BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Arab League put Syrian VIPs on a travel ban list on Thursday and European Union foreign ministers readied a raft of economic sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad to press him into stopping a military crackdown on popular protests.
Bloodshed went on in Syria, with six people killed and five critically wounded during an army sweep into the restive town of al-Trimsa in Hama province, a hotbed of anti-Assad sentiment, on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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