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World leaders said they had reached a transition plan for Syria at talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Saturday as a car bomb killed 85 people in a funeral procession in the country. The plan does not include a demand that dictator Bashar al-Assad be removed from office. While China and Russia—both among the five nations with permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council—have resisted calls for boots on the ground, it is expected that the United States along with France and Great Britain may ask for military intervention as the slaughter continues. “I think people with blood on their hands hopefully are not the only people in Syria,” said United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan, whose earlier attempt at peace unraveled in recent months. “It is for the Syrian people to determine the future of the country.”