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By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Anti-government protests in southern Syria have entered their second week, with demonstrators waving the colorful flag of the minority Druze community, burning banners of President Bashar Assad, and at one point raiding several offices of his ruling party. The protests were initially driven by surging inflation and the war-torn country’s spiraling economy, but quickly shifted focus, with marchers calling for the fall of the Assad government. In a scene that once would have been unthinkable in the Druze stronghold, protesters have kicked members of Assad’s Baath party out of some of their offices. They have welded the doors shut, and spray-

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