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SYRIAN ENVOY MEETS ASSAD IN DAMASCUS

International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said after talks with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad yesterday that the escalating conflict in the country posed a global threat.

Activists say 27,000 people have been killed in the 18-month-old uprising against Assad.

Just yesterday, 20 bodies, including a woman's, were found by residents in a district of Damascus that had been overrun by Assad's troops, a watchdog said.

It was the veteran Algerian diplomat's first meeting with the Syrian leader since he replaced Kofi Annan as mediator two weeks ago, taking on a mission that he described as "nearly impossible".

The revolt started as a mainly peaceful street campaign for reform but has become a bloody insurgency that is deepening sectarian rifts in the Middle East.

Activists say 160 people, mostly civilians, were killed on Friday.

 

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