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20 more people die in Syria as civil war continues: NGOs

Rebels and regime troops clashed in a district of the Syrian capital as scores of protests were held across the strife-torn country and more than 20 people killed on Friday, monitors said. Clashes broke out in Kfar Sousa, a Damascus district where anti-regime sentiment is strong, while explosions rocked the Mazzeh and al Qaeda neighbourhoods, […]

Syrian President Assad vows to fight on as international pressure mounts

Syria’s president defied mounting international pressure to end the year-old crackdown on an uprising against him and said Tuesday he is determined to go on fighting what he called “foreign-backed terrorism.” After an American senator called for airstrikes on Syria, President Obama said unilateral U.S. military action against President Bashar Assad’s regime would be a […]

Red Cross handing out aid to victims in Homs as Syrian civil war continues

Red Cross teams began handing out food and blankets in central Homs province on Sunday after days of delays, helping families who fled the besieged neighbourhood of Baba Amr and took shelter in nearby villages. Government forces have blocked humanitarian access to Baba Amr since Friday, the day after troops seized it from rebels, and […]

France decides to close its embassy in Syria as death toll mounts due to executions

Syrian activists accused regime forces of carrying out execution-style killings and burning homes Friday as part of a scorched-earth campaign in a restive neighbourhood in the city of Homs, and the Red Cross said the regime blocked the group’s access to the area following a bloody, month long siege to dislodge rebel forces. The International […]

The Euro crisis receives another blow: S&P re-evaluates the rankings of European countries – Part 1

The Eurozone is attracting opprobrium from every side. On the top, public is raising questions on the economic prosperity of the region, the sides are being attacked by the shortfall of internal consumption and Euro is losing its value at the bottom. However, the Euro countries have recently been attacked at the front by Standard […]

The Euro crisis receives another blow: S&P re-evaluates the rankings of European countries – Part 2

France came down from AAA rating to AA+ while Italy and Spain’s ratings were down two notches, reading even worst news from France. Austria was cut to AA+ from AAA; Cyprus to BB+ from BBB; Italy to BBB+ from A; Malta to A- from A; Portugal to BB from BBB-; the Slovak Republic to A […]

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