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World
In Brief
MADRID
Gay Marriage Upheld
Spain’s Constitutional Court upheld
the legality of the country’s gay marriage
law Tuesday, rejecting an appeal
that marriage is the union of a man and
woman. In 2005, Spain became the third
country to allow gay marriage. (AP)
TEHRAN, IRAN
Airfares Up 70 Percent
Iranian local airlines increased their airfares
by up to 70 percent amid Western
sanctions, the official IRNA news agency
reported Tuesday. Officials authorized
the move to compensate for the high
price of aircraft fuel, the report said. (AP)
Envoy: Future of Syria at Risk
Official warns that
country could end
up like Somalia
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The U.N.-Arab League envoy for
Syria warned Tuesday that the
country could become another
Somalia — where al-Qaeda-linked
militants and warlords battled
for decades after the ouster of a
dictator — if the civil war is not
ended soon.
Increased violence Tuesday
aroused new concern about the
faltering diplomatic efforts to try
to end the conflict.
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Battles between regime forces and Syrian rebels left more than
140 people dead across Syria on Tuesday, while the brother of Syria’s parliament
speaker was gunned down in Damascus — the latest victim of a wave of
assassinations targeting high-ranking supporters of President Bashar Assad’s
regime. More than 36,000 people have perished in the war, activists say. (AP)
There has been no sign that
embattled Syrian President Bashar
Assad is willing to step down as
part of a peaceful transition. Assad
has vowed to crush the nearly
20-month-old rebellion.
U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar
Brahimi, who, like his predecessor
Kofi Annan, has been unable to
put an end to the conflict, warned
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The number of Syrian fighter pilots,
or 100 to 120 people, carrying out
bombing raids, Syrian Maj. Gen.
Mohammed Fare, who defected,
said Tuesday. He said the military
cannot rely on the others. (AP)
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the civil war could spiral into new
levels of chaos.
“I believe that if the crisis is not
solved … there will be the danger
of Somalization,” Brahimi said in
remarks published Tuesday in the
pan-Arab daily Al Hayat.
Somalia has been mired in conflict
for more than two decades after
warlords overthrew the nation’s
longtime dictator in 1991 and turned
on one another. The government,
backed by African Union troops,
is battling extremists.
Syria, by comparison, has
always had a strong central government,
and the regime still maintains
a grip on many parts of the
country. ZEINA KARAM (AP)
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