European Union governments reached a preliminary agreement to ban imports of Iranian crude to the EU but have yet to decide when such an embargo would be put in place, EU diplomats said on Wednesday.

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 He also said it was Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s job to stop the killings, which the United Nations now puts at more than 5,000 since anti-government protests first erupted in the country in mid-March.

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