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'I hope Assad pays the price'

A mother in Deraa whose son's death inflamed 2011 Syrian revolution, learns that her other son has died in prison.

The fall of Assad has lifted the lid on decades of repression in Syria, and much of Deraa was out on the streets on Sunday, giddy with freedom, as rebel fighters took the capital Damascus and Assad fled.

South Korea police raid presidential office over martial law attempt .

And the number of cases of dengue fever in the Americas has almost trebled this year.

(Pic: An abandoned tank is seen on a street near the minaret of the Omari mosque; Credit: Reuters)

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