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8/7/2011 2:39:41 PM
A water fight in Tehran, organised on Facebook, becomes the target of a police crackdown
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World
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8/7/2011 2:24:12 PM
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad regards the attitude of his security forces against anti-regime protesters as the 'duty of state' to confront 'outlaws'
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World
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Region
8/6/2011 2:36:06 PM
Gulf council and European leaders stepping up pressure on Syria on the heels of Al-Assad's deadly crackdown on the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan
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World
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8/6/2011 1:15:31 PM
US, French and German leaders pledge to consider new steps to punish Syria after security forces continue a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators across the country
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World
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8/5/2011 11:00:27 AM
Tens of thousands of Syrians in different cities, start their first Friday mass protest in Ramadan against latest brutal crackdown by the Assad regime's forces in city of Hama
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World
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8/4/2011 5:23:41 PM
Death toll in Syria's fourth largest city is difficult to follow after the Syrian military cuts out electricity and communications
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World
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8/4/2011 3:24:58 PM
After Doctors Without Borders (MSF) condemned the Bahraini government's raiding of its medical centre, Bahrain's health ministry rebukes the condemnation saying the French medical organisation's presence in Bahrain is illegal
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World
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International
8/3/2011 3:43:01 PM
Greece to curb media-freedoms ahead of unpopular austerity plan, move is said to protect politicians from protester attacks
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World
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8/3/2011 3:33:31 PM
Turkey's Deputy PM says friendship with Syria cannot continue with "atrocity" carried out by the Syrian regime
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World
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8/1/2011 5:41:25 PM
Death toll in Hama's second day under military crackdown is significantly lower than the previous day as EU slams more sanctions and the Syrian regime insists armed gangs, foreign plot is destabilizing the restive country
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Egypt
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Politics
8/1/2011 11:19:37 AM
A group of Egyptian activists called for a protest in front of the Syrian embassy Sunday, to demand the expulsion of the Syrian Ambassador in Cairo
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World
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Region
7/31/2011 4:52:15 PM
US embassy official describes the Syrian regime's crackdown in Hama as desperate, slams Syria's official narrative of events in the protest centre
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World
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7/31/2011 2:12:54 PM
According to reports, at least 121 people have been killed in Syria's military crackdown on protests, 95 of which were in Hama, the scene of the Hafez al-Assad regime's 1982 massacre
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World
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Region
7/31/2011 1:40:00 PM
Activists say death toll rises to 95 in crackdown on Hama, Syria
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World
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7/31/2011 1:06:14 PM
British Foreign Secretary William Hague says Syria's attack on Hama on the eve of the Muslim Holy month as shocking, calls on Assad to stop the assault
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World
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7/28/2011 6:05:11 PM
EU governments agree in principle to extend sanctions to another five Syrian persons, adding to Assad and other officials sanctioned earlier
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World
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7/28/2011 2:27:56 PM
Avaaz international campaigning organization estimates that people in Syria are disappearing by the rate of one per hour
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World
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7/27/2011 2:04:44 PM
The Israeli president, Shimon Peres, says it would be better if his Syrian counterpart Al-Assad leave power after violent crackdowns against anti-regime protesters
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World
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7/26/2011 3:49:13 PM
Security forces have killed another three people and arrested so many that Syria has become a 'huge prison,' activists said on Tuesday, as the crackdown on dissent shows no signs of easing
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World
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7/25/2011 1:41:02 PM
A war crimes expert is to head international commission to investigate police and military violations in Bahrain's mass protests erupting in February
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