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The UN refugee agency says up to 2,000 Syrians have crossed the border into Lebanon to escape the violence
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Update on Syria - 10 February 2012
| 10 notesRound-up of Guardian coverage of events in Syria:
Catch-up on all the news coming out of Syria as reported on our live blog
Five commentators discuss the merits of five ways in which the outside world could respond to Syria’s crisis
Follow our correspondent @martinchulov for more updates:
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Photograph: Craig Thompson
It took the graphic novelist Craig Thompson seven years to complete Habibi, his epic exploration of child slavery and sexual awakening in an imaginary Middle-Eastern kingdom. In this gallery he shows how it grew from his first ideas to the final pages.
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France 2 television station has confirmed that the journalist reported killed along with 8 Syrians in Homs this morning is one of their employees, Gilles Jacquier. Jacquier, pictured above in a photo from 2009 (AFP / Kenzo Tribouillard), is the first Western journalist to be killed in Syria since the beginning of the revolt and Assad’s brutal crackdown (although, of course, non-Western journalists have been killed).
[Le nouvel observateur, Le Figaro, AP]
Terrible, terrible news. According to our Middle East correspondent who is on the ground (@ian_black), the Homs attack that killed French journalist was “first described as mortars then changed to rocket-propelled grenade. Circs v unclear”.
Remember, these journalists put themselves in grave danger to tell you the stories you read. And sometimes they pay very difficult prices. Our thoughts are with the family, co-workers and friends of Gilles Jacquier this morning.
You can listen to Ian Black’s account of what happened in Homs today here.
Ian Black on Homs attack (mp3)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxn5o4dLOH1qchhhqo1_500.jpg)
France 2 television station has confirmed that the journalist reported killed along with 8 Syrians in Homs this morning is one of their employees, Gilles Jacquier. Jacquier, pictured above in a photo from 2009 (AFP / Kenzo Tribouillard), is the first Western journalist to be killed in Syria since the beginning of the revolt and Assad’s brutal crackdown (although, of course, non-Western journalists have been killed).
Terrible, terrible news. According to our Middle East correspondent who is on the ground (@ian_black), the Homs attack that killed French journalist was “first described as mortars then changed to rocket-propelled grenade. Circs v unclear”.
Remember, these journalists put themselves in grave danger to tell you the stories you read. And sometimes they pay very difficult prices. Our thoughts are with the family, co-workers and friends of Gilles Jacquier this morning.
You can listen to Ian Black’s account of what happened in Homs today here.
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