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UN Security Council to Hold Emergency Meeting on Syria Massacre

22:07 27/05/2012 UN, May 27 (RIA Novosti)

The UN Security Council meets on Sunday for an emergency meeting to discuss massacre in Syria’s town Houla that left dozens dead, many of them children, press service of Russian diplomatic mission to the UN reported.

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U.S. Ambassador to Russia urged all members of the international community to join forces and prevent the tragedy in the town of Houla that left dozens dead, many of them children.
British Foreign Secretary to Head to Moscow
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Turkish Intelligence Foils Kidnapping of Syrian Opposition Army Chief
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Turkish security forces have foiled a plot to kidnap the head of the opposition Free Syrian Army (FSA), Riad al-Asaad, Milliyet daily reported on Monday.
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NATO does not plan to use military force in Syria, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.2
Russia Calls for Solving Syrian Crisis by "Forceps", Not "Ax"
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At least nine people were killed and some 100 others injured after a car bomb exploded in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, al Jazeera television reported.
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UN envoy Kofi Annan’s plan for Syria is in jeopardy over attempts by certain forces to create a spiral of violence in the country, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday.
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