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UN suspends Syria monitoring due to rising violence

The suspension of activity inside Syria by U.N. observers may signal the chance for a peaceful resolution to the country's conflicts is slipping away.

By NBC News and news services

Updated at 12:55 p.m. ET: United Nations monitors in Syria have suspended operations because of the increasing violence over the last 10 days by President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels seeking his overthrow, the head of the observer mission said on Saturday.

"The observers will not be conducting patrols and will stay in their locations until further notice," General Robert Mood said in a statement.

Mood said the intensification in violence was impeding the 300 unarmed U.N. monitors from carrying out their mandate to observe an April 12 ceasefire deal, which has failed to halt the violence.

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"This suspension will be reviewed on a daily basis. Operations will resume when we see the situation fit for us to carry out our mandated activities," Mood said.

The White House called?again on the Syrian regime to uphold its commitments under the Annan Plan, including the full implementation of a ceasefire, NBC News reported.

"At this critical juncture, we are consulting with our international partners regarding next steps toward a Syrian-led political transition ...?The sooner this transition takes place, the greater the chance of averting a lengthy and bloody sectarian civil war," the White House said in a prepared statement obtained by NBC News.

Many hundreds of people, including civilians, rebels and government forces, have been killed in the two months since international mediator Kofi Annan's ceasefire deal was supposed to come into effect.

Last week shots were fired at a car carrying U.N. observers after they were turned away from the town of Haffeh by angry Assad supporters who threw stones and metal rods at their convoy, a spokeswoman for the monitors said.

Washington and its Western allies have shown no appetite for a Libya-style military intervention even as Moscow has helped shield Assad from tougher U.N. measures.

Diplomats said Mood is expected to brief the U.N. Security Council on Monday or Tuesday about the unrest in Syria.

President Barack Obama will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Mexico, but expectations are low for any significant progress for breaking the deadlock on Syria.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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Analysis: Crisis-weary Hungarians lose faith in government

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The deepening economic crisis is taking its toll on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government -- two years after a landslide election victory his party's support is crumbling and three-quarters of voters believe the country is on the wrong track.

Growing disillusionment can be felt across the central European nation, whose economy is sliding into recession again after a sharp downturn in 2009, with the rising living standards that Orban promised when his party won power failing to materialize.

While still paying off a 2008 bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, the government is seeking a new financing backstop to shield the indebted economy from the neighboring euro zone's mounting debt crisis.

Negotiations with the IMF will be difficult, however, as Orban will be reluctant to give up or tweak his Fidesz party's main policies, including a flat income tax and family tax breaks aimed to support the middle class, the party's core voter base.

Orban has been at loggerheads with Brussels over several laws that critics say served to cement his party's strong powers beyond the end of his term, while huge windfall taxes imposed on banks and selected business sectors eroded investors' trust.

"Orban is in a corner regarding his popularity: If he sticks to the status quo, the economy and living standards will be impacted. But if he does a U-turn, this will also be seen as implicit acknowledgement that his strategy was wrong," said Mujtaba Rahman, analyst at think tank Eurasia Group.

The big game changer would be an escalation of the euro zone crisis, which could sharply weaken the forint currency and send Hungary's markets plunging.

That, say analysts, would quickly drive the government to embrace IMF support despite Orban's earlier rebuff of the Fund in the name of sovereignty over finances and economic policy.

When Hungarians gave Orban's conservative Fidesz party a two-thirds parliamentary majority two years ago, they were hoping for a recovery, stability, and new jobs after years of successive Socialist governments.

Instead, most ordinary Hungarians, who have benefited little from the income tax cuts, feel life has turned into a grinding struggle as prices and taxes are rising.

"Things may have improved for the rich, but those who are poor will remain poor," said Erzsebet Pupos, 46, who is selling vegetables and mushrooms at one of Budapest's main markets.

"Nothing will change here, everything is just getting more expensive ... The biggest problem is that there are no jobs."

Discontent is palpable in the bustling market hall, with most people complaining about a surge in fuel and food prices. Inflation was running at 5.3 percent in May.

The forint is trading near 300 to the euro, sharply weaker from levels of 265 when Fidesz took power, even though it has firmed from record lows of 324 hit in early January when Hungary's debt rating was cut to "junk".

WIDE-SPREAD APATHY

According to a survey by pollster Median, Fidesz' support dropped to its lowest in a decade at 22 percent last month, even though it still has a lead over the opposition Socialists, who stand at 16 percent. Far-right Jobbik hovers around 11 percent.

The survey showed 76 percent of the people are pessimistic about the country's outlook while another recent poll by Ipsos showed this rate even higher, at 81 percent.

Half of Hungary's 8 million electorate is undecided or would not vote if parliamentary elections were held now, although the next election is not due until 2014.

"I have become so skeptical that I would not (vote) for anybody," said Maria Gubicsak who sells pickled vegetables and complains her customers are spending less and less.

"Unfortunately, people are getting poorer, the pensioners who used to buy a pound (of pickles) before, now ask for half a pound or less ... Those young people who work for a bank, have two degrees and speak 3-4 languages, and those in information technology (are fine). But the rest are also suffering."

