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So they wait - for Obama
The graves had run into each other, mounds of red earth washed by the rain, blown by the wind.
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UN: Syria 'humanitarian calamity'
Syria's civil war has driven almost a third of the country's population from their homes, causing the humanitarian calamity of the century, says the United Nations.
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President in bind as he builds case
Why did US President Barack Obama delay planned air strikes on Syria after the chemical attack last month?
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Kerry and Hagel's big test
Amid signs in Washington of deep anxiety about unintended consequences and unforeseeable outcomes.
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Aussie heritage out of fashion
Shame' over colonial history is seeing valuable threads of the nation's story left to crumble into ruin.
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Sense of foreboding palpable as refugees flood neighbouring states
The lucky ones move in with relatives; the poorest sleep under bridges. Others find themselves crammed into the old Palestinian refugee camps of south Beirut.
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Obama tries persuading the sceptical on Syria
President Barack Obama, working to persuade sceptical lawmakers to endorse a US military intervention in civil war-wracked Syria, hosted two leading Capitol Hill foreign policy hawks for talks.