(Los Angeles Times) Paul Richter - The Obama administration on Tuesday ordered Damascus to close its embassy in Washington, expelling its diplomats. Secretary of State John Kerry said, "We've all seen the pictures of the emaciated corpses. You can't believe you're in 2014. And so we just felt the idea that this embassy is sitting here with representation that we could take seriously is an insult, and we closed it."
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