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U.S. Embassy Calls Syria Bombings “Unacceptable”

May 11, 2012 by ·

The U.S. embassy in Beirut called a double bombing that killed 55 people in Syria on Thursday “reprehensible and unacceptable” but said it would not change U.S. demands that the Syrian government implement a UN-backed peace plan.

The bombings were the deadliest attacks in the Syrian capital, Damascus, since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began 14 months ago.

“The United States condemns in the strongest terms the attacks that took place today in Damascus,” the U.S. embassy said in statements posted on Twitter. [Read more...]

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Lawmakers File Motion Condemning China’s Claim

April 20, 2012 by ·

Call for inquiry into why armed forces did not assert nation’s sovereignty

Manila Congressmen Teodoro Casiño and Neri Colmenares filed a resolution in the House of Representatives condemning China’s claim to Scarborough Shoal, which lies 230km west of Subuc Bay in central Luzon.

“We do not want to go to war, but we must assert our sovereignty, through whatever means we can,” Casiño said.

The two also called for a congressional inquiry on the inability of the Armed Forces, the Philippine Navy, the Philippine Coast Guard to assert the country’s sovereignty over the shoal. [Read more...]

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US Says Iran Involved In Plot To Assassinate Saudi Ambassador

October 12, 2011 by ·

The Justice Department on Tuesday accused elements of the Iranian government of being involved in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, and Attorney General Eric Holder said the U.S. would hold Iran accountable.

Two people, including a member of Iran’s special operations unit known as the Quds Force, were charged in New York federal court. Holder said the bomb plot was a flagrant violation of U.S. and international law.

“We will not let other countries use our soil as their battleground,” Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said at a press conference in Washington with Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller. [Read more...]

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