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Syria: president pays for coffee with Visa card while Damascus returns to the global financial system

The Syrian president paid for a coffee in Damascus with a Visa card, in a symbolic gesture marking Syria's removal from the American list of state sponsors of terrorism and the reconnection of Syrian banks to the global financial system, after years of economic isolation and international sanctions.

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