Posts Tagged Political and civil unrest

Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons

This April 24, 2013 photo released by Human Rights Watch shows a torture device abandoned on the floor of a State Security building, in Raqqa, Syria. Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. (AP Photo/Bryan Denton for Human Rights Watch)

BEIRUT (AP) — Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday.

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Syria ex-minister leads rebuilding plan

In this picture taken on Friday May 10, 2013, Syrian economist Abdullah al-Dardari, a chief economist at the Beirut-based U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and a former deputy prime minister in President Bashar Assad's government, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, In Beirut, Lebanon. Al-Dardari tells The Associated Press in a rare interview that his six-member expert team has been overwhelmed with requests for the reconstruction plan to support the Kerry-Lavrov initiative on the off chance it would succeed. A group of economists led by one of Syria's top reformists are feverishly drawing up a comprehensive post-war reconstruction plan, even as the country's civil war rages on with no apparent end in sight. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

BEIRUT (AP) — A six-member U.N. team led by a former Syrian planning minister is drawing up a comprehensive postwar reconstruction plan even as the country’s civil war rages on with no apparent end in sight.

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PSG City Hall celebrations scrapped after violence

Paris Saint Germain's supporters face riot police officers during clashes after the celebration of PSG's French League title, in Paris, Monday, May 13, 2013. Paris Saint-Germain clinched its first French league title since 1994 by defeating Lyon 1-0 on Sunday. PSG has now an unassailable seven-point lead at the top of the standings. With just two rounds left, second-place Marseille can no longer catch its fierce rival. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

PARIS (AP) — A celebration of Paris Saint-Germain’s first league title since 1994 was canceled Tuesday, a day after rioting during festivities in the French capital led to 21 arrests and injuries to more than 30 people.

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