UN Launches Record Appeal to Cover Syria Crisis

The United Nations warned on Friday that half of all Syrians will need humanitarian aid by the end of 2013 and launched what it said was the largest emergency appeal in history to cope with the civil war crisis. “Syria as a civilization is unraveling,'' said the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, announcing the call for some $5 billion before the end of the year. The joint ...