President Obama is on the right track with Monday's executive order,
but the United States needs to get tougher on the global digital arms
race.
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Doctors and patients in Syria fear reprisals, aid group says
People wounded in the crackdown on dissent in Syria, as well as
medical personnel trying to treat them, risk arrest and even torture,
the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said Tuesday.
MSF doctors, after failing to get permission to work in the country,
entered clandestinely and managed to reach the rebel strongholds of Homs
and Edleb, where "patients and medical personnel are hunted down and
run the risk of being arrested and tortured," MSF official Dounia
Dekhili told AFP.
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Jihadist group denies claiming Damascus bombings
Al-Nusra Front, an Islamist group unknown before the Syrian revolt, has denied in a statement that it had
claimed responsibility for Damascus
bombings last week that killed 55 people.
"Many
news agencies, news websites, and satellite channels... have
attributed" the Damascus bombings on Thursday targeting the security
services "to Al-Nusra Front, based on a video posted on YouTube," said
the statement dated May 13.
"But we say, this video as well as the statement appearing in it are
fabricated and... full of errors," the group said in the statement
published on jihadist forums.
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Five killed in Syria violence, activists say
A huge blast ripped through the Syrian coastal city of Banyas during
the night, killing four people, while a six-year-old girl died in
Damascus province, a monitoring group said on Tuesday.
"A woman and three young men were killed" in a powerful explosion in
the south of Banyas, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights said in a statement.
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