'U.N. calls for action on Syria; U.S. official likens Assad regime to ‘dead man walking’

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"U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon urged world powers on Wednesday to act “in the name of humanity” against Syria’s crackdown on dissent, as a U.S. official likened the Damascus regime to a “dead man walking.”

Activists said Syrian forces killed another 21 civilians on a day when the U.S. State Department’s special coordinator on Middle East affairs Frederic Hof told U.S. lawmakers that “change is surely coming to Syria.”