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2/6/2012 12:49:20 PM
Driven by the Russian-Chinese veto, Syrian army shells the restive Syrian city of Homs killing dozens and injuring hundreds
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2/5/2012 9:54:36 AM
After the massacre in Homs Russia sinks a UN resolution to push Al-Assad out, calling it a biased attempt at regime change in Syria, its Middle Eastern ally
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2/4/2012 5:15:53 PM
US hopeful Russia would vote "yes" on Syria resolution despite Russian warnings earlier
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2/4/2012 3:07:10 PM
Russia seeks to delay a UN Security Council vote on a resolution aimed at ending the bloodshed in Syria, warning of a "scandal" if the current draft was put to council members
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2/4/2012 2:22:13 PM
Total mulls restarting its exploration operation in South Sudan after it had stopped for over 27 years
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2/3/2012 5:26:28 PM
A senior State Department official says the United States is 'cautiously optimistic' about winning Russia's support for a UN Security Council resolution aimed at ending Syria's domestic crisis
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2/3/2012 4:05:36 PM
Arab and Western states exert considerable diplomatic efforts to avoid Russian veto on a UN Security Council resolution to end the 11-month uprising in Syria that the UN estimates has caused at least 5,000 deaths
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1/31/2012 5:06:41 PM
UN chief calls for unity before Security Council meeting with Arab League on draft proposal to end Syria crisis
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1/31/2012 3:28:37 PM
Russia states it will never let the Security Council approve a military action on Syria and warns that UN draft resolution will push the Arab country into a civil war
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1/31/2012 12:51:57 PM
Ahead of the UN meeting on the Syrian crisis, the Syrian National Council urges mosques and churches to back the call for 'day of mourning and anger' with prayer calls and ringing bells across the country
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1/30/2012 1:10:35 PM
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation calls on the international community to take the necessary measures to stop the continued bloodshed in Syria
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1/30/2012 10:06:33 AM
Armed forces loyal to Assad retake control of the capital's eastern suburbs in bloody battle with opposition fighters as the Arab League's chief heads to New York, seeking UN intervention
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1/29/2012 10:15:44 PM
At least 66 people, including 26 civilians, were killed in violence across Syria
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1/29/2012 10:15:02 PM
Around 2,000 Syrian troops backed by tanks launched an assault to retake Damascus suburbs from rebels, activists said, day after the Arab League suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of worsening violence
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1/29/2012 2:40:04 PM
Nabil El-Arabi flies to New York seeking UN Security Council support for Arab initiative on Syria, expresses hope that China, Russia will change positions on issue
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1/28/2012 3:12:51 PM
The release of the seized South Sudanese ships is an attempt to ease tensions between the two nations
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1/28/2012 2:34:49 PM
Foreign ministers of Turkey and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member-states held talks on the problematic domestic situation in Syria amid Western and Arab endeavours for resorting to the UN Security Council
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1/28/2012 10:02:55 AM
Oman says the crisis in Syria should be solved through an Arab peace plan and no military foreign intervention will be allowed
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1/28/2012 10:02:25 AM
Russia tells the UN Security Council that it disagree with the Arab League trying to "impose an outside solution" on the conflict in Syria and rejects the idea of an arms embargo and the use of force
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1/27/2012 12:23:33 PM
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon advocates the 15-state Security Council to agree on a resolution on Syria's repression of the anti-governemnt protests, as consensus is not reached until now
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