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Lebanese clan claims it has kidnapped 20 Syrians

Syria regime jets bombard rebel-held border town

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Ecuador claims UK threatened to storm embassy to arrest Assange

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Israel, US and Britain sued by families of slain Iranian nuclear scientists

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