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Reuters World News Highlights at 2155 GMT, May 16
ReutersLONDON, May 16 (Reuters) - TOP STORIES ----------- WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday chose a White House budget official to lead the beleaguered Internal Revenue Service temporarily and vowed to ensure that the tax-collection agency...Tags: Vatican City, White House, Politics, U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, DC
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Obama says U.S. won't act alone on Syria
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Thursday ruled out unilateral U.S. military action in Syria even if proof emerges that Syrian forces have used lethal chemical weapons. "This is … an international problem," Obama said at a White House news...
Tags: U.S. Military, White House, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Spanish ambassador calls for Cabinet formation, new electoral law
The Lebanon Daily StarSpain's Ambassador to Lebanon Milagros Hernando called Thursday for both the formation of a Lebanese government and the holding of parliamentary elections, highlighting that her country supported stability in Lebanon. "A new government should be...Tags: National Government, Politics, Lebanon, Elections, Beirut (Lebanon)
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Syrian grain imports pick up despite worsening war
Reuters* Grain sales being routed via brokers * U.N. says Syria conflict a humanitarian catastrophe By Jonathan Saul LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - Syria has managed to increase its grain imports in recent months after a period when it was less active on...Tags: Breads, Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Nations, Lebanon, Globalization
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Russia says Iran must take part in proposed Syria talks
ReutersMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Iran must take part in a proposed international conference to end Syria's civil war, but that Western states wanted to limit the participants and possibly predetermine the outcome of the...Tags: Francois Hollande, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ban Ki-moon, Wars and Interventions, John Kerry
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Turkish prime minister, Obama discuss Syria's civil war in White House meeting
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and Turkey will keep ramping up pressure to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, but there's "no magic formula" to stop his violence. At a news conference with Turkish...Tags: U.S. Military, West Bank, Joe Biden, White House, Politics
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Syrian troops push back rebels who stormed central prison in northern city of Aleppo
Associated PressBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels withdrew from a prison in the northern city of Aleppo Thursday after heavy fighting with government troops, an activist group said, as it more than doubled its tally of deaths from sectarian killings in a coastal city...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Religion and Belief, Politics, Human Rights, Research
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US sets sanctions on 4 ministers in Assad's government, leader of al-Qaida-linked rebel group
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has added four Syrian government ministers to a U.S. terror blacklist as well as the leader of an al-Qaida-linked organization fighting President Bashar Assad's (bah-SHAR' AH'-sahd) regime. Thursday's...Tags: National Government, Politics, U.S. Department of State, Al-Qaeda, Washington, DC
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U.S. widens sanctions to four Syrian officials, TV station, airline
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday blacklisted four Syrian government ministers, an airline and a television station it said helped the Assad government in its two-year crackdown on opposition forces. The move follows broad U.S....Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Syrian rebels launch offensive in south to reverse losses
ReutersAMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said they attacked an important military base in the south and checkpoints in the city of Deraa on Thursday, trying to regain ground lost to President Bashar al-Assad's forces near the Jordanian border. The rebels were...Tags: Free Syrian Army, Religion and Belief, Politics, Human Rights, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Obama says US diplomatic, military options remain open in Syria crisis
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he reserves the right to resort to a range of both diplomatic and military options if he receives conclusive proof that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had used...Tags: Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Islamist rebels execute 11 Syrian soldiers for "massacres"-video
ReutersBEIRUT, May 16 (Reuters) - Fighters of the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in Syria executed 11 men they accused of taking part in massacres by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, a video published on Thursday showed. A man whose face was covered in a...Tags: Politics, Human Rights, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda, Death Penalty
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