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Canada.com
| 12 months ago
International peace envoy Kofi Annan accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces of atrocities and arbitrary arrests, and said on Saturday he had delivered a blunt message to Assad to act now to implement all points of a peace plan. Annan,...
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Scoop
| 12 months ago
UN-Arab League Envoy Warns of Growing Sectarian Warfare in Syria New York, Jun 2 2012 2:10PM The Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States, Kofi Annan, today warned of the growing sectarian aspect of the crisis in Syria,...
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Mail and Guardian
| 12 months ago
Spectre of an all-out war growing by the day in Syria Kofi Annan has warned that an all-out war looms in Syria, holding President Bashar al-Assad as the first responsible to act to end the conflict. International envoy Kofi Annan on Saturday...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Kofi Annan gave warning on Friday that his peace plan for Syria would not be available "forever" after the massacre of another 12 people was disclosed. Annan, a former United Nations secretary-general, has devised a six-point plan that commands...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
U.N.-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan voiced frustration Friday over the lack of progress in implementing his peace plan to end the violence in Syria following a weekend massacre that killed over 100 people. Wrapping up a two-day visit to Lebanon,...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
The international community must make efforts to stop perpetrators of violence in Syria from acting with impunity, the U.N. human rights chief said Friday...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she looked forward to trying to find a way to work...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Horrified by the Houla massacre, other atrocities and the remorseless daily violence, the outside world is desperately casting around for a way to prevent Syria from sliding inexorably towards a disastrous civil war, and to secure the launching of...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country is not supplying arms to the Syrian government to use against opponents...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Russian arms sales to Syria are of "serious concern" and could lead to civil war.
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
International peace envoy Kofi Annan said on Friday he was "frustrated" over the bloodshed in Syria and urged President Bashar al-Assad to take bold steps to speed up an end to the violence. "Bold action has to be taken by President Assad in Syria to...
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Israel National News
| 12 months ago
According to the report, which was based on a diplomatic source who claims that he was present during the conversation, the conversation between Assad and Annan was very difficult and included mutual threats.
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
The United States, Turkey and Qatar were among members of the Geneva-based council calling for a special session on Syria in an attempt to increase international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad as intense discussions continued between members...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
A Friday peace-plan deadline imposed on the Assad regime by Syria's rebel army loomed as Washington told Moscow its support for the regime could fuel civil war. The Free Syrian Army warned the regime of President Bashar Assad to abide by the six-...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
Today's updated shipping databases show that the Professor Katsman did in fact dock in the port of Tartus on May 26, 2012 before heading to Piraeus, Greece," Sadia Hameed of Human Rights First told Reuters. One Western diplomat told Reuters the...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Syria's main rebel commander urged Kofi Annan Thursday to announce that his peace plan has failed and free insurgents from any commitment to a truce deal, as Damascus blamed up to 800 rebel fighters for last week's Houla massacre that killed more...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
Clinton indicates that Washington continues to support the UN peacekeeping mission in Syria rather than direct intervention by the United States. Syria's main rebel commander urged UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan on Thursday to announce that his...
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Leader Post Online
| 12 months ago
Syria is nearing full-blown sectarian civil war that would be catastrophic for the entire Middle East, Western nations said on Thursday, urging Russia to end its support for President Bashar al-Assad and put pressure on him to stop the bloodshed.
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
U.N.-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan warned during talks with top Lebanese leaders Thursday of instability in Lebanon should Syria slide into a civil war following the failure of several U.N. efforts to end the 15-month-old conflict there,...
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News 24
| 12 months ago
Syria on Thursday blamed up to 800 rebel fighters for the massacre in central Syria last week that killed more than 100 people, nearly half of them children, in its most comprehensive explanation to date of the bloodshed. The narrative starkly...
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News 24
| 12 months ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday laid out the clearest case yet for why the Obama administration is reluctant to intervene militarily in Syria - especially without Russia agreeing to be part of a united Western front - even as it...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
Story continues below Speaking after a closed meeting of the UN Security Council in New York, Ms Rice said a further escalation of the conflict in Syria was the likeliest scenario now, with it also spreading to other countries in the region. ''...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
Russia said the United Nations Security Council should not consider new measures to resolve the crisis in Syria and signaled it would block any effort to authorize military intervention in its Middle Eastern ally. A spokesman for Russian President...
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Al Jazeera English
| 12 months ago
10 Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has said that massacres of civilians, such as the one perpetrated in Houla last weekend, could plunge Syria into a devastating civil war...Meanwhile, state media reported that 500 prisoners who were arrested...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
The US envoy to the United Nations has warned that UN Security Council members may have to act alone to end the violence in Syria if the crisis worsens and the Council remains divided. US Ambassador Susan Rice's remarks marked a rhetorical escalation...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Armed rebels have given the Damascus regime until noon (0900 GMT) Friday to stick to Kofi Annan's peace plan to end violence in Syria, warning they themselves will quit the truce unless the ultimatum is met. "If the Syrian regime does not meet the...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
VOA News May 30, 2012 United Nations observers in Syria have raised new allegations of execution-style killings with the discovery of 13 bound corpses as the United States hinted that continued slaughter in the violence-torn country could prompt...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
Speaking to reporters after international mediator Kofi Annan's deputy, Jean-Marie Guehenno, gave the 15-nation council a bleak assessment of the impact of Annan's efforts to halt the violence in Syria. US military officials probably have a poor...
