By BEN HUBBARD

Brahimi, the joint U.N.-Arab League envoy, arrived in Beirut

on Wednesday for talks with Lebanese officials on how to

resolve the crisis. The visit is part of a regional tour.

Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdessi said in

statement to the state news agency that the government was

waiting for Brahimi to come to Damascus to convey to

officials there the results of his tour. It would welcome any

“constructive initiative,” Makdessi said.

It was unclear if Brahimi would travel to Damascus from

Beirut.

Activists say more than 33,000 have been killed in 19 months

of violence in Syria.

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Japanese officials expressed outrage after two U.S. sailors

were arrested over accusations that they raped a woman on the

island of Okinawa, where the American military presence has

generated long-simmering resentment.

Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto on Wednesday called the

alleged rape "vicious and mean" and said Japanese authorities

were lodging protests with the U.S. government and military,

as well as demands for better preventive measures.

Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima, who met with Morimoto over the

matter, said it went "beyond madness" that the alleged attack

took place two months after a U.S. Marine was arrested over

accusations he assaulted and molested a woman in Naha, the

capital of Okinawa.

Police in Okinawa identified the detained sailors as U.S.

Navy Seaman Christopher Daniel Browning and Petty Officer

Skyler Dozierwalker of Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base

Fort Worth in Texas.


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