Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria's civil war next door.
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The U.N. General Assembly approved an Arab-backed resolution Wednesday calling for a political transition in Syria, but more than 70 countries refused to vote "yes" because of its support for the main opposition group and fears the resolution could torpedo a new U.S.-Russia effort to end the escalating conflict.
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Israel rushed to beef up its rocket defenses on its northern border Sunday to shield against possible retaliation after carrying out two airstrikes in Syria over 48 hours — an unprecedented escalation of Israeli involvement in the Syrian civil war.
Syria and its patron Iran hinted at possible retribution, though the rhetoric in official statements appeared relatively muted.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare public appearance at a Damascus power station on Wednesday, while two bombs exploded near the city center, killing one and wounding over two dozen people, Syria's state news agency reported.
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Here we go again! San Francisco is readying itself for that most sacred of sacred cows, our yearly triumphal march: the gay pride parade. For the entire month of June, rainbow flags wave along Market Street from the Castro all the way to The Embarcadero to prepare us for this most glorious occasion. On the anointed Sunday even the Main Library closes in strict observance, as the vast crowd cheers and roars and the media slobber and fawn.
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WHAT: Syria’s best-known cartoonist, Ali Ferzat, 60, was dragged from his car before dawn by four masked gunmen who beat him severely and broke both his hands as a warning to stop drawing Syrian autocrat Bashar al Assad.WHY: Ferzat posted a cartoon on his website this week showing Assad with a packed suitcase, hitching a ride with fleeing Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The cartoonist was a vehement critic of Assad’s bloody crackdown against his people.
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WHAT: U.S. authorities charge that Syrian embassy staffers, under direction of Ambassador Imad Moustapha, are tracking and photographing expatriate opponents of President Bashar al Assad’s regime and sending reports to Syria’s intelligence agency.
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Dale McFeatters
08/09/11 9:22 PM
Finally, five months after Syria began to brutally suppress demonstrations by its own people, the Arab world is telling President Bashar Assad enough is enough.Late as it was in coming, the denunciation was a sign of welcome change in a region where despots had a mutual-protection society. Several of those despots are now in exile or awaiting trial, and the end of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s long and brutal rule seems only a matter of time.
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