Syria announced temporary local truces in two areas last week.
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It however says it abides by truces Moscow has brokered.
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My other relationships have been more like truces with loneliness.
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Attempts at other regional truces recently have mostly failed to hold.
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Regional truces have often collapsed with both sides trading the blame.
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Or you could buy peace with truces and special deals between rival gangs.
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But truces have emerged before, only to collapse under a barrage of tweets.
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After that, Erdoğan and Putin tried to reinstate truces, but they quickly fell apart.
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During that time, the Nationalists led efforts to resist the Japanese and negotiate truces.
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Truces are unsatisfying and instability is exciting and theological civil wars can be worth waging.
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In the 1930s Britain established a Hadrami Bedouin Legion to bully local tribes into signing truces.
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Despite truces organized at afternoon teas by our horrified mothers, the fighting became ever more ferocious.
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By mid-March, pro-government forces implemented negotiated local truces and "evacuation agreements", the report said.
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He negotiated truces to avoid fighting on several fronts and to stall for time while he rearmed.
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The de-escalation agreed to in Japan was positive, he said, but truces do not last forever.
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But while these truces set a hopeful precedent, they won't lead to long-term peace anytime soon.
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Take, for example, Yugoslavia, where there were 19783 mediated truces or cease-fires from 1989 to 2000.
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But it is also a result of government policy, like the truces which displaced rebels to Idlib.
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" The warring lovers called a succession of truces, only to resume battle, with Jager screaming: "That's wrong!
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Global markets have underestimated the stakes, largely responding to momentary events — Trump tariff tweets and tentative trade truces.
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The British imposed truces on the internecine fights of the emirs (hence the region's name, "the trucial coast").
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It has stretched on for half a century and stymied two previous truces meant to bring lasting peace.
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Additionally, the two truces highlight the potential, no matter how remote, for joint efforts to end the war.
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Moreover, for all Mr Trump's sporadic boasts of being dealmaker-in-chief, his truces tend to be temporary. ■
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The truces do not cover a former al Qaeda affiliate, which has a small presence in the besieged enclave.
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Truces tend to be brief and temporary, and do not necessarily signal any willingness to settle the larger conflict.
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A Russian military official, General Sergei Kuralenko, said talks were under way on extending the local truces to Aleppo.
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Russia said a branch of its "reconciliation center", which negotiates local truces in Syria, had been located to Afrin.
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Instead, the Trump administration struck truces with China and the European Union and got mild concessions from other countries.
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We each called truces and timeouts at various times, and we each respected the other's need for a break.
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During shaky truces negotiated to retrieve the bodies, Dutch and Australian emergency workers also found evidence of the crime.
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Damascus described the truces as an attempt to salvage a wider "cessation of hostilities" agreement in place since February.
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Similar truces have been brokered before between the United States and Russia, which back opposing sides on the battlefield.
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Through these truces and ceasefires, the regime is neutralizing the last pockets of rebels who could threaten its core territory.
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The cessation of hostilities and local truces do not include Islamic State or al Qaeda's Syrian branch, the Nusra Front.
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When the truces inevitably break down, she said, violence escalates, and the halt in fighting also interrupts war's predictable routine.
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The history of what Mr. Assad's government once called "truces" — but now more honestly promotes as military victories — is dark.
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Instead, she serves up an Oprah moment of forgiveness that — like countless Middle East truces — may or may not hold.
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If a nationwide cessation of hostilities could not be achieved now, local truces were needed to enable aid access, Egeland said.
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While Hamas has been open to long-term truces, it refuses, like Islamic Jihad, to accept permanent co-existence with Israel.
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But for much of Friday and Saturday, Afghans were happily surprised, stunned even, by how widely the truces had been embraced.
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In 212, as _________'s civil war dragged into its sixth year, fragile truces brokered by the United States and Russia crumbled.
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The fighting has never entirely abated, and a series of truces have failed, despite the presence of 14,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops.
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But a rebel group formerly affiliated with al Qaeda is not included in the truces and it has a small presence there.
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Under truces recently brokered in al-Wa'ar, the Damascus suburb Qudsiyya, and several southern Damascus neighborhoods, state authority is to be partially restored.
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Some subreddits had to call truces with others, so they could get on with making art, instead of messing with each other's work.
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Local truces have calmed much of Libya, but the country no longer has an effective department of antiquities to safeguard the country's treasures.
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A series of truces brokered via Russian-Turkish talks has failed to end the fighting in Idlib, where Ankara has a dozen military positions.
