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(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON – The Obama administration set new, largely symbolic, sanctions Friday on Syria’s state-run oil company and the Hezbollah militant group, moves designed to underscore Iran’s key role in propping up the Syrian regime over the span of its civil war. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the penalties against energy firm Sytrol come after it delivered $36 million worth of gasoline to Iran in April. At the same time, Tehran was “actively advising, supplying, and assisting the Syrian security forces and regime-backed militias that are carrying out gross human rights abuses against the Syrian people.” Meanwhile, the Treasury Department targeted Hezbollah for “training, advice and extensive logistical support to the government of Syria’s increasingly ruthless efforts to fight against the opposition.” It also blamed the Lebanese Shiite militant group for coordinating Iranian assistance to the Syrian government. Neither action will change Americans’ behavior much. Americans have been banned from doing business with Hezbollah since the U.S. declared the Lebanese Shiite militant group a foreign terrorist organization in the 1990s. Decades of U.S. sanctions against Syria have prevented energy trade between the two countries. Sytrol had mostly exported to the European Union, but the bloc declared an embargo against Syrian oil last year. Syrian gov’t forces appear to gain upper hand in battle for 온라인카지노 AleppoDiplomats: Algeria’s Brahimi could replace Annan as Syria envoyClashes rage in rebel bastions...

(CBS/AP) DAYTON, Ohio – Author Barbara Kingsolver, a leader in the literature of social change, will be the first recipient of the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. The award, previously known as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s lifetime achievement award, has been renamed in honor of the late Ambassador 놀이터 검증 사이트 U.N. Richard Holbrooke. First given in 2006, the prize honors authors whose works promote peace. It was inspired by the Dayton peace accords on Bosnia brokered by Holbrooke in 1995 negotiations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton in southwest Ohio. Founder Sharon Rab says the prize organization wanted to honor Holbrooke’s international role in seeking peace and his special importance to Dayton. The longtime U.S. diplomat died last December at age 69 following surgery on his torn aorta. Kingsolver, 56 will receive award on Nov. 13. The novelist and poet is best known for her books “The Poisonwood Bible,” a story of a missionary family in the Congo, and “The Lacuna” about a Mexican-American who runs afoul of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s. Kingsolver has won numerous writing awards and her “The Poisonwood Bible,” was on the Pulitzer Prize’s short...

(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON – The Obama administration set new, largely symbolic, sanctions Friday on Syria’s state-run oil company and the Hezbollah militant group, moves designed to underscore Iran’s key role in propping up the Syrian regime over the span of its civil war. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the penalties against energy firm Sytrol come after it delivered $36 million worth of gasoline to Iran in April. At the same time, Tehran was “actively advising, supplying, and assisting the Syrian security forces and regime-backed militias that are carrying out gross human rights abuses against the Syrian people.” Meanwhile, the Treasury Department targeted Hezbollah for “training, advice and extensive logistical support to the government of Syria’s increasingly ruthless efforts to fight against the opposition.” It also blamed the Lebanese Shiite militant group for coordinating Iranian assistance to the Syrian government. Neither action will change Americans’ behavior much. Americans have been banned from doing business with Hezbollah since the U.S. declared the Lebanese Shiite militant group a foreign terrorist organization in the 1990s. Decades of U.S. sanctions against Syria have prevented energy trade between the two countries. Sytrol had mostly exported to the European Union, but the bloc declared an embargo against Syrian oil last year. Syrian gov’t forces appear to gain upper hand in battle for AleppoDiplomats: Algeria’s Brahimi could replace Annan as Syria envoyClashes rage in rebel bastions of...