Syrian government scuttles truce plan with new demands

Monday, April 9, 2012

BEIRUT -- A U.N.-brokered plan to stop the bloodshed in Syria effectively collapsed Sunday after President Bashar Assad's government raised new, last-minute demands that the country's largest rebel group swiftly rejected.

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