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Syria protests spread to Kurdish-majority northeast

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Syria protests spread to Kurdish-majority northeast
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Qamishli, Syria: Hundreds of people took to the streets in Syria's Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli on Tuesday amid wider protests over fuel price hikes, the largest against the new authorities. Syrian authorities on Sunday announced an increase in fuel prices amid global surges due to the Middle East war. The price of diesel saw a 40 percent increase, while petrol prices increased by 26 percent. An AFP correspondent on Tuesday saw men and women in Qamishli holding placards that read "n

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