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Last Modified: 02 Aug 2012 12:42 GMT
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
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.
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
Protecting the environment requires a sweeping reform of political funding, only then corporations will stop throwing big money at senators