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Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN Christoph Heusgen announces that a UN Security Council resolution to prolong cross-border humanitarian aid to war-torn Syria has not been adopted after two permanent members, Russia and China, voted to veto the extension. SOUNDBITE
The UN Security Council adopts a resolution extending a system for cross-border aid to Syria by six months, the duration demanded by Russia while other members had sought a full year. The measure received votes in support from 12 of the 15 members, including Russia, China, and the Security Council's 10 non-permanent members. IMAGES
Russia vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have extended cross-border aid to Syria by one year without Damascus's backing. IMAGES
UN vehicles and empty trucks head to the Palestinian side of the border with Egypt as they wait for the border to open to allow trucks carrying aid to cross. Some 175 lorries stuffed with vital medicines, food, and water stretched into the distance at the Rafah crossing with Egypt, which has removed concrete roadblocks and is scrambling to repair the route into besieged Gaza -- the only one not controlled by Israel. IMAGES
The WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says from Damascus that President Bashar al-Assad has voiced openness to more border crossings for aid to be brought to quake victims in rebel-held northwestern Syria. SOUNDBITE
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