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One organizer of the rally called on members of the black community to mediate truces between gangs in an effort to end the carnage.
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"These aren't truces in the strict sense," said Muhammad Abu Kamal, a relief activist who spoke to VICE News from Damascus's besieged East Ghouta suburbs.
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It's not the first time there's been an attempt at a peace deal, with previous truces between the groups falling apart in 1990 and 53.
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Russia has instead promoted temporary truces, beginning with a five-hour ceasefire announced for Tuesday, aimed at opening what Moscow says is a relief route.
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Lavrov said Russia and the United States wanted to make such local truces open-ended and suggested a deal covering Aleppo was close at hand.
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The unarmed monitors, mostly European diplomats seconded to the mission, are empowered to listen for cease-fire violations, escort humanitarian aid and negotiate local truces.
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The violence has occasionally escalated into shelling exchanges that Israel has warned could trigger war, while Egypt and the United Nations have repeatedly mediated truces.
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The level of violence rises and falls — it's tempered when truces between the maras and the government are brokered and soars again after government crackdowns.
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A series of truces brokered via Russian-Turkish talks has failed to end fighting in the northwestern Idlib province, where Ankara has a dozen military positions.
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It denies accusations it has targeted infrastructure and medical centers to force rebels into local truces that effectively restore President Bashar al Assad's grip on the country.
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Tio Hardiman, one of the organizers of last week&aposs rally, said members of the black community need to take the initiative by mediating truces between gangs.
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The government has said it will abide by the truces Russia has brokered but says it continues to target Islamist militant factions not covered by the agreement.
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So when I got out in '87, I started reaching out to a lot of the different clubs, negotiating truces with the Outlaws, the Bandidos, the Mongols.
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Instead Francis' reforming energies have been directed elsewhere, toward two dramatic truces that would radically reshape the church's relationship with the great powers of the modern world.
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"Trade tensions have provided many twists and turns so far, with truces giving way to stalled progress and subsequent escalation," Ahya wrote in a report on Monday.
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Afghan truces up to now have come and gone, and most observers do not believe that the Afghan military can stand against the Taliban without American support.
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The Syrian army and the Russian military, which also backs president Bashar al Assad, have periodically announced a number of temporary localized truces in areas of intense fighting.
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Some scholars think the rise of democracy at the end of the last century broke up truces between criminals and the ruling party, spurring more conflict and violence.
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The government has said it will abide by the truces which Russia has brokered but says it continues to target Islamist militant factions not covered by the agreement.
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"Our objective remains, and has always been, a single nationwide cessation of hostilities covering all of Syria — not a series of local truces," Toner said in his statement.
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"Our optimism will be determined by how serious and respectful the other parties are of the U.N. role," the official told Reuters, noting that previous truces had failed.
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But the United States and China have reached trade truces before — in Buenos Aires last December and in Osaka, Japan, in June — only to see them quickly crumble.
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"Truces maintained by walls and displays of power will not lead to peace, but only the concrete desire to listen and to engage in dialogue will," he said.
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Today, NGOs focus on breaking the need for these uncomfortable trades and truces between warring factions by replacing the previously centralized-production system put in place by the government.
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Specialists still debate why violence has decreased; one popular theory is that it has more to do with pacts and truces between organized crime factions than with public policies.
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"These truces are paving the way for ethnic and political cleansing on an unprecedented scale," said the head of the opposition's Saudi-backed High Negotiations Committee (HNC) Riyad Hijab.
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And the government says its opponents are fair game for attack even during truces because they maintain battlefield alliances with the Nusra Front, which is excluded from such deals.
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China and the United States have reached two previous truces in their trade war — the first in December in Buenos Aires and the second in June in Osaka, Japan.
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Russia's Interfax news agency quoted the officer in charge of a Russian ceasefire monitoring centre as saying the truces meant all military action would cease in the covered areas.
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Russia has proposed five-hour daily truces in eastern Ghouta, to allow residents to leave and aid to enter the enclave through what it describes as a humanitarian corridor.
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Many mainstream rebel groups have been skeptical about Moscow's ultimate aims in Syria and cast doubt on its readiness to put genuine pressure on Assad to abide by local truces.
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But by excluding the city of Aleppo, scene of the worst recent violence, the narrow truces were unlikely to resurrect a ceasefire and peace talks that have collapsed this week.
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Even under the nominally government of President U Thein Sein, the situation in Kachin occasionally seemed beyond civilian management: Twice, for example, the Tatmadaw ignored truces called by the president.
