The Violation Documenting Center, a group that makes documentation of all the casualties of the ceasefire between the Syrian government and the rebels, has tallied that at least 407 people were killed during the celebration of Eid holiday up to Wednesday. The total number of death upon the over a year civil war has now reached 32,013.

Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem Al Thani stated that the Syrian regime is waging a “ war of extermination” even against Syrian civilians. The Qatar president also blamed the UN for just “idling” while the Syrian government killed hundreds during the four-day ceasefire.

UN-Arab League Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi was the one who proposed the ceasefire for Eid, which started on Friday and ended on Monday. However, it became evident to many Arab countries that the ceasefire was never fully observed. Qatar’s Prime Minister pointed out that Syria did comply with the truce with a special condition, that it would respond to “anything that took place on the ground”.

Brahimi recently met with Chinese and Russian officials to discuss solutions about the Syrian civil war. China has declared its support to Brahimi’s idea of having a political solution to the entire situation. China and Russia are well-known opponents who have vetoed more than once stronger actions proposed by the UN Security Council.

Source: CNN

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) recently stated that they potentially receive 1,500 PPI claims per day from millions of UK customers who were mis sold PPI. While this was a 129% increase from the amount of PPI mis sold last year, the FOS and certain industry analysts saw no signs of slowing down. They mentioned that the end of PPI claims is still quite far away.

From January to June 2012, 2.2 million claims were processed by the FOS. According to the consumer group Which?, PPI mis selling is the biggest financial scandal in the United Kingdom’s history. They also warned banks and financial institutions to set aside more compensation money as their reserves might run out by the end of the year.

Barclays recently set aside £2 billion for compensation claims. Lloyds had reserved £4.3 billion and last Monday had guaranteed £700 billion for PPI compensation claims. Other banks have an average spending of £1.3 to £1.5 billion in PPI spending. The total cost of the PPI compensation package has reached £10 billion this year alone and has the potential to reach £13 billion by the end of the year.

Analysts state that even if the FOS has reached their 500,000th claim, it is still a small number compared to the population of mis sold in the United Kingdom. Industry analysts state that at the PPI crisis might definitely end by the year 2016 should the personnel in the FOS increase, new PPI claims processes become easier and faster and banks become more cooperative and avoid delaying their customers.