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Activist group: 144 dead across Syria

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BEIRUT — A Syr­ian activist group reported Mon­day that 144 peo­ple have been killed across the coun­try, scores of them in the embat­tled oppo­si­tion strong­hold of Homs by secu­rity forces as they tried to flee. A team from the Syr­ian arm of the Red Cross deliv­ered aid to one of the city’s most dan­ger­ous neigh­bor­hoods after days of try­ing to reach the area.

Emboldened by monitors, Syrians hold huge protests

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BEIRUT — In the largest protests Syria has seen in months, hun­dreds of thou­sands of peo­ple took to the streets Fri­day in a dis­play of defi­ance to show an Arab League observer mis­sion the strength of the oppo­si­tion movement.

Syrian forces open fire on protesters; 16 killed

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BEIRUT — Syr­ian secu­rity forces fired on thou­sands of pro­test­ers Fri­day, killing a teenage boy and at least 15 other civil­ians as accounts emerged of more indis­crim­i­nate killing and sum­mary exe­cu­tions by the auto­cratic regime of Pres­i­dent Bashar Assad, activists said.

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