Mass Burials Held in Damascus Suburb Amid Army Crackdown -- New York Times
DARAYA, Syria — Mass burials in this Damascus suburb on Sunday showed the carnage of the past few days in gruesome detail: scores of bodies lined up on top of each other in long thin graves moist with mud.
A video of what activists described as the fifth grave to be filled showed two small children near the edge. Up close, in the field where there were more bodies than people to wash and prepare them for burial, the scent of decay swirled and gunshot wounds could be seen in the heads of many men.
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MIDDLE EAST
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ASIA
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Massive Typhoon Bolaven slamming Okinawa, heads for Koreas.
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AFRICA
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EUROPE
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Flaming roadblocks set off in west Mexico.
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Dissidents report a crackdown in Cuba.
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Calls to grant astronaut Neil Armstrong a state funeral.
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