Wednesday, July 18, 2012

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UN schedules Wednesday vote on new Syria resolution, Russia and West at odds over sanctions

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia remained at loggerheads with the U.S. and its European allies ahead of a scheduled vote Wednesday afternoon on a new Syria resolution and there appeared to be little hope that the U.N.’s most powerful body would unite behind a plan to end the 17-month civil war in the Mideastern country.

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