Mes: septiembre 2019

(CBS/AP) MOSCOW – Russia will hold talks with two Syrian opposition groups and with U.N. envoy Kofi Annan later this month, a Russian news agency reported after a weekend of stalled efforts to stop the bloodshed in Syria. Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov was quoted by the RIA Novosti agency as saying Syrian opposition leader Michel Kilo will arrive later this week, while Abdulbaset Sieda, the new head of the Syrian National Council, another opposition group, will visit Moscow after July 10. An unnamed Russian diplomat also told RIA that Annan is expected in Moscow by mid-July. The talks are “important because we have to do our best to implement Kofi Annan’s plan and decisions of the Geneva conference” held Saturday, Bogdanov was quoted as saying. More in After the Arab Spring “The Annan peace plan becomes significantly more feasible if the Russians engage with the Syrian opposition,” reports CBS News’ Pamela Falk, from the U.N., “because it will give Russia the possibility of maintaining a relationship with a post-Assad government, and the dynamics change from an East-West conflict to international support of a transition government.” Latest Syria peace plan falls flatMood pessimistic at Geneva meeting on SyriaRussia: No backing for any plan that calls for Syria’s Assad to step down Russia is Syria’s most important ally, protector and supplier of arms. Diplomatic hopes have rested on persuading Russia...

(CBS/AP) For those of us who can’t get enough of living vicariously, there’s “Big Brother.” The CBS show began its 13th season Thursday night as eight new contestants and three veterans converged in the house. Pictures: Big Brother 12 Yet the audience didn’t get to eavesdrop on everything that happened during the first night of the summer-long competition. The edited hour-long premiere condensed what actually happened over the course of about six hours last Saturday when the 14 houseguests moved into the camera-filled house on a soundstage on the CBS Studio City lot. (The show’s live Internet feeds don’t broadcast what happens inside the house until after the show debuts.) Here’s some of what you didn’t see on TV: — Outside the door to the house, cocktail waitress Rachel Reilly and graduate student Brendon Villegas, who met last summer during season 12 and later became engaged, shared a quiet moment together as they waited to enter the not-so-private abode. “Don’t be nervous,” Brendon told her as they stood outside the door. “I’m not nervous,” Rachel retorted. — Among the declarations sputtered by outspoken season-eight winner Richard “Evel Dick” Donato after he returned to the house with his estranged daughter Danielle Donato was that he was proud of CBS for casting three black contestants. He also told the other houseguests that the producers only called him on the previous Sunday...

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