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They also worry that these ceasefire deals are a means for Assad's army and its allies to redeploy in other areas to recover territory by using firepower freed by the truces.
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Moscow and Washington have been working to try to revive the original cessation of hostilities by getting new local truces agreed on the ground for short, defined periods at particular locations.
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Unlike previous failed truces announced by the UN, this one appears to have resulted from direct communications between the Houthis and Saudis, and observers were cautiously optimistic in the following days.
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Putin was trying either to alter or to tear up the Minsk peace process, named for the Belarus capital where truces were hammered out for the war in eastern Ukraine's Donbass region.
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The Italian-Swedish diplomat said he thought there was a chance to relaunch a cessation of hostilities, which lies in tatters after fierce clashes in Aleppo, by reinforcing and extending local truces.
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Accords focusing on separating the warring sides in specific areas, establishing truces to deliver humanitarian assistance, and allowing injured civilians to leave these zones for medical treatment have been slightly more successful.
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The group is considered to be a terrorist organization by all major international powers, and has been routinely excluded from ceasefires and truces negotiated between the Syrian regime and other rebel factions.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations called on Thursday for Syria's warring sides to observe 48-hour local truces to let aid reach eastern Aleppo and other besieged zones where civilians may be starving.
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The two governments have been working to extend the local truces to Aleppo but so far have not been able to do so, although both have expressed optimism that this can be achieved.
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Assad: All we ask is for rebels to give up weapons Moscow claims it hasn't struck any "moderate" rebels since the truces went into effect, though its warplanes haven't necessarily all stayed put.
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Such truces were agreed in two areas last week, but not in Aleppo, the divided northern city where a sharp escalation of violence has done the most to derail the shaky peace process.
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The exclusion of Aleppo from Friday's truces shows how pro-Assad forces are doggedly determined to gain full control over the northern city, which, before the war, was the largest in the country.
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For 35 years, the US and Canada have been locked in an endless fight about imported lumber — a cycle of tariffs and truces that has repeated itself under every president since Ronald Reagan.
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Ly takes a day of national unity -- France's 2018 FIFA World Cup win -- and picks at the scab, finding uneasy truces between this group and that, always ready, it seems, to flare up.
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Past truces have proved short lived in the months-long bloody campaign to wrest control of the last rebel stronghold that has killed hundreds and left dozens of towns and villages in ruins.
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Syrian and Russian forces have justified their military attacks on many rebel groups as targeting terrorists; affiliates of Al Qaeda in Syria and the Islamic State have not been part of the truces.
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Whatever the broader implications of these truces and ceasefires, residents stranded on the wrong side of Syria's front lines can only watch their children go hungry for so long before agreeing to a deal.
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A conference call is over when someone uses one of the many conversational gaps, false starts, or "No, you go" truces to suggest that perhaps for clarity we should put our ideas in writing.
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Assad, whose government brands many of the Western backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel groups that Moscow has reached truces with as "terrorists", has said his army retained the right to continue to attack insurgents.
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And with the United Nations special envoy, Staffan de Mistura, pressing for a national cease-fire, the local truces are often perceived and portrayed as United Nations-approved and as steps toward a broader accord.
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A number of short-term local truces have been in place since April 29, first around Damascus and northern Latakia and then in Aleppo, but there has still been fighting between rebels and government forces.
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It added that a section of its "reconciliation centre", which Russia says helps negotiate local truces between the warring sides in Syria, was located in Aleppo province near Afrin for the prevention of ceasefire violations.
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But the two truces are similar in that both would accelerate Catholicism's transformation into a confederation of national churches — liberal and semi-Protestantized in northern Europe, conservative in sub-Saharan Africa, Communist-supervised in China.
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The local truces, known as a "regime of calm", were launched in the Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus and the countryside of northern Latakia province from Saturday morning in a bid to revive the overall ceasefire.
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There is little telling whether an agreement — other truces have come and gone — will indeed last, or whether the pause will simply be used by Russia and its Syrian government allies to consolidate their own positions.
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The G20 countries carry a lot of weight -- and getting these leaders on board with our strategies could be a determining factor when it comes to confronting Iran and Korea, stabilizing markets and establishing trade war truces.
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Better security has often depended on the outcome of turf wars and truces between rival gangs, or deals hammered out with governments, said Muggah, referring to Medellin in Colombia, Mexico's Ciudad Juarez and Sao Paulo in Brazil.
