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U.S. hails creation of new Syrian exile opposition group

Political opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad established a new organization Sunday and elected an activist Muslim cleric to lead it, a move that could open the spigot of international humanitarian aid to Syria. But questions remained on when and if a step-up of military aid will follow. | 11/11/12 19:34:38 By - By Roy Gutman

Anti-Assad Syria National Council picks a Christian to be its new leader

Syria’s biggest political opposition bloc Friday elected a Christian, George Sabra, as president, a move Sabra said showed that the Muslim-majority nation will not allow its national uprising to descend into sectarian war. | 11/09/12 20:08:35 By - By Roy Gutman

U.S. diplomat meets with Syrian opposition leaders Clinton blasted

A top U.S. diplomat met into the wee hours Wednesday with leaders of the Syrian National Council to discuss future coordination with them, just a week after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had chastised them as being out of touch with the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad and said the United State no longer would recognize the council as a key player in the rebellion. | 11/07/12 18:21:09 By - By Roy Gutman

Power is about to change hands in China, but likely impact is unknown

If all goes according to plan, in about two weeks a small, secretive group comprising some of the world’s most powerful leaders will walk across a red carpet in downtown Beijing. The members of the Chinese Communist Party’s new politburo standing committee almost certainly will make their first public group appearance lined up and wearing uniformly dark suits, tepid smiles and dyed black hair. | 11/05/12 00:00:00 By - By Tom Lasseter

U.S. move to de-recognize Syrian opposition group baffles allies

The Obama administration’s decision to drop its recognition of the Syrian National Council as the leading Syrian opposition group and propose creating a new umbrella organization surprised and puzzled close U.S. allies, diplomats said Friday. | 11/02/12 18:39:49 By - By Roy Gutman

Syrian opposition group tells U.S. to stay out of internal politics

A U.S. decision to de-recognize a Syrian exile umbrella group and to propose a new political forum – and even who should be on it – drew an angry response from opposition figures Thursday, who charged that Washington was trying to impose its will on them while passively watching the bombardment of cities and towns by the Assad regime. | 11/01/12 16:01:46 By - By Roy Gutman

Experts divided on number of Syrians in need of shelter, food

Syria’s humanitarian crisis is rapidly worsening and may be much larger than the United Nations. and major governments are describing it, according to diplomats and officials of U.N. organizations. | 10/29/12 16:16:27 By - By Roy Gutman

Inside Turkey’s Kurdish insurgency: No sex, no swearing, no Quran

Volunteers who join the Kurdish insurgency against Turkey must abandon Islamic religious practice and must forego “emotional ties” to anyone outside the group, as well as swear words and sex, or face trial and prison, according to a Syrian-born Kurd who defected from the group to Turkey over the summer. | 10/25/12 15:47:25 By - By Roy Gutman

Pope Benedict pledges respect for Native American culture at canonization of Kateri, 6 others

Tens of thousands of pilgrims, including Native Americans in tribal regalia, Hawaiians with leis and Bavarians in lederhosen, packed St. Peter’s Square on Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI canonized seven new saints, one a Mohawk who has long been an icon for Indians throughout the United States and Canada. | 10/21/12 16:53:38 By - By Roy Gutman

Church changes of rules played key role in sainthood for Kateri Tekakwitha

In the three-plus centuries since the death of Kateri Tekakwitha, Native Americans and many others often have pleaded with the Vatican to saint her. | 10/20/12 16:12:44 By - By Roy Gutman

For church, St. Kateri canonization is recognition of long-troubled relationship with Native peoples

The Roman Catholic Church, whose missions to convert the natives of North America to Christianity go back nearly four centuries, opens a new chapter in its relations with the indigenous peoples of the continent Sunday when it canonizes a 17th century Mohawk Indian as the first Native American saint. | 10/20/12 12:42:49 By - By Roy Gutman

Declared ‘miracle’ by Catholic Church, Jake Finkbonner takes in stride his role in Kateri’s sainthood

The seventh-grader whose recovery from a deadly bacterial infection was deemed a miracle by the Roman Catholic Church, cementing the decision to name the first Native American saint, doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about it at his parochial school in Bellingham, Wash. | 10/18/12 17:28:59 By - By Roy Gutman

Celebration begins for first Native American to be sainted

The Roman Catholic Church began final preparations Wednesday for what will be a watershed event in the church’s relationship with Native American cultures, the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk Indian who lived in the 17th century, who on Sunday will become the church’s first Native American saint. | 10/17/12 18:34:07 By - By Roy Gutman

Diplomats see Kurds, not Assad, as likely target of Turkish border buildup

Turkish tanks are deployed on hilltops overlooking Syria and additional combat aircraft have been moved to bases close to that war-torn country in an escalation that began Oct. 3, when a Syrian artillery round landed in the border town of Akcakale, killing five Turkish civilians. | 10/16/12 17:32:37 By - By Roy Gutman

Turkey says cargo aboard Syria-bound plane violated rules, but won’t say what was found

Turkey on Thursday said cargo aboard a Syrian aircraft that was forced down over Turkey on a flight from Moscow to Damascus violated international rules about transporting munitions aboard civilian aircraft. | 10/11/12 17:36:34 By - By Roy Gutman

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