Fidesz is still strong among its core voters and the opposition is fragmented. Orban's strong anti-Brussels rhetoric, push for national sovereignty and combative style, which has turned him into a bugbear of Europe in the eyes of many, appeals to part of the population.

But the rapid erosion of Fidesz' support will put pressure on Orban to act, while his hands are tied on the fiscal front and markets are pushing him to secure a deal with the IMF after months of delays.

"With the IMF or without the IMF, the government will be forced to keep the politically painful road of fiscal discipline, after six years of belt tightening, while the Hungarian public has developed a strong austerity fatigue," said Peter Kreko, analyst at Political Capital.

FAIRY TALE?

Hungary's economy shrank by 1.2 percent in the first quarter, posting the biggest quarterly drop in the whole of the 27-member EU. Analysts project only modest, 1.1 percent growth for next year according to a recent Reuters poll.

The government is more upbeat and says growth could pick up to 1.6 percent by 2013 on the back of two big automotive investments by Daimler and Audi.

A government spokesman said most of this growth would come from net exports, while a public works programme would employ at least 200,000 people this year and structural measures affecting the labor market would boost growth in the medium term.

"The present government governs by taking the steps which Hungarian society and economy needs in the medium term," spokesman Andras Giro-Szasz said.

"The Hungarian fairy tale or the Hungarian example will be a successful one in a year's time," Economy Minister Gyorgy Matolcsy told CNN in a recent interview.

Few share his optimism.

The budget deficit will be below the EU's 3 percent ceiling this year and next year, which is a significant achievement after a series of budget overshoots.

But unemployment remains high at about 11 percent, and investments are falling after unconventional measures in the past two years, including Europe's biggest bank tax and a nationalization of private pension funds.

While cutting state spending, the government also hiked the main value-added tax rate to 27 percent from 25 in January and announced new taxes on telecoms services and financial transactions.

"I have three children and my income has increased significantly. We can say that I have benefited from the new tax policy," said Attila Garai, who came for a snack lunch.

"I'm skeptical but hard working. I'm disappointed over what has been done, it seems rather hopeless but I don't give up," added Rita Giovannoli, who came for her daily shop. She says the worst is an increased uncertainty over the future.

(Reporting by Krisztina Than)

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The Afterlife of Cheap Clothes

In the rag-cut room, two men were silently pushing T-shirts, dresses, and every other manner of apparel into a compressor that works like the back of a garbage truck, squeezing out neat cubes of rejected clothing that weigh a half ton each. The cubes were then lifted and moved via forklift to the middle of the room, where a wall of wrapped and bound half-ton bales towered. I saw tags for Old Navy, Sean Jean, and Diesel peeking out of the bales, as well as slivers of denim, knits in bright maroons and bold stripes, and the smooth sur?faces of Windbreakers. Smashed together like this, stripped of its sym?bolic meaning, stacked up like bulk dog food, I was reminded that clothing is ultimately fiber that comes from resources and results in horrifying volumes of waste. Clothing stores completely separate us from this reality, and a ?rag-cut? room brings it home in an instant. The Quincy Street Salvation Army builds a completed wall made of 18 tons, or 36 bales, of unwanted clothing every three days. And this is just a small portion of the cast-offs of one single Salvation Army location in one city in the United States.

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Iran seeks 'sanctions relief' at nuclear talks

MOSCOW (AP) ? Iran became more adamant Monday that the world must remove the sanctions that are choking off its oil sales before it will curb activities that could be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said. The development dampened hopes that talks this week in Moscow could bridge the gaps between the two sides.

The diplomats said the Islamic Republic had asked the six world powers it is meeting in Moscow for discussions of "comprehensive sanctions relief" along with any consideration of their request that Tehran stop enriching uranium to a level that is just steps away from the purity needed to arm nuclear missiles.

The United States and others suspect that Iran is enriching uranium to develop nuclear weapons. Tehran denies this, saying all of its nuclear goals are peaceful. But fears have been fueled by Tehran's refusal to stop enriching or accept uranium from abroad.

The diplomats spoke to The Associated Press as talks between Iran and the six nations ? the U.S., France, Russia, China, Britain and Germany ? meant to reduce international concern about Tehran's nuclear intentions broke for lunch. They said the morning session was inconclusive, with the sides no closer to agreement than at their last session in May in Baghdad, which ended with them far apart.

The six had hoped that Iranian chief negotiator Saeed Jalili would respond directly to their demand that his country stop enriching to 20 percent and related requests, said the diplomats, who demanded anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the closed session. Instead, they said he presented his side's conditions for meaningful negotiations, including a request for "comprehensive sanctions relief," they said.

While the Islamic Republic has previously mentioned lifting sanctions or staying pending ones, one of the diplomats said that its request at the closed meeting Monday was the most direct to date. That appeared to reflect the mounting pain for accumulated sanctions, particularly international embargoes on Iran's oil sales that now are gathering stream.

