The pattern I see emerging is this one; The US and Russia have made a secret deal about Syria. Russia is trying to buy Assad some time by dragging out the start of the new peace initiative. Assad is using this time in an all out offensive.
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Nationalists threaten to return to the streets to topple another government unless it expropriates the Kumtor goldmine
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Members of the European Parliament have paved the way for hundreds of millions
of pounds of subsidies to go to Europe’s tobacco farmers â even though
Brussels spends huge amounts on anti-smoking campaigns
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Three months after crowds celebrated another election triumph for the president, the mood in Caracas is transformed
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Orlando says garden against city code
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The Russian company that manufactures the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifle has fallen on hard times. A halt in orders from the Russian military and a flood of cheaper knockoffs have driven it into bankruptcy. But the firm hopes to revive it fortunes with new models and a global branding campaign.
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The White House has filed an appeal in hopes of reversing a federal judge’s ruling that bans the indefinite military detention of Americans because attorneys for the president say they are justified to imprison alleged terrorists without charge.
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The BBC is considering making an appeal against a court order which stopped it from broadcasting a dramatized film on last year’s riots in London.
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The ex-soldiers and their young recruits have been pressing President Michel Martelly to honor his campaign goal of restoring the armed forces.
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Computer giant Apple released a patch this week for its OS X 2012 and 10.6 operating systems about the same time a Russian security company claimed that up to 600,000 Mac computers around the world are being controlled by a piece of malware that sucks targeted computers into a “botnet,” or a makeshift network of computers controlled by cyber-criminals.
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