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Remember Syria's chemical weapons? Yes, those, the ones the Syrian regime agreed to give up after President Obama threatened to bomb. All of the "priority one" the most dangerous of those weapons, were supposed to be gone by December 31 last year. They're not.
Almost all of them -- more than 95% -- are still in Syria despite a commitment by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to get rid of his deadly arsenal. The deal to remove Syria's stock of WMD was the one tangible accomplishment of the Obama administration's approach to the Middle East's multiple crises. Now that deal looks to be failing, even as red flags also start flying along the path to a deal with Iran. Frida Ghitis It's hard to escape the impression that Iran and its close ally, Syria, are toying with the U.S.
A thriving and vibrant electoral democracy has been India's distinct and durable identity, long before it asserted itself as an economic, nuclear or information technology major. Over the past 63 years, the Election Commission of India (ECI) had delivered 15 elections to the Lok Sabha (the Lower House) and more than 350 elections to state legislative assemblies, facilitating peaceful, orderly and democratic transfer of power.
The statistics of today's Indian elections may be mind boggling, even if you look at them purely as numbers. There are around 780 million electors on the Electoral Roll of India, as of Jan 1, which is more than the population of both the North and South American continents taken together or all the countries of Europe or of Africa combined. The last elections to the Indian Parliament, held in 2009, could be described as the biggest humanly- managed event in the world.
Nearly 1,900 people have been killed in Syria since the Geneva talks between the government and the opposition began just over a week ago, it was reported on Friday, as the UN mediator admitted there had been "no progress to speak of" so far.
The casualty figures were published by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based pro-opposition group. It said at least 498 of the dead were civilians, 850 were fighters from mainstream or extremist rebel groups and 515 were on the government side.
An estimated 130,000 people have died since the conflict erupted nearly three years ago. Each side blamed the other for the impasse at the end of the first round of Geneva negotiations, with both insisting they would not shift position.
PTI: Seven inmates of a children's remand home in Jehangirabad area in Bhopal escaped after burrowing through a wall, police said. The incident took place last night. These seven children were sent to remand home on the charges of murder, attempt to murder and rape, police said.
Acting on the complaint of the remand home employees, police launched a hunt to nab them, though none of them has been caught so far.
Among these seven, three are from Bhopal, two from Vidisha and one each from Rajgarh and Raisen, police said. "Search is on to nab them. Howerver, none of them has been traced, till this evening," police said.
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