Diplomats from several nations meeting with Iran in Moscow depict the talks as significant. They say it could be the last in a series and if negotiators fail to make headway in persuading Tehran to stop higher-grade uranium enrichment, it's unclear if or when new talks would occur.

While Iran wants the other side to recognize its right to enrich and blink first by easing sanctions, the six nations say the onus is on Tehran to show it is ready to compromise.

The talks are being convened by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, and her spokesman, Michael Mann, said the six were ready to "address the issues" raised by Tehran.

"We hope the Iranians will seriously engage on a set of proposals we put on the table in Baghdad," he added.

The six formally are only prepared to ease restrictions on airplane parts for Iran's outmoded, mostly U.S.-produced civilian fleet and are offering technical help with aspects of Iran's nuclear program that cannot be used for military purposes.

In addition to longer-term U.N. and other sanctions, Tehran is now being squeezed by the widening international embargo on its oil sales, which make up more than 90 percent of its foreign currency earnings.

Sanctions levied by the U.S. have already cut significantly into exports of Iranian crude from about 2.5 million barrels a day last year to between 1.2 and 1.8 million barrels now, according to estimates by U.S. officials. A European Union embargo on Iranian crude that starts July 1 will tighten the squeeze.

While not budging on lifting existing sanctions or those already decided upon, diplomats familiar with the talks told the AO, however, that the six are also prepared to guarantee that no new U.N. penalties will be enacted if Tehran shows enough compromise. The diplomats demanded anonymity because that possible offer has not yet been formally made.

For Iran, the main formal demand remains international recognition of its right to enrich and related issues ? with increasing emphasis on sanctions relief. Although it is under U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to stop enrichment because of concerns it could use it to arm nuclear missiles, Tehran insists it has a right to do so to for its stated goal of creating reactor fuel and medical isotopes.

The six, in turn, are ready to gloss over the Security Council prohibition of all enrichment and are prepared ? for now ? to tolerate Iran enriching to low-grades, suitable for nuclear fuel. But they are pressing the Islamic Republic to stop higher enrichment to 20 percent purity because at that level the material can be turned into weapons grade uranium much more quickly.

The six also want Fordo, the underground Iranian facility where most of this enrichment is taking place, shut down and for Iran to ship out its higher-grade stockpile. Fordo is of special concern because it might be impervious to air attacks, a possible last-resort response to any Iranian bomb in the making.

An Iranian delegate, who demanded anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss Iran's position, told The Associated Press that his country was ready to compromise but only if the six accepted Tehran's right to enrich, a concession that would effectively nullify the Security Council ban.

In turn, he said that Iran may agree to consider suspending 20 percent level enrichment as a voluntary, temporary measure.

"Our minimum demand ... is for them to recognize our right to uranium enrichment," he said. "If this is not accepted by the other side, then the talks will definitely collapse."

Iran would be most immediately hurt by a lack of progress in Moscow followed by any long hiatus in new negotiations but the White House also stands to lose.

Failed talks at Moscow with no immediate prospect of new meetings would expose President Barack Obama to criticism of weakness in dealing with Iran from his U.S. Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney and from Israel, which has threatened to attack the Islamic Republic's nuclear installations should diplomacy fail.

It is unclear if the Jewish state would actually make good on such a threat. But any military move would likely draw in the U.S. and widen the conflict through much of the Mideast.

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Associated Press writer Ali Akbar Dareini contributed.

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The Prettiest Place You've Never Heard Of ? A Dangerous Business ...

Alexander Graham Bell once said, ?I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all.?

I?ll admit that I was a bit skeptical of this quote upon first reading it. I mean, the Rockies, the Alps, the Scottish Highlands? those are all pretty impressive and beautiful things. Could a sparsely-populated island in the Canadian Maritimes really compare?

Well, the truth is that it kind of can.

When my family found out we were stopping in Sydney, Nova Scotia, on our last shore day of a cruise, we were a bit perplexed. Everything I was reading said there wasn?t much to see/do in Sydney apart from a giant fiddle and some historic houses. How would we fill 8 hours?

The trick, we discovered, is to get out of Sydney and explore the rest of Cape Breton Island. Because, as Bell asserted, the beauty of this place will surprise you.

We rented a car and took to the famous Cabot Trail, a scenic route that skirts the coastline of Cape Breton Island and takes you through Cape Breton Highlands National Park. We didn?t have time to drive the whole trail since we had a ship to catch, but we did drive a few hours into the Cape Breton wilderness.

At our halfway point, we stopped in a sleepy little fishing village that I have now dubbed The Prettiest Place You?ve Never Heard Of.

This is Margaree Harbour.

The Wikipedia page for this town consists of one sentence; the town itself consists of a small collection of houses and cottages; and the only living things we saw at the harbor were sea birds.

On such a warm, sun-kissed day, Margaree Harbour absolutely took my breath away.

I now understand completely what Alexander Graham Bell meant.

It just goes to show you that sometimes it?s the unexpected places that end up sneaking up on you to steal your heart.

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What do you think? Can Cape Breton compete with those other scenic places?

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