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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10431

2 August 2011
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THE DAY IN POLITICS
(AE) EU/SYRIA: Further EU sanctions - Meeting of UN Security Council

Brussels, 01/08/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 1 August, the European Union decided to step up its sanctions against the Damascus regime and asked the Security Council of the United Nations to act to put an end to the violence, after the intervention of the Syrian army in Hama, which left over one hundred dead.

On Sunday 31 July, in a major intervention in the rebel cities of the country, the Syrian army and security forces killed 139 people, including 100 in Hama, according to a report...