Heading for WAR: Cabinet Backs Theresa May Over Syria Action as RAF Tornadoes are FUELLED

• Russia-US tensions: Cabinet gives May the go-ahead for Syria strike ‘to deter further use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime’
  by Samuel Osborne, Chris Baynes, https://www.independent.co.uk/
  Donald Trump is yet to take a ‘final decision’ on what action the US will take according to the White House
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  Theresa May’s cabinet has agreed on the need to “take action” to deter use of chemical weapons following an emergency meeting at Downing Street. The prime minister summoned her senior ministers to No 10 to discuss joining the United States and France in possible military strikes against Syria after saying “all the indications” were Bashar al-Assad‘s was responsible for a suspected nerve agent attack on civilians last weekend.
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  President Donald Trump had warned Russia of imminent military action in Syria, declaring missiles “will be coming” and denouncing Moscow for standing by Syria’s president, but on Thursday night the White House said that “no final decision” had been made about what Washington will do.
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  Mr Trump, Ms May and French President Emmanuel Macron have been in regular contact as they plot a course of action, with Mr Macron saying France has “proof” the Syrian government carried out the chemical attack which killed potentially dozens.
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  It followed the Kremlin’s insistence that it would shoot down any missiles and attack their source, in developments that have placed the two global and nuclear superpowers closer to open conflict than at any time since the Cold War.
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