On 15 November, the EU approved new sanctions to put pressure on the Syria's Bashar al-Assad to cease the bloody repression of those protesting against hsi regime: the names of 18 Syrians have been added to a blacklist, denying them visas to EU states and freezing their assets abroad.

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