A Syrian businessman in Aleppo has shot his wife for supporting President Bashar al Assad, AFP reported quoting the deceased woman’s cousin.Mohammad O., around 40 years old, who runs a clothes shop in the al Maissar district of Aleppo, reportedly shot his spouse three times using a pistol, 30-year-old
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office employee Ahmad said.“The dispute started when he criticized Bashar al Assad, while she defended the President. The quarrel escalated, and he shot her,” Ahmad told AFP.The husband then went outside and explained to onlookers that his wife, whom he met in Russia during a business trip and has been married to for 4 years, “didn’t stop showcasing her support for Bashar [al Assad],” and that he simply “couldn’t take her attitude anymore.” The neighbourhood in which the couple lived has been wracked by unrest and is under the partial rule of the rebels, the police are virtually powerless and the husband was not detained after the killing. Insurgents seized the town in July, and since then the town has been divided into sectors, with approximately half of it controlled by the government, and the other half by rebel forces. … Read More
Syrian kills Russian wife for supporting President Assad
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Ron Barber Recovering After Minor Cancer Surgery
PHOENIX, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Representative Ron Barber, a former aide to Gabrielle Giffords who was wounded alongside her in a deadly 2011 shooting, said on Tuesday he is recovering after surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his tongue. Barber, 67, beat Republican rival Martha McSally by a slender margin in the Nov. 6 election to represent southeast Arizona in the state’s redrawn 2nd Congressional District. Barber’s office said he learned of the tumor on Nov. 13. He underwent surgery on Monday to remove the growth, and is expected to return to work in Washington next week. “Congressman Barber was released from the hospital earlier today after a successful surgery,” Barber’s doctor, Audrey Erman, said in a statement released by the congressman’s office. “He is expected to make a full recovery.” Barber was shot in the face and thigh on Jan. 8, 2011, when Jared Loughner opened fire at an event outside a Tucson supermarket where Giffords was meeting with constituents. Six people were killed in the shooting spree and 13 were wounded, including Giffords, who was shot through the head. She stepped down in January to focus on her recovery. Loughner was sentenced to life in prison earlier this month. (Reporting by Tim Gaynor; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)Read More…
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