Activists say more than 200 killed in gas attack near Damascus<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-activists-nerve-gas-attack-near-damascus-kills-062157783.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/BmgQGgbOvw4BX.LmtcCSNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-08-21T100549Z_1_CBRE97K0S1T00_RTROPTP_2_SYRIA-CRISIS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A boy, affected by what activists say is nerve gas, breathes through an oxygen mask in the Damascus suburb of Saqba" align="left" title="A boy, affected by what activists say is nerve gas, breathes through an oxygen mask in the Damascus suburb of Saqba" border="0" /></a>By Dominic Evans and Khaled Yacoub Oweis BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of launching a nerve gas attack that killed at least 213 people on Wednesday, in what would, if confirmed, be by far the worst reported use of poison gas in the two-year-old civil war. Reuters was not able to verify the accounts independently and they were denied by Syrian state television, which said they were disseminated deliberately to distract a team of United Nations chemical weapons experts which arrived three days ago. The U.N. ...</p><br clear="all"/>
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