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White House: Arms to Syrian rebels due 'in the weeks to come'
WASHINGTON- -The White House said Friday that it will take weeks to deliver weapons and ammunition to Syrian rebels despite the rising death toll in the civil war and pleas for speedy assistance from anti-government forces. The United States has created...
Tags: Government, Weaponry, Bashar Assad, Russia, Wars and Interventions
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Getting U.S. weapons to Syria rebels will take weeks
WASHINGTON — Delivering weapons and ammunition to beleaguered Syrian rebels will take weeks, White House officials acknowledged Friday as the administration's decision to supply arms set off a debate about how far, and how fast, President Obama's...
Tags: U.S. Military, Government, Armed Forces, Bashar Assad, Wars and Interventions
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Russia not convinced by U.S. claims of Syrian chemical weapons use
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details,MOSCOW – Russia on Friday said it was not persuaded by U.S. assertions that Syria has used chemical weapons in the country’s civil war and called the decision to send arms to some rebel groups unhelpful. Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Russian...Tags: Christianity, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Government, Weaponry, Parliament
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Syria's Assad crossed 'red line.' What's Obama's next move?
Rarely has a military escalation been so exquisitely gradual. President Obama has been calling for Syria’s President Bashar Assad to surrender power for almost two years. Last year, he proclaimed a “red line,” a prohibition against...
Tags: U.S. Military, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Bashar Assad, National Security Agency
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U.S. says Syria used chemical weapons, will send arms to rebels
WASHINGTON — The White House declared Thursday that Syria had crossed a "red line" by using chemical weapons in that country's civil war, and in response, U.S. officials said, President Obama had authorized sending arms to some rebel groups. The...
Tags: Biological and Chemical Weapons, U.S. Military, Government, John McCain, Weaponry
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Protests in Turkey bring a reckoning to Prime Minister Erdogan
ISTANBUL, Turkey — With swagger and grand designs, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rose to power more than a decade ago, heralding a new Islamist-based democracy he envisioned as a model for a Muslim world caught in the grip of...
Tags: Government, Abdullah Gul, Istanbul (Turkey), Islam, Religion and Belief
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McManus: Obama's foreign policy reset
The appointment of Susan Rice as national security advisor sends an important signal about the kind of foreign policy President Obama wants to pursue for the remainder of his second term: activist, assertive, occasionally even pugnacious. With three years...
Tags: Elections, U.S. Military, Bill Clinton, Tehran (Iran), International Military Interventions
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Russian lawmakers move to keep information on homosexuality from kids
MOSCOW – Despite opposition from human rights activists, Russia’s lower house of parliament Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban providing children with information on homosexuality. The lower house, or State Duma, voted...
Tags: Nelson Mandela, Parliament, Russia, Moscow (Russia), Religion and Belief
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Russia President Vladimir Putin and wife announce divorce
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his long-suffering wife, Lyudmila, are ending their nearly 30-year marriage, they announced on state television Thursday in a tone of mutual indifference. "We practically never saw each other," Putin...
Tags: Saint Petersberg (Russia), Russia, Moscow (Russia)
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Russia's first couple divorcing; Putin biography tells why
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife of nearly 30 years announced on state television Thursday that they are divorcing. Those curious about what caused the breakup won't have to wait for a tell-all book: Lyudmila Putina dished the dirt on her...
Tags: Saint Petersberg (Russia), Russia
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The Week Ahead: Syria festers, Cuba connects, China's Xi tours
No escaping the conundrum of Syria's war Monday-Tuesday, June 3-4 – Russian and European leaders face an agenda packed with economic and political issues at their two-day summit in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. But as with most...
Tags: Government, Hosni Mubarak, Bashar Assad, Wars and Interventions, Justice System
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U.S. lawmakers meet Russian officials, with help from actor Steven Seagal
MOSCOW — The head of a U.S. congressional delegation said Sunday that its meetings in Russia showed there was “nothing specific” that could have helped prevent the Boston Marathon bombings, but that the two countries need to work more...
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Celebrities, Wars and Interventions, Islam, Dana Rohrabacher
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