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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the Internet
December 22nd, 2012

Syrian civil war at stalemate, Assad won't go: Russia
Syria's civil war has reached stalemate and international efforts to persuade President Bashar al-Assad to quit will fail, Russia's FM Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.-"Listen, no one is going to win this war," he told reporters aboard a gov't plane en route to Moscow from the Russia-EU summit in Brussels. "Assad is not going anywhere, no matter what anyone says, be it China or Russia."

Russia: Syrian chemical weapons 'under control'
Russian FM Sergei Lavrov said in comments cleared for release on Saturday that Syria's chemical weapons had been concentrated in one or two areas and were "under control" for the time being. Lavrov said the biggest threat from Syria's chemical weapons was that they could fall into the hands of rebel forces. "Currently the (Syrian) gov't is doing all it can to secure (chemical weapons), according to intelligence data we have and the West has," he said.

US and Russia back bid to find end to Syrian war
Lakhdar Brahimi, the United nations special envoy to Syria, is reportedly planning to fly from Cairo to Damascus to present a deal to the Syrian president. The plan would create a transitional government made up of regime and opposition figures, according to diplomatic sources.

New York Gov: Gun Confiscation and Forced Buy-back an Option
New York governor Andrew Cuomo says the state of New York is serious about gun confiscation. The Democrat and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development told an Albany radio station he plans to propose a package of draconian legislation during his State of the State address next month. “I don’t think legitimate sportsmen are going to say, ‘I need an assault weapon to go hunting,’” Cuomo said, according to the New York Times.

Trojan-horse therapy 'completely eliminates' cancer in mice
An experimental "Trojan-horse" cancer therapy has completely eliminated prostate cancer in experiments on mice, according to UK researchers. The team hid cancer killing viruses inside the immune system in order to sneak them into a tumour. Once inside, a study in the journal Cancer Research showed, tens of thousands of viruses were released to kill the cancerous cells.

John Kerry nominated as next US secretary of state
US President Barack Obama has nominated Senator John Kerry to succeed Hillary Clinton as his next secretary of state. Mr Obama said Mr Kerry's "entire life" prepared him for the role, and praised him for the "respect and confidence" he has earned from world leaders. Mr Kerry ran as Democratic presidential candidate in 2004 and is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Tougher EU sanctions against Iran come into force
Rigorous new sanctions against Iran's banking, shipping and industrial sectors took effect on Saturday, as part of the European Union's effort to force Tehran to scale back its nuclear program. The sanctions, agreed in October, entered EU law with their publication in the European Union's Official Journal on Saturday.

Mob in Pakistan kills man accused of burning Quran
Police say a mob in southern Pakistan has beaten to death a Muslim man accused of burning a copy of Islam's holy book, and then set his body afire. The country's harsh blasphemy laws allow anyone found guilty of insulting Islam to be sentenced to death, but people also sometimes take such matters into their own hands.

Iran defense minister says NATO missiles harm Turkey security
The installation of Patriot anti-missile batteries sent by NATO members to bolster Turkey's defenses against a possible missile attack from Syria will only harm Turkey's security, Iran's defense minister was quoted as saying on Saturday.

Four dead, three police hurt in Pennsylvania shootings
A man with a pistol fatally shot three people on Friday in rural western Pennsylvania, one of them in a church, before he was killed in a shootout with state troopers as he tried to flee in a pickup truck, authorities said.

NKorea says it has detained a US citizen
North Korea said Friday that an American citizen has been detained after confessing to unspecified crimes, confirming news reports about his arrest at a time when Pyongyang is facing criticism from Washington for launching a long-range rocket last week.

Syria military 'continuing to fire Scud-type missiles'
Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says Syrian government forces are continuing to fire short-range ballistic missiles at rebel fighters. A Nato source told the Reuters news agency that surveillance had detected multiple launches of "Scud-type missiles" on Thursday morning. Mr Rasmussen said it was the "act of a desperate regime approaching collapse".

Authorities: 3 set deadly Ind. blast for insurance
Three people charged in a gas explosion that devastated an Indianapolis neighborhood deliberately set up the deadly blast to collect a big insurance payout, authorities said Friday.

Egypt holds second stage of vote on draft constitution
Egyptians have begun voting in a second stage of a constitutional referendum that has sparked weeks of unrest. Opponents of President Mohammed Morsi have held protests against the draft, saying it favours the Islamists now in power and betrays the revolution which overthrew Hosni Mubarak last year. Mr Morsi's supporters say the constitution will secure democracy.

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