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(AP) TOLEMAIDA, Colombia – Their peace talks don’t begin until next month, and the Colombian government and the country’s main leftist rebel movement already have run into differences. Just hours after leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia proposed on Thursday that both sides observe a truce during the negotiations, President Juan Manuel Santos firmly rejected the idea. Santos said there would be no end to fighting until a peace accord is agreed on. He said Colombia’s military and police have been told to intensify offensive actions. “There’s not going to be any cease-fire. We will not give anything until we get the final agreement, and I want to make that very clear,” the president told reporters at a military base in central Colombia. Santos, who spoke after meeting with more than 100 generals and colonels, did not respond to questions. There was no immediate comment from the FARC rebels. Leaders of the movement said during a news conference in Cuba that their first item on the negotiations’ agenda would be to propose a truce in Colombia’s half-century of fighting that has killed tens of thousands. “We will propose a cease-fire the moment we sit down at the table,” said Mauricio Jaramillo, a spokesman and 온라인카지노 top FARC leader. “We are going to discuss it.” Before Santos rejected that idea, he said during a radio interview Thursday that...

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(CBS News) LONDON – He may be living in one of the poshest parts of London, but Julian Assange remains confined inside, a prisoner of his own making. Senior diplomatic sources told CBS News the WikiLeaks founder has been granted permission to remain indefinitely at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London “until a diplomatic solution can be reached.” They hesitated to use the word “welcome.” Special Section: WikiLeaksAssange boosts Ecuador leader’s anti-U.S. credU.K.: WikiLeaks’ Assange won’t be allowed to leave Assange has been holed up in the embassy since seeking refuge June 30. On Thursday, the Latin American country granted Assange “diplomatic asylum,” but the British government has repeated the threat that if Assange steps one foot off embassy grounds he will be arrested and extradited to Sweden. “Diplomatic” rather than “political” asylum seems a small change, but it’s an important one. British Foreign Secretary William Hague has insisted that Britain does not recognize the status of diplomatic asylum, nor is it an internationally accepted means of granting refuge. Embassy officials say no plan has been drawn up to assist Assange in getting past police officers to a plane out of Britain. The diplomatic sources told CBS News the main sticking point to negotiations is third-country extradition. Swedish police want to question Assange in Sweden over sexual assault allegations. Ecuadorean officials said there have been no assurances by the Swedes...

(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 states. In Geneva, a U.N. investigation said Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces and pro-government militiamen were responsible for war crimes during a May bloodbath in the village of Houla that killed more than 100 civilians, nearly half of them children. It also said rebels were blamed for war crimes in at least three other killings. The report by the U.N. Human Rights Council said the scale of the Houla carnage indicated “involvement at the highest levels” of Syria’s military and government. It is first time the U.N. has described events in Syria’s civil war as war crimes and could be used in possible future prosecution against Assad or others. The council also said the conflict is moving in increasingly “brutal” directions on both sides. Hotel used by U.N. observers rocked by explosion in Damascus, Syria’s capital cityPentagon: Iran training militiamen for AssadU.S. lifts sanctions on ex-Syria PM More in After the Arab Spring As the fighting deepens, so do the fears of it triggering unrest in fragile Lebanon, which is deeply divided between supporters and opponents of President Bashar...

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