UN on Syria: Major powers feeding ‘military escalation’ - AP: War crimes are “rampant” in Syria, and the conflict has become “a multisided proxy war steered from abroad by an intricate network of alliances,” U.N. investigators said in a new report Monday.
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UN on Syria: Major powers feeding ‘military escalation’by Edith M. Lederer | AP
War crimes are “rampant” in Syria, and the conflict has become “a multisided proxy war steered from abroad by an intricate network of alliances,” U.N. investigators said in a new report Monday.
U.S. troops occupied the Philippines for nearly half a century.
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Russia’s Putin calls the cease-fire agreement on Syria a ‘real step that can stop the bloodshed’ .
The Latest on the conflict in Syria and the provisional cease-fire proposed by the U.S. and Russia (all times local):
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia violated opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s right to a fair trial, and has ordered the government to pay him €56,000 euros ($61,700) in legal costs and damages.
A Russian opposition activist has released a report accusing Chechnya’s Moscow-backed regional leader of involvement in the killing of a prominent Kremlin foe.
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The attack is the latest violence in Bangladesh to be attributed to the Islamic State, although the authorities are skeptical of the group’s presence.
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Laurent Fabius, center, the former French foreign minister, after handing over powers to the newly appointed foreign minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, second from right, in Paris this month.
A makeshift hospital after what local activists said was an airstrike carried out by government forces in the rebel-held area of Douma, near Damascus, Syria, in October.
A copy of the Communist-era secret service documents, released on Monday in Warsaw, that are said to indicate that the Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was a collaborator.
The cease-fire is to begin Saturday, but officials acknowledge that obstacles remain in getting the Syrian government and the armed opposition to comply.
In visits to state news organizations on Friday, the president reiterated his policy, and he wants to curb the presence of foreign media companies.
Dr. Reinhardt was the first black American ambassador to Nigeria, and the first career diplomat and first university educator to lead the information agency.
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The branch offices of three Russian banks were firebombed or looted over the weekend, and some of the attacks by Ukrainian nationalists.
João Santana, a campaign strategist for the nation’s last two presidents, has been accused in the widening Petrobras corruption scandal.
Russia Wants Closer Look From Above the U.S.by ERIC SCHMITT and MICHAEL R. GORDON
Adm. Cecil D. Haney, commander of the United States Strategic Command, during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington last year.
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