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The UN Security Council on Sunday strongly condemned the Syrian government for using artillery in a massacre in which at least 108 people were killed and 300 others injured. HT Image UN officials told an emergency Security Council meeting on the slaughter in Houla that the dead included at least 49 children. Russia, Syria s main ally, signed up to the Security Council statement which condemned in the strongest possible terms the killings in the village near the protest city of Homs. The statement said the deaths had been confirmed by UN observers and were the re
stanley cup sult of attacks that involved a series of government artillery and tank shellings on a residential neighborhood. The 15-nation council made a new demand for President Bashar al-Assad to withdraw heavy weapons from populated areas -- in line with the peace plan of UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan -- and said that those responsible for acts of violence must be held accountable. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Annan have called the Houla massacre a
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stanley cup olation of international law . Thousands of people took part in nationwide protests against the Houla killings on Sunday, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported at least 33 people killed, among them 24 civilians. Britain and France had proposed a UN statement making an even stronger condemnation of the Assad government. But Russia would not agree on the wording and demanded a special meeting before approving the statement. The Syr Vrbk Focus on Shahzad s 5-month stay in Pakistan: Curtis
Haiti s provisional electoral council ruled on Friday that hip-hop star Wyclef Jean was not eligible to run as a presidential candidate in the country s Nov 28 election. HT Ima
adidas campus ge Singer-songwriter Jean, 40, an international celebrity who is popular in his impoverished and earthquake-ravaged homeland, was left off the list of approved candidates read aloud by the council on Friday night. A council member told Reuters on Thursday that Jean did not meet several of the legal requirements to contest the November election to choose a successor to President Rene Preval, who cannot run agai
hoka n after two terms. It was not immediately clear what requirements the council felt had not been met. Jean was among 34 presidential candidates considered by the electoral authority, which approved 19 candidates and rejected 15. Among those approved to run were two-time Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis; Leslie Voltaire, a US-educated urban planner and former minister: Yvon Neptune, another former prime minister who served under former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide; and well-known opposition leader and former first lady Mirlande Manigat. UN and Haitian police guarded the provisional electoral council headquarters in Port-au-Prince to prevent any trouble as feverish expectations mounted over which contenders would be on the confirmed list to
stanley cup run. It was feared that Jean s exclusion and that of other contenders from the electoral race on legal grounds could stir political ten
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