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Russian mediators are helping the Syrian government to broker deals with rebels seeking to lay down their weapons or to relocate to insurgent strongholds, as Moscow plays a role underwriting local truces with besieged opposition fighters.
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As well as brokering the ceasefires in three areas of southern Syria, its forces have also secured truces directly with opposition forces in various areas of Syria, including Talbiseh, a key location north of Syria's third largest city, Homs.
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Reporters were paraded through a "reconciliation center," where a dozen or so Russian officers take calls from armed units seeking to join the cease-fire announced in February, and aid them in negotiating local truces with the Syrian Army.
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The Russian defense ministry said on Monday it had no plans to open new military bases in Syria but that a branch of its "reconciliation center", which negotiates local truces in Syria, had been located in Aleppo province near Afrin.
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In an effort to revive the ceasefire, temporary local truces have been put in place in two parts of Syria, but those have not been extended to Aleppo, Syria's largest city before the war and its biggest strategic prize now.
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The fruitlessness of what Russia has labeled a "humanitarian pause" in eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held enclave, is the latest in a string of proclaimed truces in the seven-year-old civil war that have failed to stop the bloodshed.
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The U.S. and China may be on course for a "phase one" deal to prevent further trade war escalation — but a hardening between the world's two biggest economies could last far beyond the tariffs and truces of the Trump era.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria called local truces near Damascus and in a northern province on Friday but no halt to combat on the main battlefield in Aleppo, after a surge in fighting the United Nations said showed "monstrous disregard" for civilian lives.
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"Truces maintained by walls and displays of power will not lead to peace, but only the concrete desire to listen and to engage in dialogue will," he said in his second speech of the day, after a private meeting among the religious leaders.
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The announcement, in an independence day speech on Saturday, comes after earlier short-term truces in June and October 2016, which were followed by a fall-off in fighting in the southern Blue Nile and Kordofan regions but continued clashes in Darfur.
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Possible measures now could include formally opening a Taliban office, lifting sanctions on designated Taliban members who have played no discernable role in the insurgency after 2001, and exploring additional truces or reductions of violence in the wake of the recent ceasefire.
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These conservatives believe that the current version of social liberalism has no interest in truces or pluralism and won't rest till the last evangelical baker is fined into bankruptcy, the last Catholic hospital or adoption agency is closed by an A.C.L.U. lawsuit.
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Over the past few years, the Salvadoran government has attempted to establish truces with the criminal gangs, known as "maras," that operate in nearly every Salvadoran city in an effort to curtail the horrific trail of dead men left by the gang wars.
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Staffan de Mistura, the U.N. envoy, made his upbeat comments on Tuesday after holding talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, saying he thought there was now a chance to relaunch the cessation of hostilities by reinforcing and extending local truces.
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Graphic: Chemical attacks Gallery: An invisible enemy Reuters TV: Chemical weapons in Syria Syria's war has entered a new phase as President Bashar al-Assad extends his grip in areas being captured from Islamic State, using firepower freed by Russian-backed truces in western Syria.
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He called the Russian-backed daily five-hour daily truces "a step forward," but said more was needed and that he wanted to see a special mechanism set up to monitor how and if all sides were respecting the new 30-day ceasefire in the area.
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A Syrian military source said Aleppo was excluded from the newly announced truces "because in Aleppo there are terrorists who have not stopped hitting the city and its residents ... There are a large number of martyrs in Aleppo, which is why the situation is different there".
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Related: 'Children Are Eating Leaves Off The Trees': The Nightmare of The Siege of Madaya, Syria Even in areas that have already agreed to truces, such as the Damascus suburb of Muadhamiyyah, the regime has unilaterally revised the terms and re-tightened its blockade to extract further concessions.
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Above all, the two truces are similar in that they both risk a great deal — in one case, the consistency of Catholic doctrine and its fidelity to Jesus; in another, the clarity of Catholic witness for human dignity — for the sake of reconciling the church with earthly powers.
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"It is difficult to take that much comfort from the latest signs of progress given that we've had plenty of apparent truces in recent months end abruptly in a sudden further escalation in trade tensions," Michael Pearce, senior United States economist at Capital Economics, said in a note to clients.
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Batchelor wants to make Buddhism pragmatic not just in the idiomatic sense—practical for daily use—but in the technical philosophical sense as well: he thinks that the original doctrines of Buddhism were in accord with the ideas of truth put forward by neopragmatists like Richard Rorty, for whom there are no firm foundations for what we know, only temporary truces among willing communities which help us cope with the world.
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