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UNITED NATIONS â€"  The U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that he hopes a temporary cease-fire in Syria this weekend can break the cycle of violence and allow space for a political transition to start, diplomats said following a closed-door meeting.

Lakhdar Brahimi warned that another failure would lead to a worsening of the conflict and spillover to other countries.

Brahimi said by videoconference from Cairo that a cease-fire for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday could allow humanitarian aid to be delivered, especially to Aleppo, Homs and Idlib.

Brahimi expects Syria to announce its support Thursday, and he said unambiguous and unanimous support from the Security Council, which is divided over Syria, is indispensable.

The meeting ended with the Security Council issuing a press statement supporting Brahimi's efforts and calling on "all regional and international actors to support it and use their influence on all parties concerned to facilitate the cessation of violence."

The statement also called for full and unimpeded access for humanitarian aid during the cease-fire and underscored the need to launch a Syrian-led democratic transition.

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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has carried out air strikes over Gaza City, killing at least three militants and injuring several other people.

It comes after a night of rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel which injured at least three people.

Two large explosions were also heard in Gaza on Wednesday morning.

On Tuesday, an Israeli soldier was seriously injured by a bomb blast near the Gaza border fence. The previous day two militants died in an air strike.

One of the militants was a member of Hamas, the Islamist movement which governs Gaza. The other was from the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).

The IDF said more than 50 rockets and mortar had been fired into Israel overnight, hitting at least one house. A number of the missiles were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system.

Israeli media said the three injured people were foreign workers.

Hamas has in the past tried to reign in rocket fire from other militants groups, but was involved in the latest firing, along with the PRC.

The BBC's Jon Donnison in Gaza City says Hamas is under public pressure to be seen to be resisting Israel, especially if its members or civilians are killed.

Schools on either side of the border have been closed amid fears of further armed exchanges.

The violence comes only a day after the emir of Qatar became the first foreign head of state to visit Gaza since Hamas took power in 2007.

Our correspondent says neither Hamas nor Israel are thought to want a major escalation of conflict.

Following previous rounds of violence it has been the Egyptian government that has intervened to try and mediate a truce, he adds, but such ceasefires though do not usually hold for long.

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United Nations Syria envoy Brahimi said both the Syrian government and rebels agreed to a cease-fire for Eid al-Adha, but major disagreements could foil its chances of success.

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United Nations special envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said today that the government agreed to a cease-fire over the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, but Syrian officials almost immediately dismissed his statement, claiming that it was still considering the proposal. 

There are high stakes for the potential cease-fire, which is currently the only proposal on the table for ending the 19-month conflict that has killed between 20,000 and 34,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more. But there seems to be little optimism that the three- or four-day break in violence will bring about a substantial change.

A cease-fire agreement in April (described as “so fragile it could collapse with a single gunshot,” reported the Associated Press at the time) failed within days, with both rebels and the Army accusing one another of breaking the agreement. 

"After the visit I made to Damascus, there is agreement from the Syrian government for a cease-fire during the Eid," Mr. Brahimi told a news conference at the Cairo-based Arab League. Rebel groups have also agreed to the truce “in principle," Reuters reports.

However, an hour after Brahimi's announcement, the Syrian government said it was still "studying" the proposal and would announce its decision tomorrow. 

However, rebel sources earlier told the news agency there was “little point if it could not be monitored and enforced,” according to a separate Reuters report, and Brahimi’s plan didn’t note the presence of international observers to monitor the cease-fire, according to the first report. 

"If this humble initiative succeeds, we hope that we can build on it in order to discuss a longer and more effective cease-fire, and this has to be part of a comprehensive political process," Brahimi said.

Brahimi's announcement follows another bloody day in Syria. One of the few bakeries still operating in Aleppo was shelled yesterday, as about 100 people waited in line for bread, reports the Los Angeles Times. An estimated 20 people were killed and another 50 wounded in the blast in the Masaken Hanano neighborhood.

This was the third day in a row that the opposition-held neighborhood came under Army shelling. Abu al-Hasan, an activist from an Aleppo suburb, told The New York Times that residents in the area were too scared to leave their homes the past few days because of the intense shelling but “finally took the risk in order to buy food for Eid al-Adha,” the widely celebrated holiday that starts at the end of the week. The N.Y. Times notes how important bakeries have become in the three-month battle over Aleppo, Syria’s largest city:

…[B]akeries in rebel-held areas of Aleppo have emerged as vitally important resources that are clearly potential targets for Syrian forces seeking to starve the insurgents and their sympathizers into submission. Many of the bakeries are run by the insurgents, who have learned how to bake bread as part of the war effort.

