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Published on July 31, 2012
SYRIAN REBELS VOW TO TURN ALEPPO INTO "REGIME'S GRAVE"
- The Syrian military has stepped up its campaign to drive rebels out of Aleppo, where fighters said they were holding firm, vowing to turn the country's largest city into the "regime's grave", Reuters reported.
Opposition activists denied a government declaration that its forces had recaptured the Salaheddine district, in southwest Aleppo, straddling the most obvious route for Syrian troop reinforcements coming from the south.
A Reuters reporter heard helicopters firing heavy machineguns over the eastern part of the city on Tuesday, July 31 for the first time in several days.
Hospitals and makeshift clinics in rebel-held eastern neighborhoods were filling up with casualties from a week of fighting in the city, a commercial hub drawn into the 16-month-long revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
"Some days we get around 30, 40 people, not including the bodies," said a young medic in one clinic. "A few days ago we got 30 injured and maybe 20 corpses, but half of those bodies were ripped to pieces. We can't figure out who they are."
The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 100 people, 73 of them civilians, were killed in Syria on Monday. It said five rebel fighters died during clashes with Syrian forces in Salaheddine.
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Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan met with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during a solemn reception in London organized by Queen Elizabeth II, Zhoghovurd paper reported citing RIA Novosti.
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During the reported period, prices for foodstuff (including alcoholic beverages and cigarettes) ...IRANIAN LEADER SLAMS WESTERN OIL SANCTIONS AS "RIDICULOUS MOVE"
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Two clouds of ...EUROZONE JOBLESS RATE HITS RECORD HIGH
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