Opposition arrives for peace talks as more Syrians starve

Representatives of Syria's main opposition body arrived in Switzerland Saturday for UN-organised peace talks as the starvation death toll rose in Madaya, one of a string of besieged towns in the war-ravaged country. The High Negotiations Committee (HNC) begrudgingly bowed only late Friday to US and Saudi pressure to at least show up in Geneva to test the waters for joining the biggest push yet to end a five-year-old civil war. "We will not sit down at the negotiating table if our people continue