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Quaker Alan Pinch makes tea for passersby as he holds a protest against war and military action in Syria on April 12th, 2018, in Manchester, England.

Quaker Alan Pinch makes tea for passersby as he holds a protest against war and military action in Syria on April 12th, 2018, in Manchester, England. British Prime Minister Theresa May is holding an emergency cabinet meeting amid speculation she will back Unites States military action against Syria in the wake of a suspected chemical weapons attack on the town of Douma, the last rebel-held town in the Eastern Ghouta region.

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