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A Russian bid for the United Nations Security Council to condemn US, British and French air strikes on Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack failed on Saturday (April 14). Only China and Bolivia joined Russia to vote in favor of a draft resolution.
The United States, France and Britain defended their military action as legal during the Security Council meeting.
At Russia's request, the 15-member council met on Saturday, the fifth time it has met on Syria since a suspected deadly toxic gas attack in the Syrian town of Douma a week ago.
The United States, France and Britain fired over 100 missiles overnight in retaliation, targeting Syria's facilities and chemical weapons program.
Russia and Syria have said there was no evidence of a chemical weapons attack.
International investigators from the global chemical weapons watchdog are in Syria and were due to start their inquiry on Saturday into the suspected toxic gas attack.