02 Aug
Events of Interest and Analyses, A Foreign Perspective
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Did the US cause Fallujah’s birth defects?
On Inside Story Americas
Syria forces attack Damascus district
Syrian forces storm neighbourhood in capital, reportedly killing at least 35 civilians, as rebels shell Aleppo airbase.
Last Modified: 02 Aug 2012 12:42 GMT
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Middle East
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Interactive: Tracking defections
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Regime loyalists ‘executed’ in Syria’s Aleppo
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Turkey hospitals struggle with refugee influx
Obama inks ‘secret order’ to aid Syria rebels
New order broadly permits CIA and other US agencies to support rebels seeking to depose Bashar al-Assad from power.
Last Modified: 02 Aug 2012 09:26 GMT
Middle East
The world’s silent epidemic
The Stream
01 Aug 2012 17:57 GMT
Health professionals say depression should no longer be viewed as a #firstworldproblem.
‘What will happen to us?’: Loyalists fear rebel attacks
02 August 2012 12:00 AM
In Aleppo, Kim Sengupta finds members of pro-Assad tribes hiding behind
closed doors in fear of revenge raids
Syrian rebels attack military base
02 August 2012 12:01 PM
Syrian rebels have bombarded a military air base in Aleppo using a tank
captured from government troops as activists reported that the regime has
unleashed new raids against opposition fighters near the capital Damascus,
killing dozens.
60,000 ultra-orthodox Israelis face call-up as exemption ends
02 August 2012 12:00 AM
Israel’s Defence minister Ehud Barak has given Army chiefs one month to draw
up a plan to enlist around 60,000 ultra-orthodox young men who were legally
exempted from compulsory military service while they pursued religious
studies.
Republican senator James Inhofe told the environment and public works committee ‘climate change is a hoax perpetrated on the American people’. Photograph: Bill Clark/Getty Images
Stop this culture of paying politicians for denying climate change
Protecting the environment requires a sweeping reform of political funding, only then corporations will stop throwing big money at senators
