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AP RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to work out a unified strategy on the crisis in Syria in talks with Saudi officials stanley en mexico on Friday as further violence stymied U.N. efforts to convince Damascus to implement a cease-fire.Clinton s talks with Saudi King Abdullah and other officials come ahead of a 60-nation gathering of the Friends of the Syrian People in Istanbul over the weekend aimed at finding ways to aid Syria s opposition. The U.S. is hoping to help unify the splintered opposition s ranks while pushing for humanitarian aid and further isolation of Assad s regime.Saudi Arabia, along with fellow Gulf nation Qatar, has called for a more aggressive approach, including arming the rebels and carving out a safe haven inside Syria from which the opposition can operate. stanley cup Special Section: The Arab SpringAnnan urges Syrian regime to lay down arms firstAssad talks peace, demands rebels halt violenceInternational opponents of Assad are struggling to pin down a strategy on Syria as a peace plan put forward by U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has so far failed to get off the ground. Syria has accepted the six-point plan, which includes a call for it to implement a cease-fire, but so far there has been no halt in fighting, and the opposition suspects Assad has no intention of stopping his gourde stanley crackdown and is only playing for time. Assad said Thursday that he wants the plan to succeed, but insisted th
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Thursday signed into law a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections that includes new restrictions on voting by mail and gives the legislature greater control over how elections are run.Among other things, the law requires a photo ID in order to vote absentee by mail, after more than 1.3 million Georgia voters used that option during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also cuts the t stanley becher ime people have to request an absentee ballot and limits where ballot drop boxes can be placed and when they can be accessed.Democrats and voting rights groups say the law will disproportionately disenfranchise voters of color. It is part of a wave of GOP-backed election billsintroduced in states around the nation after former President Trump stoked false claims that fraud led to his 2020 election defeat. President Joe Biden called such GOP efforts un-American and sick during a news conference Thursday. And a group of voter mobilization groups filed a lawsuit late Thursday in federal court in Atlanta challengin stanley flask g the stanley cup new law.The Republican changes to voting law in Georgia follows record-breaking turnout that led to Democratic victories in the presidential contest and two U.S. Senate runoffs in the once reliably red state. After the November election last year, I knew, like so many of you, that significant reforms to our state elections were needed, said Kemp, who drew Trump s ire after certifying Biden s vict Wwvz Obama May Not Be Able To Keep $1.4M Nobel Cash
AP RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to work out a unified strategy on the crisis in Syria in talks with Saudi officials stanley en mexico on Friday as further violence stymied U.N. efforts to convince Damascus to implement a cease-fire.Clinton s talks with Saudi King Abdullah and other officials come ahead of a 60-nation gathering of the Friends of the Syrian People in Istanbul over the weekend aimed at finding ways to aid Syria s opposition. The U.S. is hoping to help unify the splintered opposition s ranks while pushing for humanitarian aid and further isolation of Assad s regime.Saudi Arabia, along with fellow Gulf nation Qatar, has called for a more aggressive approach, including arming the rebels and carving out a safe haven inside Syria from which the opposition can operate. stanley cup Special Section: The Arab SpringAnnan urges Syrian regime to lay down arms firstAssad talks peace, demands rebels halt violenceInternational opponents of Assad are struggling to pin down a strategy on Syria as a peace plan put forward by U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has so far failed to get off the ground. Syria has accepted the six-point plan, which includes a call for it to implement a cease-fire, but so far there has been no halt in fighting, and the opposition suspects Assad has no intention of stopping his gourde stanley crackdown and is only playing for time. Assad said Thursday that he wants the plan to succeed, but insisted th