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  • Foreign policy impotence gripping U.S. Foreign policy impotence gripping U.S.

    In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are palpable in both language and ...

  • UN agency calls on Syrias neighbours to keep borders open for refugees UN agency calls on Syrias neighbours to keep borders open for refugees

    24 May 2013 150 The United Nations refugee agency today called on countries around Syria to keep their borders open for refugees, while also stressing the need for "urgent and robust" international support for host countries and aid agencies. There are already over 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). ...

  • Row on arming Syria rebels divides EU

    The 27 EU nations, which have split into three groups over the question of whether to arm Syrian rebels, must agree a joint position by ...

  • Lebanon Hezbollah must not spark sectarian conflict

    Daily Star reported him saying in reference to Hezbollah fighting in neighboring Syria. Suleimans remarks came following a major assault by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces on a rebel held town over the past week, which has drawn in fighters from Assad's Shi'ite allies Hezbollah, justifying fears that the conflict would cross borders at the heart of the Middle ...

  • Suicide bomber kills 7 in northern Syria

    A total of seven Syrian soldiers were killed and 10 others wounded Friday when a suicide car bomber rammed his booby-trapped vehicle at a military post in the northwestern province of Idlib, the pro-government Sham FM ...

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Elizabethtown

Elizabethtown

Despite all his best intentions and last-minute editing, Cameron Crowes free-flow romanticism may have finally gotten the better of him in Elizabethtown. A semi-autobiographical story about a young man returning to a family he doesnt know, it is sweet an ... ...

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  • Syria opposition unity take face spectre of collapse

    ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrian opposition talks aimed at presenting a coherent front at an international peace conference to end the civil war faced the prospect of collapse after President Bashar al-Assad's foes failed to cut an internal deal, opposition sources said on ...

  • Syrian Conflict May Destabilize Lebanon - US

    WASHINGTON, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - The US Department of State said on Friday that the latest deadly clashes in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli "constitute a stark reminder" that the conflict in Syria threatens Lebanon’s stability. "The latest clashes in the northern city of Tripoli, in which at least 23 people have been killed, constitute a stark reminder that the ...

  • Fierce fighting between Alawites and Sunnis in Tripoli Lebanon brings Syrian war home

    Syria Street - an aptly named thoroughfare that divides Tripoli's two warring neighbourhoods of Bab el-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen - whence came a single sniper's round."It hit me in the buttock and the side but I kept driving to safety, 200 metres and the pain was terrible, but I made it to a shop doorway where I collapsed." The bullet came from Jabal Mohsen, the Alawite ...

  • Qatar drops bid to take UN agency from Montreal

    When Qatar made a sudden move to take the headquarters of a UN agency from Montreal, Canada launched into a no-delay, no-quarter campaign to beat it back. On Thursday, Qatar cried uncle and called Ottawa to say it was withdrawing its bid to win the seat of the International Civil Aviation ...

  • New Computer Attacks Come From Iran Officials Say

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