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CNN
| 12 months ago
And all of us will know for sure the identity of the perpetrators." Syrian officials have repeatedly denied government involvement in the massacre that left more than 100 people dead, about half of them children. But Rupert Colville, spokesman for...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
The Russian Foreign Ministry said there should be an unbiased investigation under the auspices of a U.N. observer mission into a weekend massacre in Syria...High Commissioner for Human Rights, said most of the 108 people killed in Houla last weekend...
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AP Online
| 12 months ago
A U.N. diplomat says a deputy to international envoy Kofi Annan is appealing for a genuine political process to break the cycle of violence in Syria.
Jean-Marie Guehenno told a closed meeting of the U.N. Security Council by...
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AP Online
| 12 months ago
Ambassador Susan Rice says the worst and most likely scenario for Syria is that Kofi Annan's peace plan will fail, spreading conflict and creating a major crisis across the region.
Rice said Wednesday after a closed-door briefing to the...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
A Syrian boy, reportedly shot in the hand by Syrian border guards while crossing a river to Lebanon on 30 May. Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP Russia has made clear that it will block UN support for foreign military intervention in Syria , scotching...
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Fox
| 12 months ago
U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday. In wake of the recent violence, Syrian rebels have reportedly given President Bashar Assad a 48-...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months ago
The UN's top observer says he is "deeply disturbed" by a newly discovered massacre in Syria, as the opposition insists president Bashar al-Assad must step down if a peace plan is to be saved. The discovery of the bodies of 13 people apparently killed...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Denmark, the United States and the European Union have requested the meeting to address the "deteriorating human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic and the killings in Houla," said a statement from...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Syrian newspapers suggested on Wednesday that the Western expulsion of Damascus diplomats could jeopardize Kofi Annan's peace plan, but also accused the UN-Arab League envoy of being one-sided. Several Western states expelled top Syrian envoys on...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 12 months ago
A massacre in the Syrian town of Houla has sparked international outrage but is unlikely to break a year-long impasse on the U.N. Security Council between Syria's ally Russia and Western powers calling for President Bashar al-Assad's ouster. The...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
The nine nations that expelled Syrian envoys plan to push for tougher sanctions, Britain said as the U.N...The European Union was separately considering "a further tightening of sanctions on Syria," British Foreign Secretary William Hague said.
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NewKerala
| 12 months ago
In view of the situation prevailing in Syria, Indian nationals are again advised to avoid all non-essential travel to Syria for the present," read a Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) statement. Meanwhile, in a meeting with the Syrian President,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Western powers made a dramatic move to isolate the Syrian regime yesterday (on Tuesday) when a dozen nations expelled the country's ambassadors or formally rebuked its envoys in the aftermath of the Houla massacre. One by one, President Bashar al-...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
U.S. and world leaders dramatically increased pressure on Syria in the wake of a civilian massacre, with special envoy Kofi Annan declaring the country to be at a tipping point and urging its president to implement a peace plan that could fatally...
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Denver Post
| 12 months ago
Western nations expelled senior Syrian diplomats Tuesday in a hardened and coordinated condemnation of the weekend massacre of more than 100 villagers in Syria, nearly half of them children. The response by the United States and other nations came as...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Australia has urged western nations to consider military intervention in Syria over the recent massacre which claimed the lives of at least 108 civilians, including 49 children. Share This Story In a move to turn the screws on the Syrian regime,...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
The Washington Post The United States and 10 other countries expelled Syrian diplomats Tuesday after blaming government forces for last week's massacre of more than 100 villagers in central Syria but again stopped short of calling for more aggressive...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan has said the country has reached a "tipping point" after more than a year of conflict. Mr Annan made the remarks after talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Mr Annan told reporters the six-point...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months ago
Syrian diplomats were expelled from countries around the world as former United Nations boss Kofi Annan met Bashar al-Assad in Damascus to urge an immediate end to violence in the country. Australia, the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Canada,...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 12 months ago
Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images The US has joined Britain, France, a host of other EU countries, Australia and Canada in expelling Syrian diplomats in a chorus of global outrage at the massacre of more than 100 people, including scores of children, in...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
Several Western countries began expelling Syrian diplomats Tuesday, ramping up international outcry to the continued violence against pro-democracy protesters. The countries, including Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Spain, Italy and Canada,...
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The Courier-Mail
| 12 months ago
The US today expelled Syria's top diplomat as part of a global response to the massacre of civilians in the town of Houla last week. Syria's charge d'affaires Zouheir Jabbour was given 72 hours to leave the country, the US State Department said.
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Toughening their stand on Syria, Britain and Australia on Tuesdayannounced expulsion of the country's diplomats in the wake of the recent massacre of children and women at Houla, describing the killing of 108 people there as "sickening" and "hideous".
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
Peace envoy Kofi Annan expressed grave concern to Syria's President Bashar Assad on Tuesday and Western nations threw out its envoys to protest against a massacre of 108 civilians, many of them children, in the town of Houla. France, Britain, Canada,...
