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RT Meteor Video Shatters Records With 28 Million Views

RT’s footage of the Siberian meteor blast became the most watched video of the phenomenon on YouTube.

(MOSCOW RT) - The blast, which hit Russia’s Chelyabinsk region on the morning of February 15, became the most watched video event of all time with 138 million views.

It was the fastest video event ever to hit 100 million views, according to VideoMeasures, an online measurement company.

Some 1,200 Injured in Meteor Explosion in Central Russia

Residents in the region uploaded videos of a fireball cutting through the sky.

(MOSCOW Xinhua) - About 1,200 people have been known injured and many buildings damaged since a meteor exploded on Friday morning, raining fireballs over Russia's central Urals region, the Interior Ministry said.

Israeli Warplanes Violated Syrian Airspace; Israel, Qatar, France United to Oust President Bashar al-Assad

Israeli fighters entered Syria from Zabadani on the Lebanese border; the nearest point from Lebanon to the target location (Jimraya), around 25 km.

(ROME) - The Syrian General Command of the Army and Armed Forces said in his 30/01/2013 statement that:

- Israeli warplanes violated Syrian airspace on Wednesday dawn and bombarded directly a scientific research center...

Barring Medicines in Syria... US-led Sanctions Contribute to the Destruction of Syria`s Millenary History

Anger toward the US government is rife in Syria, over severe, illegal sanctions targeting civilians.

(DAMASCUS, Syria) - What a difference a week can make. The heaviest snow in Syria in a quarter-century, some claimed, last week’s storm even closed the main highway from Damascus to Beirut.

But that was then and now its spring in Damascus, or so it feels to those of us used to a New England January.

Three Syrian Peace Initiatives...and what you can do to help

We have no illusions. The task is not an easy one and there are many obstacles.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Later today, I will board a flight to Geneva to attend the Syrian International Conference for a Democratic Syria and a Civil State.

THE SUFFERING GRASSES Film Screening at Portland State University - January 24 at 7:00 pm

Panel discussion with Taghrid Khuri, Steve Nakana & performance with hip hop artist Omar Offendum follows.

(PORTLAND, OR) - A year and a half after the revolution in Syria began, activists struggling for freedom need support more than ever.

The Suffering Grasses is a film on Syria's troubled revolution, which conveys the situation in all of its complexity...

Human Rights Ambassador William Gomes Calls for Justice in Syria

I understand that there may be questions about how justice could affect prospects for a peace settlement in Syria.

(SALEM) - William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com had extensively shared his concern regarding widespread violations by Syrian government security forces and officials.

Gomes has concluded that government forces have committed crimes against humanity.

Shedding Crocodile Tears While Collaborating With US-Led Sanctions

Are the Arab League and Organization of Islamic Cooperation targeting Syrians?

(DAMASCUS, Syria Al Manar) - One powerful image from Damascus that has become seared into this observers mind these days is when I walk by a Western Union office. Most of them remain open despite the brutal US-led sanctions which in their pervasive effects target almost entirely the civilian population.

But all Western Union offices were closed last Thursday and Friday due to heavy snowfall, some say the deepest here for more than a quarter century. Still, some Syrians braved the extreme cold and could be seen huddled outside some branches, evidently in vain hope that they might open and their families might eat.

Military Correspondent Yves Debay Killed in Aleppo

Sadly, Debay is one of two journalists in Syria to have been killed within the last two days. Al Jazeera's Mohammed al-Masalmeh was also fatally injured.

(NEW YORK CPJ) - An international journalist was killed by a sniper while covering fighting in Aleppo in Syria on Thursday, according to local and international press reports.

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on all sides of the conflict to stop targeting journalists and allow them to report freely within the country.

Islamist Rebels for France: Terrorists in Mali, Friends in Syria!

France bombards the Islamist militants in Mali, while accusing the Syrian army of "committing a brutal aggression" when it’s defending the state on its land.

(DAMASCUS / ROME) - France finds itself committed to intervene in Mali TO PROTECT THE STATE against the Islamist fighters related to Al-Qaeda (WOW).

Yet it considers the same guys, the jihadists who are shouting Allah Akbar and fighting the "infidel regime" in Syria as "rebels for freedom and democracy"!