Activist Group: Syria's Death Toll Now Exceeds 140,000

More than 140,000 people, over 7,000 of them children, have been killed in Syria's uprising-turned-civil war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. The pro-opposition Observatory said the period since the "Geneva 2" peace talks for Syria began last month had been the bloodiest of the nearly three-year conflict. The death toll is now at 140,041, according to the Observatory, which is based in Britain but has a network of activists across the country....

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