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State television said the blast hit a restaurant in the Qaboonneighbourhood of the capital. The Britain-based Syrian Observatoryfor Human Rights said five people were killed. In all, at least 59 people were killed nationwide on Monday,including 31 loyalist troops who died in clashes with rebelfighters, the Observatory said. The bloodshed raged despite the deployment of a UN militaryobserver mission to oversee a promised ceasefire that has beenbreached daily since it went into force on April 12. The Observatory said dozens of people were arrested in the pre-dawnraids in several suburbs of the capital, including Douma, Harastaand Barzen. It said powerful blasts were heard overnight in a number ofprovincial cities, including central Hama, northern Aleppo and thecoastal cities of Banias and Latakia. The watchdog said there were also fierce clashes between regimeforces and rebels in the town of Kfar Roma in Idlib province in thenorthwest. Demonstrations broke out at dawn in several neighbourhoods ofAleppo, the country's second city and commercial hub which untilrecently had been largely spared the unrest shaking the countrysince March last year. One person was also killed by gunfire in Nouaymeh, a town in thesouthern province of Daraa, the watchdog said. The UN chief issued a new warning of the dangers of all-out civilwar as the 14-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad'sregime has turned into an armed rebellion. "The secretary general said we were at a pivotal moment in thesearch for a peaceful settlement to the crisis and that he remainedextremely troubled about the risk of an all-out civil war," aspokesman for Ban said at a NATO summit in Chicago on Monday. NATO, which undertook a major air war in Libya to back rebels whofought Moamer Kadhafi's forces last year, has said it has "nointention" of taking military action against Assad's regime. "We strongly condemn the behaviour of the Syrian security forcesand their crackdowns on the Syrian population," NATO chief AndersFogh Rasmussen said on Sunday. "But again NATO has no intention to intervene in Syria." NATO states have come under criticism for backing the air war inLibya but ruling out military intervention in Syria, whereopposition demonstrators and badly outgunned rebels have beenhammered by heavily-armed regime forces. UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous urged authorities in theflashpoint central city of Homs to release political prisoners andallow "peaceful demonstrations" to be held. Homs has been hard hit by deadly clashes between protesters andsecurity forces. Last week, at least 15 civilians were "summarilyexecuted" in the city by regime forces, according to theObservatory. Deadly violence linked to the conflict in Syria, meanwhile, eruptedin Beirut, with street battles between pro- and anti-Syrian groupsreported during Sunday night. "During the night, groups of young men cut off the road in theTareek el-Jdideh district and street battles followed," a securityofficial said. "Two people were killed and 18 were wounded," he said, addingmachineguns had been fired and that the fighting had raged untilabout 3:00 am (2400 GMT). The clashes broke out after reports emerged that troops had shotdead an anti-Syria Sunni cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abdul Wahid, when hisconvoy failed to stop at a checkpoint in northern Lebanon onSunday. The cleric's killing followed a week of intermittent clashes thatleft 10 people dead in Lebanon's main northern city of Tripolibetween Sunnis hostile to the Syrian regime and Alawites whosupport Assad. A Lebanese judicial official said 21 soldiers, including threeofficers, were being questioned by military police in relation tothe cleric's death. A high-ranking member of Shiite militant group Hezbollah, a closeally of Damascus which dominates the current government in Beirut,hit out at the opposition accusing it of transforming northernLebanon into a rear base for Syrian rebels. "The opposition has intentionally dragged Lebanon into the Syriancrisis and transformed into into a corridor and base for armedSyrians," Sheikh Nabil Kaouk, told a rally in the Lebanese city ofBaalbek late on Monday. I am an expert from polyester-spunyarn.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Aramid Yarn Manufacturer , Polyester Cotton Yarn, Polyester Core Spun Yarn,and more.
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