Nearly a dozen bakeries have been targeted in Aleppo since fighting broke out there. Abu Firas, a spokesman for the Revolutionary Council for Aleppo and its suburbs, told the L.A. Times that the Assad regime has targeted bakeries because it wants “life to stop.”

"They are directly targeting the bakeries because many people gather there. Why are they shelling it? There aren't any Free Syrian Army fighters," Abu Firas said, referring to the main rebel fighting force, also known as the FSA.

The Syrian Army is relying more and more on air strikes as it has lost territory to rebel groups.

"Some of the bombs were so big they sucked in the air and everything crashes down, even four-story buildings. We used to have one or two rockets a day, now for the past 10 days it has become constant, we run from one shelter to another. They drop a few bombs and it's like a massacre," a 20-year-old refugee named Nabil told Reuters at a camp in the Syrian town of Atimah, which overlooks the Turkish border.

Bakeries aren’t the only targets. The BBC reports from the town of Marea near the Turkish border, about 20 miles north of Aleppo, that funeral processions, the weekly market, and other quotidian activities seem just as likely to be targeted by bombs.

Almost everyone we meet has lost someone to the enemy in the sky â€" here, a boy was shot dead from the air as he rode his motor bike â€" there, a group of teenage lads were blown to pieces by a bomb dropped from a MiG fighter as they loaded potatoes onto a truck.

There seems to be no object to the random bombing, other than to sow terror.

"It's revenge," says Yasser al-Haji, a businessman from Marea who moved abroad, then returned last year to join the revolution. "Marea was one of first cities to demonstrate.

"It's an economic war, too. Above all, they want to humiliate us for rising up against the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad," he adds.

The bakery hit yesterday in Aleppo was housed in a large warehouse, according to Abu al-Hasan who spoke to the N.Y. Times. He says it’s actually unclear whether the bakery was the target.

“The problem is those kinds of missiles are not guided to their intended targets,” he said. “They’re not precise. They fall on random buildings.”

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees reports that there are now more than 358,000 Syrian refugees in the region, according to the L.A. Times. Last week alone more than 5,500 Syrians registered with UNHCR.

“The longer Syrians remain in exile, the more likely they are to seek help as their savings are depleted. Many refugees fled home with few resources because work has been disrupted for more than a year in some areas of Syria,” the LA Times reports.

With a potential cease-fire on the horizon, many are speculating about the future of Syria and President Bashar al-Assad. James Van de Velde, a lecturer at the Center for Advanced Studies at Johns Hopkins University writes in a commentary for The Jerusalem Post that

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By Oliver Holmes and Shaimaa Fayed

BEIRUT/CAIRO | Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:37am EDT

BEIRUT/CAIRO (Reuters) - International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Wednesday the Syrian government had agreed to a ceasefire in the war with rebels during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.

It was also not clear whether the insurgents would commit to a truce. Rebel sources had earlier told Reuters there was little point if it could not be monitored or enforced. Brahimi's initiative did not include plans for international observers to monitor a halt to hostilities.

As Brahimi spoke in Cairo, Syrian warplanes were carrying out bombing raids on the strategic northern town of Maarat al-Numan and nearby villages while insurgents surrounded an army base to its east, an activist monitor said.

Brahimi, the joint U.N.-Arab League special envoy, had crisscrossed the Middle East to push the different sides and their international backers to agree to a truce in the 19-month-old conflict - an effort that included talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus at the weekend.

"After the visit I made to Damascus, there is agreement from the Syrian government for a ceasefire during the Eid," Brahimi told a news conference at the Cairo-based Arab League.

The holiday starts on Thursday and lasts three or four days. Brahimi did not specify the precise time period for a truce.

A previous ceasefire arrangement in April collapsed within days with both sides accusing the other of breaking it.

Whether a ceasefire would be embraced shortly by either side was in question given a battle with huge strategic ramifications being waged in the northwest, with government warplanes striking Maarat al-Numan and nearby villages.

Five people from one family, including a child and a woman, were killed in the air strikes on Wednesday, according to Rami Abdelrahman, head of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Maarat al-Numan has fallen to Assad's opponents, effectively cutting the main north-south highway, a strategic route for Assad to move troops from the capital Damascus to Aleppo, Syria's largest city where rebels have taken a foothold.

But without control of the nearby Wadi al-Daif military base, their grip over the road is tenuous. Its capture would be a significant step towards creating a "safe zone" allowing them to focus forces on Assad's strongholds in southern Syria.

