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(AP) BEIRUT – Armed Shiite clansmen in Lebanon said Wednesday they had captured more than 20 Syrians and will hold them until one of their relatives seized by rebels inside Syria is freed. The tensions were a stark reminder of how easily Syria’s civil war could spill over to neighboring...

(AP) HONG KONG – The Hong Kong government calls it national education. But parents, teachers and pupils in the former British colony call it “brainwashing” and fear it’s a ploy by Beijing authorities to indoctrinate the city’s young into unquestioning support of China’s Communist Party. Plans by the government to introduce the classes have triggered mass protests and hunger strikes, the latest sign of the widening gulf between Beijing and the freewheeling semi-independent southern Chinese financial center, 15 years after Britain handed it back to China. The dispute deepened as classes started this week, with activists including a handful of hunger-strikers camping out in front of Hong Kong government headquarters in a bid to force officials to drop plans to introduce the subject in primary and secondary schools. They’ve been joined each evening by thousands of protesters wearing black. A local TV station fanned the flames when it called the activists a “destructive faction” controlled by London and Washington. The rising tensions forced the city’s Beijing-backed leader, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, to call off his trip to a high-profile Asia-Pacific summit this weekend in Vladivostok, Russia. The protesters are afraid of what they see as underhanded attempts to indoctrinate the city’s next generation with Beijing-style nationalist education classes used in schools all over China to inculcate support for 루비바둑이주소 the Communist government. Many believe Leung, who became the city’s...

(CBS/AP) TORONTO – Canada has shut its embassy in Tehran, severed diplomatic relations and ordered Iranian diplomats in Canada to leave, accusing the Islamic Republic of being the most significant threat to world peace. The surprise action reinforces the Conservative government’s close ties with Israel but also removes some of Washington’s eyes and ears inside the Iranian capital. The move also underscores the widening gaps between Western countries’ attempts to isolate and punish Iran over its nuclear program and Tehran’s efforts to forge closer ties with energy-hungry Asian trading partners such as India and 배터리바둑이사이트 Pakistan to counter Western sanctions. Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said that the embassy in Tehran would close immediately and Iranian diplomats in Canada have been given five days to leave. A spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast, called Canada’s decision “hasty and extreme” and said that Iran would soon respond, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. U.S., Israeli clocks on Iran action “ticking at different pace”Iraq demands evidence from U.S. of weapons shipments to SyriaIranian navy aims to sail off U.S. shoresIsraeli leader demands “clear red line” on Iran Baird said Canada was officially designating Iran a state sponsor of “terrorism” and gave a long list of reasons for Canada’s decision, including Tehran’s support for Syria’s embattled President Bashar Assad in that country’s civil war. A note in Persian posted on...