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02/04/2012 07:46 AMU.N. Security Council could vote Saturday on response to Syria Almost eleven months after protesters first flooded Syrian streets to demand regime change and true democratic freedoms, the U.N. Security Council could vote Saturday on a draft resolution that would pressure the government to stop a sustained, bloody crackdown on dissidents. 
02/04/2012 03:56 AMU.N. Security Council to meet on Syria as deaths mount More than 200 people were reported killed in Syria, hours before the U.N. Security Council was scheduled to meet and likely vote on a draft resolution intended to pressure the government there to end its months-long crackdown on demonstrators, diplomats said. 
02/03/2012 09:42 PMSamsung said it didn't make ad that angered Iranians Senior Iranian lawmakers are considering a boycott of Samsung, the South Korean electronics and appliance manufacturer, because of a controversial Israeli ad that pokes fun at the nuclear crisis, state-run Press TV of Iran said Friday. 
02/03/2012 05:13 PMIran's leader: War would be detrimental to U.S. The supreme leader of Iran issued a blunt warning Friday that war would be detrimental to the United States -- and that Iran is ready to help anyone who confronts "cancerous" Israel. 
02/03/2012 05:00 PMBold, exhilarating stands for freedom inside Syria Abu Marwan jumps into the back of the small white van. He and his friend, Abu Omar, are heading to a grass-roots demonstration in the Syrian capital to protest the government of President Bashar al-Assad. 
02/03/2012 12:57 PMFilm director shares sights and sounds of Beirut's 'Little Armenia' Film director Nigol Bezjian was born in Syria, raised in Lebanon and studied in the United States, but nowhere does he feel more at home than in Little Armenia. 
02/03/2012 06:50 AMSecurity Council talks disband without agreement on Syria A Security Council meeting ended Thursday evening with no agreement on a draft resolution intended to pressure Syria to end its months-long crackdown on anti-government demonstrators. 
02/02/2012 11:00 PMU.N.: Aid workers kidnapped in Yemen released Seven aid workers who were kidnapped in Yemen have been released, the United Nations said in a statement Thursday. 
02/02/2012 02:26 PMProtesters pelt U.N. chief's vehicle with shoes in Gaza The convoy of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was pelted with shoes by Palestinians in Gaza Thursday, according to witnesses and a U.N. official. 
02/02/2012 12:04 PMU.N. nuclear inspectors returning to Tehran The United Nations nuclear monitors plan to return to Iran at the end of the month after a positive assessment from both sides of the latest visit. 
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