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  Lafarge charged with complicity in crimes against humanity in Syria

  Reuters | Updated at 06:25pm on June 28, 2018

  French cement giant Lafarge was charged Thursday with complicity in crimes against humanity and financing a terrorist group for paying millions to...

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  Record 68.5m people displaced worldwide: UN

  Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 01:33pm on June 19, 2018

  A record 68.5 million people have been forced flee their homes due to war, violence and persecution, notably in places like Myanmar and Syria, the...

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  920,000 displaced in Syria in 2018: UN

  Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 12:05am on June 12, 2018

  More than 920,000 people were displaced inside Syria during the first four months of 2018, the highest level in the seven-year conflict, the United Nations...

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  Iran in a tight corner 

  Imran Khalid | Updated at 12:05am on June 12, 2018

  THE last one month has been very rough for Iran. It is suddenly finding itself in a very tight corner....

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  UN chief calls for investigation of Syria strikes

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 12:33pm on June 11, 2018

  UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres on Sunday called for an investigation of air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian jets in...

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  Why Venezuela and Syria cannot fall

  Andre Vltchek | Updated at 12:05am on June 11, 2018

  DESPITE tremendous hardship which the Venezuelan people are having to face, despite the sanctions and intimidation from abroad, president Nicolás Maduro has won a second...

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  Air strikes kill 38 in Syria’s Idlib

  Reuters | Updated at 01:41pm on June 08, 2018

  Air strikes on a village in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province have killed at least 38 people overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said...

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  Russia not planning to withdraw from Syria yet: Putin

  Reuters . Moscow | Updated at 09:49pm on June 07, 2018

  President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia was not planning to withdraw its forces from Syria for now, and would keep them there for...

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  US warns Syria of firm action over southern offensive

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 01:14am on May 27, 2018

  The US has warned Damascus it will take ‘firm’ action if the regime of Bashar al-Assad violates a ceasefire deal, after Syrian aircraft dropped leaflets...

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  ‘Survival’ would be name of my film on refugees: Priyanka

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 09:30pm on May 25, 2018

  Internationally acclaimed Indian actress Priyanka Chopra said her real-life experiences that she gathered in the past one year while working with Syrian refugees in Jordan...