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FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2011 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad addresses a meeting of the central committee of the Baath party in Damascus, Syria. Despite Assad's assurances to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that military and police operations had stopped, Syrian security forces fired at thousands of protesters who poured into the streets throughout the country Friday, Aug. 19, killing at least 13, activists said. (AP Photo/SANA, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Arab League to Assad: Leave

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Massacre in Syrian village

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France urges action in Syria

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Syria has ‘torture centers’

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Earhart mystery solved?

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‘Breakthrough’ as euro zone agrees to directly recapitalize banks

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Dozens die in Iraq bombings

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This frame grab made from an amateur video provided by Syrian activists on Monday, May 28, 2012, purports to show the massacre in Houla on May 25 that killed more than 100 people, many of them children. (AP/Amateur Video via AP video) ((AP/Amateur Video via AP video))

Human shields in Syria

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ournalists gather near by as French police secure the area where they exchanged fire and were negotiating with a gunman who claims connections to al-Qaida and is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers, Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in Toulouse, southwestern France (AP Photo/Bruno Martin)

Toulouse suspect under siege

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A student is flanked by an unidentified woman and a police officer as they leave a Jewish school after a gunman opened fire in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012 (AP Photo/Manu Blondeau)

France’s terror alert

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An elderly Afghan man sits next to the covered body of a person who was allegedly killed by a U.S. service member, in a minibus in Panjwai, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 11, 2012 (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

The Taliban retaliates

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