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‘Thugs’ vs. Cannibals as Putin and World Leaders Trade Barbs on Syria at G8 Meeting (National Post)

Talks on the crisis in Syria between British Prime Minister David Cameron and Russia’s president Vladimir Putin broke up Sunday amid “very serious differences.”

This week’s G8 summit at Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, got off to the worst possible start as talks between the two leaders immediately stalled.

Putin refused to stop providing arms to Bashar al-Assad and rebuked Cameron and U.S. President Barack Obama for aiding the rebels fighting the Syrian leader.

“You will not deny that one does not really need to support the people who not only kill their enemies, but open up their bodies, eat their intestines in front of the public and cameras,” Putin said at a press conference. “Are these the people you want to support?”