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France said yesterday it would host an international meeting on Syria in ­January, and the lifting of sanctions and reconstruction aid would be conditional on clear political and security commitments by the transitional authority.

This is the moment when surgeons from the International Medical Corps in Gaza carry out their first procedure in a ­special operating theatre donated by a new Irish charity.

After airing an emotional segment showing a man supposedly freed from a Syrian prison after spending three months in the dark, CNN now says it&s investigating whether he gave a &false identity& after a fact-checking group accused him of being a torturer in Bashar al-Assad&s regime.