The rebels say the ferocity of counter-attacks by government forces shows how important holding the base is to the president's military strategy.

Opposition activist footage on Wednesday showed a column of grey smoke rising after a bomb hit the village of Deir al-Sharqi, a few kilometers (miles) south of the base.

REFUGEES FLEE BOMBARDMENTS

Meanwhile, hundreds of Syrian refugees have poured into a makeshift refugee camp at Atimah overlooking the Turkish border, fleeing a week of what they said were the most intense army bombardments since the uprising began.

"Some of the bombs were so big they sucked in the air and everything crashes down, even four-storey buildings. We used to have one or two rockets a day, now for the past 10 days it has become constant, we run from one shelter to another. They drop a few bombs and it's like a massacre," one refugee, a 20-year-old named Nabil, told Reuters at the camp.

The army has lost swathes of territory in recent months and relies on air power and heavy artillery to push back the rebels fighting to topple Assad. Over 32,000 people have been killed in the conflict, which began with peaceful pro-democracy protests before descending into civil war as repression increased.

Human Rights Watch said the Syrian air force had increased its use of cluster bombs across the country in the past two weeks. The New York-based organization identified, through activist video footage of unexploded bomblets, three types of cluster bombs which had fallen on and around Maarat al-Numan.

Cluster bombs explode in the air, scattering dozens of smaller bomblets over an area the size of a sports field. Most nations have banned their use under a convention that became international law in 2010, but which Syria has not signed.

Russia said on Wednesday the rebels had acquired portable surface-to-air missiles including U.S.-made Stingers - a weapon that would help bring down warplanes and helicopters which have bombed residential areas where rebels are hiding.

Opposition activist footage has shown rebels carrying Soviet-made surface-to-air missiles, but footage of Stingers has yet to appear.

In contrast to the Libya crisis last year, the West has shown little appetite to arm the Syrian rebels, worried that weapons would fall into the hands of Islamic militants.

Russia, which has supported Assad through the conflict, sold his government $ 1 billion worth of weapons last year and has made clear it would oppose an arms embargo in the U.N. Security Council.

A total of 190 people were killed across Syria on Tuesday, the Observatory said.

(Reporting by Oliver Holmes in Beirut and Steve Gutterman in Moscow; Writing by Angus MacSwan; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Question by Prometheus, l Ain't; Possum, l ls: What is the liberal definition of "separation of church and state"? I had a couple of liberals tell me that I violated this separation if I voted according to my religious beliefs. Is this the typical understanding? I have also heard these violate: Praying in school, wearing crosses, reading the bible in a public park, renting a school after hours for community prayer service, PRAYING for the president in church, etc... Is this what most liberals think? Best answer for What is the liberal definition of "separation of church and state"?:

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Answer by Ed
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Answer by warren v
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Answer by whiteflame55
Well, voting according to your re ligious beliefs is not a violation of it, though it's certainly not the way you should be voting for a secular government. Voting based on those ideas seems kind of antithetical to the system that our founding fathers fought to create. As for the rest, none of it is a violation of the separation of church and state. Praying in school is only a violation when students are forced to do it in public schools. Wearing crosses never violates. Reading the bible anywhere is not a violation. Renting a school after hours isn't a violation either, it's not on school time and no one's forced to go. Praying for the president in church is also never a violation. Don't know who's giving these ideas to you, but I'm a liberal, I'm Jewish, and I'm saying none of them are violations.

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It's to forbid anything Christian in all aspects of life and to promote minority religions like Islam, Buddhism, Hindu...etc....because liberals feel the latter get picked on.

Answer by constitution rules
To have a belief in religion is something that the bill of rights guarantees. Is it the goal of some on the left that only certain views are acceptable to have? What if the tables get turned on your particular belief, would you object?

Answer by Fuct
Voting according to religious beliefs isn't violating the separation of church & state. & So long as all those actions you describe are voluntary & not promoted by the government then they are not either. With the possible exception of praying for the president in church, as churches are forbidden from endorsing or condemning a polit ician from the pulpit (less they start campaigning for candidates that wish to establish their religion), so if they were trying to imply one should/shouldn't vote for the guy then it would be a violation.

