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PARIS (AP) - The United States found itself with only one major partner - France - in its plans to strike Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons, after its staunchest ally Britain had to beg off following a stunning rejection of military force by Parliament.

If you are wanting a quick explanation of the Syria situation, this is another post from the Washington Post: 9 Questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/29/9-questions-about-syria-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask/

French courts... "unfair business practice" to give information for free... hmmm.

"President Barack Obama's administration is urging the Supreme Court not to take up the first case it has received on controversial National Security Agency cybersnooping."

Secretary of State John Kerry urged France, UK, and others to support the fight against the Islamist group in Iraq U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry asked diplomats from 10 countries at a NATO summit to join forces to fight an Islamic militant group that has seized territory across Iraq and the Syria-Iraq border.

Why did Andreas Lubitz turn the jetliner's nose downward, sending it plunging into the French Alps and killing all 150 people aboard? Did he plan his actions? What drove the German national to do that? Those questions and more remained unanswered after the Tuesday crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 headed from Barcelona, Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany.

The pilot Lubitz was sick and not fit to work but kept it a secret from his employer and crashed in the French alpes and its unknown if it was physical or mental condition.

More Police Shoot Dead Armed Man Trying to Enter Paris Police Station How France Has Changed Since the Charlie Hebdo Attack - Officers shot and killed a knife-wielding man wearing a fake explosive vest at a police station in northern Paris on Thursday, French officials said, a year to the day after an attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo launched a bloody year in the French capital.