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Maher al-Assad: more powerful than his brother Bashar?

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INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Wed, 8/6/2011: We look at Robert Fisk's take on the Syrian unrest in The Independent. In the New York Times, an article on the Bashar al-Assad's brother Maher. Some say he has more power than the Syrian President. Elsewhere, unrest in Yemen, bizarre weather patterns and Merkel gives Hillary Clinton an unusual gift.

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