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(AP) BEIRUT – Syrian troops rushed dozens of tanks and reinforcements Wednesday toward Aleppo, the country’s strategically vital commercial capital, in a bid to crush a rebel advance that has spread to wide swaths of the sprawling city. As five days of fighting in Aleppo intensified, and with rumors swirling of a final showdown in that city, neighboring Turkey tightened its borders but said refugees will be allowed through. “We are expecting a big attack on Aleppo,” Mohammed Saeed, an activist based in Aleppo, told The Associated Press. “People are worried they might face random shelling while fleeing.” U.N. chief: “Slaughter” in Syria must stopIs al Qaeda fighting in Syria?Official: Israel will act if militants raid Syrian chemical or biological weapons stocks The rebels have made stunning advances over the past week, but the battle for control of Syria, a geographic and political linchpin at the heart of the Middle East, is far from over. And the potential for wider, regional unrest is great. Israel’s foreign minister warned that his country will act immediately if it discovers Islamic militants such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah are raiding Syria’s chemical or biological weapons stocks. “For us, that’s a casus belli, a red line,” Avigdor Lieberman told Israel Radio. Israeli officials have reported a run on gas masks. Demand has almost doubled in the past few days, to 4,200 requests on Tuesday from...

(CBS/AP) SAN DIEGO – Comic-Con 2011 wrapped up Sunday after four days of comic books, costumes, celebrity appearances and TV and movie previews. A new look at the latest “Twilight” film, HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” the stars of “Cowboys & Aliens,” and Peter Jackson’s surprise appearance alongside Steven Spielberg were among the highlights of the 42nd annual pop-culture festival. Pictures: Comic-Con 2011Pictures: Scenes from Comic-Con 2011 More than 120,000 people attended the sold-out event at the San Diego Convention Center, which spilled over into downtown San Diego. Inside the convention center, comic books, toys and splashy displays touting upcoming games, movies and TV shows packed the exhibition floor while panels for various artists, programs and 증평출장샵 films continued nonstop in dozens of ballrooms and meeting halls. “This is a place for people who aren’t embarrassed to celebrate all this nerdy stuff,” Blair Herter, a host of the G4 Network’s pop-culture program, “Attack of the Show!” told the Assocaited Press. ”These people have a harder time being this excited about this stuff in their everyday lives, so this is just a giant well of acceptance we’re bathing...

(CBS News) UNITED NATIONS – Beyonce was breathtaking. No other way to describe the stunning performance at the General Assembly Hall of United Nations Headquarters in New York on Friday night, when she sang “I Was Here” in honor of humanitarian aid workers killed in the line of duty around the world to be broadcast on August 19th. “She was fantastic,” U.K. Ambassador to the U.N., Sir Mark Lyall Grant, said after the performance, which he attended with his daughter. “World Humanitarian Day is a chance to pay tribute to the commitment and courage of those who work in some of the world’s most dangerous places,” the ambassador 실전바둑이게임 told CBS News, “It’s fantastic that a world-acclaimed artist like Beyonce is helping to raise awareness for this important cause — she’s reminding us that we can all play a part in relieving suffering around the world.” It was on the same platform where Col. Muammar Qaddafi once rambled on for hours; Nikita Khrushchev pounded his shoe; Fidel Castro spoke for over three hours; and every U.S. president, since the U.N. was founded, has addressed diplomats. With the podium moved aside for a screen designed by filmmaker Ridley Scott, the world-renowned diva delivered a message of legacy with her ballad, “I Was Here,” written by Diane Warren about the personal drive to be remembered and to leave a “footprint.” Beyonce...

(CBS News) Parts of China have suffered unusually heavy rains. Beijing got the equivalent of six months’ rain in one day. Then came deadly flooding, and now, say critics, comes a torrent of propaganda. It was the worst flooding in 60 years, but a lot of Chinese think officials at first downplayed the death toll to minimize the bad news. Originally reported at 37, it suddenly changed after questions on the internet and was raised to 77, and some don’t believe that number either. There were other questions too: Did city officials do a bad job planning the drainage system in a high-end part of town with a lot of new skyscrapers? Instead of an answer, officials quashed the criticism. When one blogger said: “they only know how to turn on the tap of positive propaganda,” the post was quickly deleted by authorities. There are other questions about Beijing’s building boom beyond faults in the drainage system, mostly focused on the quality of so much going up so fast. “Even when people buy luxury condos in China, they joke that it’s not going to last very long because they haven’t been built to last,” said Patrick Chovanec, a professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and 안동출장마사지 Management in Beijing. The one area that had no flooding was ancient Beijing, around the Forbidden City, once home to emperors. Its...

(CBS/AP) LONDON – Computer security firm Kaspersky says it has discovered a new batch of malicious software linked to the infrastructure-wrecking Stuxnet virus. In a statement Thursday the Moscow-based company said it had found a virus dubbed “Gauss” which it said was aimed at stealing financial information from its mainly Middle Eastern victims. Kaspersky Lab ZAO said that the newly-discovered virus shared similarities in terms of structure and operation with Flame, a program aimed at vacuuming information from target computers. Flame in turn shared similarities with Stuxnet, a program experts believe was designed to sabotage Iran’s disputed nuclear program. Both pieces of malicious software have been attributed to the U.S. and Israeli governments. Kaspersky’s statement said that all three viruses likely came from the same “factory” or “factories.” In a “60 Minutes” broadcast in March, correspondent Steve Kroft reported that Stuxnet was first detected and isolated by a tiny company in Belarus after one of its clients in Iran complained about a software glitch in June of 2010. Within a month, a copy of the computer bug was being analyzed within a tight knit community of computer security experts, and it appeared to be the first salvo in a new era of warfare. In June, a new virus called “Flame”, was unleashed. It was a massive, data-slurping cyberweapon circulating in the Middle East, and computers in Iran appear to...