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Al-Shifunieh, Syria

Children receive treatment after an alleged gas attack on the village of al-Shifunieh in eastern Ghouta. A top US disarmament official has accused Russia of being on the wrong side of history on chemical weapon use in Syria, after reports of a chlorine attack in the besieged enclave, and the leaking of a UN report into the supply of related items from North Korea.
Photograph: Mohammed Badra/EPA