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UN envoy worried after talks with Syria’s Assad

Courses of action are discussed but not disclosed

BEIRUT — The international envoy to Syria said after talks with the country’s leader Monday that the situation was ‘‘worrying’’ and gave no indication of progress toward a negotiated solution for the civil war.

Lakhdar Brahimi’s mission came as activists reported intense fighting in the central province of Hama, where antigovernment gunmen entered the predominantly Alawite town of Maan.

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