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Wednesday's statement didn't explicitly demand that President Bashar al-Assad step down, but it warned that his regime should immediately cease troop movements towards, and end the use of heavy weapons in, population centers, and begin pullback of military concentrations.

Pyongyang officials said such rhetoric may be akin to a declaration of war.

Syrian army tanks and artillery shelled two Damascus suburbs on Wednesday after rebels allegedly attacked forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo are set to be nominated to lead the World Bank, sources with knowledge of emerging market efforts to find candidates said on Tuesday.

Developing economies are going to nominate two candidates to become the next president of World Bank, according to a Reuters report.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in cold blood, will face charges within a week.

Members of Syria's armed opposition have been accused of committing serious human rights abuses during the year-long uprising against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

The invitation by the North's chief nuclear negotiator Ri Yong-ho came after an agreement last month to suspend the testing of nuclear and long range missiles while also allowing inspectors into the country in return for food aid.

Russia, a staunch ally of Syria, has vetoed two U.N. resolutions that condemned President Bashar al-Assad. It now appears Russian officials may have grown impatient with Assad as his crackdown on dissidents continues to escalate.

An IMF team has arrived in Cairo Monday for talks, on a $3.2 billion loan facility for Egypt. This can be a crucial meeting especially as collapse in investor confidence since last year’s revolution has left Egypt on the brink of a balance of payments crisis according to Capital Economics.

A military unit from Russia, President Bashar al-Assad's best and last friend, has arrived in Syria, Russian media reported Monday.

Amnesty International has charged NATO with failing to investigate the deaths of scores of Libyan civilians who did not directly participate in hostilities during the Libyan uprising last year.

Russia’s entreaty to its ally comes amidst reports of very heavy fighting in Damascus.

As violence gripped Syria's capital, the head of the Red Cross urged Russian officials to press Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to let humanitarian-aid workers get to residents trapped by the fighting.

Speaking before the Security Council, the former UN Secretary-General renewed calls for an end to the fighting between President Bashar al-Assad and opposition forces, as he laid out plans to try re-establish an international presence in the country.

Israel's foreign minister said Friday in Beijing that his country hopes to resolve a nuclear standoff with Iran through diplomatic means. China has close ties to both Israel and Iran.

Cardiologist Dr Fawaz Akhras, whose glamorous London-born daughter Asma married Assad in 2000, has also been caught advising the regime on how to respond to graphic images such as the torture of children by Syrian government forces.

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