UNITED NATIONS: Russia and the United States clashed at the United Nations over the carnage in Syria, as air strikes pounded Aleppo following the collapse of a ceasefire. An angry US Secretary of State John Kerry demanded at a UN Security Council meeting that Russia force Syria to ground its air force, which Washington blames for an attack on an aid convoy. Addressing the council, Kerry said the bombing of the aid trucks raised “profound doubt” about whether Russia and its Syrian ally were committed to upholding a ceasefire. Moscow denies that Russian or Syrian planes carried out Monday’s strike on the aid convoy. After halting aid operations in response to the convoy attack, the United Nations said it was ready to resume humanitarian deliveries.

Source: Manila Times September 22, 2016 02:26 UTC