Britain and France the EU's biggest military powers had been pushing the bloc to lift its embargo on delivery of weapons into Syria to help the embattled opposition.

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Boeing finished Tuesday with a 3.4% gain after announcing a third-quarter target for first delivery of its delayed 787 Dreamliner, helping lift the price-weighted Dow Jones industrial average 51 points to 11, 838.

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He worked as a delivery boy, a lather boy, a lift boy and a bell boy before entering the housepainting trade, mastering the crafts of graining and marbling just in time to be enlisted as a boiler-stoker in the Second World War.

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It also asked Libyan authorities to lift the ban imposed on the media, to open communications and telephone networks and to ensure the delivery of emergency medical aid to the wounded.

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