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Russia?s President Vladimir Putin also said that both sides of the Syrian conflict must enter into peace negotiations.

Desai may have had the last laugh on all the naysayers; he lived to be 99 years old (in a country where the average life expectancy is only 64).

The widely admired opposition leader recently returned from a whirlwind tour through Europe.

Assad also specifically singled out the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey of supporting the ?terrorists? who are seeking his overthrow.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the Shah of Iran were solidly supported by the U.S., Israel, and Western Europe -- a scenario that outraged much of the populace in each country and exacerbated festering resentments.

Many high school graduates want to forego university altogether.

RAF, also called the Baader-Meinhof gang, waged a violent terrorist campaign against the West German state and especially U.S. military bases in the country during the late 1960s and 1970s.

He asserted that a number of major leaguers who have been elected into the Hall of Fame in recent years also did not deserve enshrinement.

There are, in fact, tens of millions of Muslims around the world who are ?white? -- and no one would bother to call them ?white Muslims.?

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, who is in conflict with Basescu, is the leader of the opposition Social Liberal Union (USL) party.

Russia and China are not attending the Paris summit.

Connery grew up a hard-drinking, womanizing, football-loving brawler who sported tattoos and was employed at a number of dead-end jobs as a laborer.

Tlas escaped to Turkey, making him the fifteenth brigadier to have joined the rebels. He is from one of Syria?s most illustrious and famous families.

The works are estimated to have a combined value of some ?700 million ($867 million) .

To some extent, monetary easing has been accommodated because of stable-to-lower inflationary pressures.

Western human rights group including the British-based Amnesty International, has condemned China?s brutal policies in Xinjiang.

Palestinians, mostly from the West Bank, already account for about one-third of Jordan?s 6 million strong population.

But Russia is apparently getting tired of Assad?s slow pace of reform and the continuing violence against unarmed civilians.

Between January 2008 and April 2011, a total of 60 France Telecom employees killed themselves.

The military, which still controls one quarter of the seats in parliament, will choose a successor for Tin Aung Myint Oo.

Kenyan had signed a deal in June to purchase about 4 million tons of oil from the Iranian National Oil Company.

The victim was believed to be mentally unstable.

Independence Day gives us 24 hours to reconnect with these ?truths self-evident.? But it is these same truths that we increasingly take for granted.

According to a polling agency, 6.5 percent of the French voting public is gay, and only 4.5 percent of the electorate are practicing Catholics.

Islamabad will not charge any transit fees when the routes reopen.

The five have not been identified.

On the whole, Poland has at least 40,000 illegal immigrants, with Vietnamese, Pakistanis and Ukrainians accounting for the bulk

All but one of the children died with rapid deterioration of respiratory function, the WHO said.

He, along with his former partner in crime, Myra Hindley, will forever be known as the ?Moors murderers? for a series of gruesome, sadistic murders committed against children and teenagers outside of Manchester.