Answer by Sandra M
Norm get a grip. I group of liberals would not talk to you. All that separation of church and state is that the government does not recognize an official church. The founding fathers did not want to support an official church like the church of England. Also, some of the founding fathers were deists. Deists basically sit on the fence regarding the existence of God. Even today, there are some official churches recognized in Europe that are tax payer supported, even if the tax payers are not members of that church. Also, the founding fathers looked at how the Catholic Church controlled public affairs of other countries and they wanted no part of that. The new country would be separate from any form of control from outside of its bo rders. No one has ever told you to vote against your conscience. The reason why there is no prayer in school is that having one set prayer would recognize one religion. This is not fair as there are many, many denominations and there are atheists. My high school has a moment of silence and that allows students to pray silently if they wish. You are permitted to read the Bible in a public park. I have yet to be arrested for this. Schools can be rented for prayer services and it is common in many areas for churches that are under construction to have services in public schools during off hours. I have heard priest praying for presidents in the past. I really think that you need to turn off conservative radio and talk and go outside and take a walk and actually look into the things that you rant about.

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I can't wait to see the answers to this one. Yes, according to scripture, believers in Jesus are the church, but politically and legally this is n ot what is meant. I should be able to thank God for anything I want or wear a cross. I am not a church, legally. And Whiteflame apparently doesn't know about all the censoring that is attempted. No one is putting those incidents in our heads, they are kept pretty quiet unless you are plugged in to the legal reports.

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not this liberal. my religious beliefs are just that mine not forced upon others. I believe what Jesus said about separation of church and state. Give to Caesar what is Caesar's give to God what is God's.

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CAIRO The U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria says the Syrian government and some rebel leaders have agreed to a ceasefire during the upcoming Muslim four-day holiday.

Lakhdar Brahimi told reporters in Cairo on Wednesday that the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad will issue a statement on accepting a truce today or tomorrow. The Eid al-Adha holiday begins Friday.

Syria's Foreign Ministry says an announcement will come Thursday, according to al Jazeera..

Brahimi didn't elaborate on how such a truce would be monitored.

The fighting in Syria has killed more than 34,000 people since March last year, according to activists.

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BEIRUT â€" At least 20 people were killed in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday when a bakery was hit by a shell, turning the bread shop into a bloodbath, activists said.

More than 50 people were injured in the attack by government forces on the Masaken Hanano neighborhood, they said, with surrounding field hospitals so overwhelmed by the influx of victims that activists sent out a plea for local doctors to come and assist.

Only half of the victims could be identified. One gruesome video showed a young girl, in a turquoise shirt, whose head had been blown off.

They were among more than 100 killed across Syria on Tuesday, activists said.

The bakery was the only one still operating in that part of the city, serving the Masaken Hanano neighborhood and surrounding districts. About 100 people were lined up at the bakery, said Abu Firas, a spokesman for the Revolutionary Council for Aleppo and Its Suburbs.

It was the third consecutive day that the opposition-controlled neighborhood was under intense shelling, which left a dozen people dead Sunday and Monday, he said.

Nearly a dozen bakeries have been attacked since July when Aleppo, once the country's commercial hub, became one of the main battlegrounds in the conflict.

"They are directly targeting the bakeries because many people gather there. Why are they shelling it? There aren't any Free Syrian Army fighters," Abu Firas said, referring to the main rebel group. "The regime wants life to stop."

In the Damascus suburb of Moadamyeh al Sham, residents Tuesday held funerals for 42 civilians who were arrested at a military checkpoint Monday and soon found executed, according to an opposition group. Some reportedly were strangled, others stabbed and still others shot at close range.

The funeral procession turned into an angry protest, which was attacked with an explosive device. Some reports said it was a rocket; others said it was an improvised "barrel bomb" or car bomb. Activists said 16 people were killed at the gathering, including six children.

Amid the violence, the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has exceeded 100,000, the third country in the region to pass that mark, the United Nations refugee agency said.

Thousands of Syrians continue to flee into neighboring countries as daily death tolls from the 19-month uprising often top 150 amid no prospect for an end to the conflict. An attempt by Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N. and Arab League envoy to Syria, to broker a cease-fire for the coming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha is widely viewed as unlikely to succeed.

More than 100,000 Syrians have registered or are waiting for registration with the U.N. in Lebanon, but the actual number of refugees there is probably much higher.

Most of the refugees are Sunni Muslims, and activists in Lebanon say that some have been wary of making their presence known in a country with Sunni-Shiite tensions.

Turkey and Jordan have more refugees than Lebanon, and Iraq is hosting a large population as well. There are more than 358,000 Syrian refugees in the region, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said.

The recent unrest in Lebanon, after a car bombing Friday that killed the nation's police intelligence chief, temporarily disrupted the registration of refugees.

