intervention growing * Oil price rises...Tags: Government, Moscow (Russia), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Energy Saving, Beijing (China)
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WRAPUP 3-Israel says 'no winds of war' despite Syria air strikes
Reuters(Adds U.S. senator introducing bill to arm Syrian rebels, paragraphs 26-28) * After strikes, Israel seeks to ease tension with Syria * China urges restraint during Israeli PM's visit * Russia says chance of foreign intervention growing * Oil price...Tags: Moscow (Russia), Bob Menendez, Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Energy Saving
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Donnelly talks Syrian, Afghan wars
South Bend TribuneReports that rebel fighters in Syria may have used chemical weapons in their fight against the regime there are damaging if true, U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly said today. But he cautioned against jumping to conclusions until all of the facts are in. "If...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda, Bashar Assad
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