Having reclaimed the town of Qusair -- a key transit point in western central Syria which the rebels had relied on to move arms and other supplies up from the south into the country's north - President Assad's forces have begun a push north toward Aleppo.

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As I say, I think public opinion is waking up to the crisis of leadership in the Catholic Church in England and Wales, which is in such sharp contrast to the sure-footed statesmanship of Pope Benedict XVI.

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As someone who has a deep interest in military affairs, Hutton's appointment was welcomed by the military which, having two wars to fight at once in Iraq and Afghanistan, thought the least the Labour government could do was to give them a full-time defence secretary.