More than 5,500 refugees registered last week with the U.N. refugee agency, and the longer Syrians remain in exile the more likely they are to seek help as their savings are depleted. Many refugees fled home with few resources because work has been disrupted for more than a year in some areas of Syria.

Almost 70% of Syrian refugees are from the battered city of Homs, which is still being shelled by government forces.

In Lebanon, the situation is further exacerbated because there are no refugee camps where housing and food are provided, so Syrians here must rely on their own resources.

"We are racing against time to ensure that all of these hundreds of thousands of refugees are protected from the winter cold," Fleming said.

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LONDON â€"  A sexual abuse scandal shaking the BBC broadened Tuesday, with the broadcaster's chief saying the corporation was investigating claims of abuse and harassment against as many as 10 former and current staff.

The BBC has been rocked by allegations that longtime children's host Jimmy Savile, who died last year, abused underage teens over several decades, sometimes on BBC premises. Some of the alleged victims have accused other entertainers and BBC staff of participating in abuse during the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

Director-general George Entwistle told British lawmakers Tuesday that the BBC is looking into historical allegations of sexual abuse or harassment against "between eight and 10" past and present employees.

Separately, the BBC press office said it was aware of "nine allegations of sexual harassment, assault or inappropriate conduct" involving current staff or contributors to the BBC, which employs some 20,000 people.

Entwistle said it was too early to say whether sexual abuse had been endemic within Britain's publicly funded national broadcaster, but insisted the BBC would assist police if detectives chose to investigate whether there had been a pedophile ring at the corporation.

Entwistle acknowledged there had been "a problem of culture within the BBC ... a broader cultural problem" that allowed Savile's behavior to go unchecked.

"There is no question that what Jimmy Savile did and the way the BBC behaved ... will raise questions of trust for us and reputation for us," Entwistle said. "This is a gravely serious matter, and one cannot look back at it with anything other than horror."

Entwistle's testimony before the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee came a day after the BBC aired a powerful documentary about the corporation's role in the expanding sex abuse scandal involving Savile, who died a year ago at age 84.

Since Savile's death, scores of women and several men have come forward to say the entertainer â€" a longtime host of music and children's programs including "Top of the Pops" and "Jim'll Fix It" â€" abused them when they were children or teenagers. Police have identified more than 200 potential victims.

The BBC, one of the world's largest and most respected broadcasters, is under fire for failing to stop the abuse and for pulling an expose on Savile from TV schedules at the last minute in December. The sex allegations were later aired on the rival ITV network.

The head of the BBC's "Newsnight" program, Peter Rippon, has been suspended pending an investigation of his decision to scrap the Savile story.

Monday's documentary, which was watched by more than 5 million people, presented the unusual spectacle of BBC journalists grilling their own bosses about why the piece had been dropped.

In an attempt to get to the bottom of the story, the parliamentary committee spent two hours Tuesday questioning Entwistle, who has been in the BBC's top job for just a month, after years in senior news and current affairs roles.

It may also want to question his predecessor, Mark Thompson, who led the organization at the time the "Newsnight" report was yanked. Thompson was appointed chief executive of the New York Times Co. in August and is due to take up the post next month.

He told ITV News that if "the police inquiry or the select committee want to hear from me, of course I'll help in any way I can."

Few public figures have had as spectacular a fall from grace as the cigar-chomping, platinum-haired Savile, who was knighted for his charity fundraising and praised on his death as a popular if eccentric entertainer.

Since the ITV report aired earlier this month, his family has removed and destroyed his gravestone, and two charities named after him have announced they will close.

It is not just the BBC that is under fire. Schools and hospitals associated with Savile's charity work stand accused of letting him abuse young people during visits. And state prosecutors have acknowledged they investigated four abuse allegations against him in 2009, but did not press charges.

Child welfare experts say there is a sadly familiar pattern â€" seen also in the case of child-molesting Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky or pedophile priests in the Roman Catholic church â€" of large organizations failing to act on claims of abuse from young people.

One of the revelations of Monday's documentary was that Rippon had sent an email expressing doubts about the Savile documentary because "our sources so far are just the women" â€" Savile's accusers.

Entwistle insisted the BBC was not complacent about sexism, and had hired a senior lawyer to look at how it handles sexual harassment cases.

"I do believe the culture has changed since the '70s and '80s," Entwistle said. "But I'm not convinced it has changed as much as it should have."

He said Savile had been "a very skillful and successful sexual predator who covered his tracks."

"These things are institutionally, it seems, very difficult to deal with," he said.

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Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless

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