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Arab League foreign ministers meet on Sunday to discuss whether to ask the U.N. to help their mission in Syria, which has failed to end a 10-month-old crackdown on unrest that has killed thousands. Qatar proposes inviting U.N. technicians and human rights experts to help Arab monitors judge whether Syria is honouring its pledge to [...]
Syria pressed on with a crackdown on dissent after Qatar’s premier suggested that United Nations assistance is needed to improve the Arab League’s monitoring of government compliance with a plan to end the violence. “This is the first time the Arab League is involved in sending monitors, and there are some mistakes,” Qatari Prime Minister [...]
U.S. authorities charged three Swiss bankers on Tuesday with helping wealthy Americans hide more than $1.2 billion in secret accounts abroad, the latest set of indictments in a crackdown on tax evasion. The bankers, who all live and work in Switzerland, allegedly conspired with U.S. taxpayers and others to hide the existence of Swiss bank [...]
Activists in Idlib say that Syrian army hid tanks as a team of Arab League observers visited the province. Arab League peace observers, inspecting hotspots across Syria, have called on the government to remove “immediately” snipers from rooftops of buildings, a source close to the delegation told dpa on Saturday. “The observers saw the snipers [...]
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