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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on January 23 said Russia bore responsibility for recent reported chemical attacks by the Syrian government, which Moscow backs in the country’s civil war.

“Only yesterday more than 20 civilians, most of them children, were victims of an apparent chlorine gas attack,” Mr Tillerson said of the reported attack in Eastern Ghouta that left its victims struggling to breathe.

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