Syria's main opposition bloc urged the UN Security Council on Saturday to convene an emergency meeting to examine what it called an army massacre near Homs, where it said 110 people were killed.

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Cyprus police have summoned a 98-year-old and about 40 other elderly women to court to face gambling charges after raiding their weekly poker party.

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Heavy gunfire in Syria's flashpoint central city Homs killed 13 people on Monday in the Sunni district of Baba Amro, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement.

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Five civilians were among 18 people killed in Syria on Saturday, a day after the UN Human Rights Council urged tougher action against Damascus, condemning its 'gross violations' of human rights.

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At least 14 civilians and 17 security personnel were killed in clashes across Syria, with the flashpoint city of Homs turning into a battle zone, activists said on Monday.

Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of the ousted Libyan leader, said that her father was well and fighting on the ground, as she attacked the country's new rulers and called them 'traitors'.

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Muammar Gaddafi is “in excellent health and planning and organising Libya’s defence,” his spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told Syria's Arrai television channel.

At least 24 civilians were killed by security forces across Syria, including 10 after evening prayers on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramzan, a human rights activist said on Tuesday.

At least 45 people were killed on Sunday when the army launched an attack on the flashpoint protest city of Hama in central Syria, a human rights activist said.

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At least 38 protesters were killed by security forces during massive demonstrations on Friday across Syria, in one of the bloodiest days since pro-democracy protests erupted in mid-March, witnesses and activists told AFP by telephone.