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By Roberta Rampton and Alexei Anishchuk ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Western leaders rebuked Russian President Vladimir Putin for supporting Syria's Bashar al-Assad's attempt to crush a two-year-old uprising, setting the stage for a tense G8 summit of the world's most powerful nations. U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to use his first face-to-face meeting with Putin in a year to try to persuade the Kremlin chief to bring Assad to the negotiating table to end a conflict in which at least 93,000 people have been killed. ...More...