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BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government has acknowledged that Israeli warplanes struck targets inside its territory in its first comment on the incident.

A statement issued by the Foreign Ministry says Israeli forces carried out "a new aggression" on Sunday and Monday on positions inside Syria.

It says the air raids were a sign of the "direct and continuous support" that Israel is giving to rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad.

Israel carried out the strikes in response to a cross-border attack in which a teenager was killed. It was not clear if the attack was carried out by government forces or rebels.

NEW YORK (AP) — Allergan, the maker of Botox, said Monday that Valeant Pharmaceuticals' hostile takeover bid for the company is "grossly inadequate" and that shareholders should reject it.

Allergan said the $53 billion bid from Valeant undervalues the company and is not in the best interest of Allergan's shareholders.

Valeant, a Canadian drugmaker, first offered to buy Irvine, California-based Allergan Inc. in April, and has increased its original bid of about $45.6 billion several times, only to be rejected. Valeant teamed up with activist investor Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management for the bid.

On Friday, Valeant said it was taking its deal directly to Allergan shareholders and allowing them to trade in their stock for 0.83 shares of Valeant and $72 in cash, or another combination.

Allergan's CEO David E.I. Pyott said in a statement that the company can increase shareholder value more than Valeant's bid can.

Shares of Allergan slipped 31 cents to $165.01 in morning trading Monday. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. shares fell $1.26 to $120.67 in morning trading.

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss scientists are urging alpinists and hikers to keep an eye out for lost items in melting ice patches — items lost hundreds or even thousands of years ago.

A project run by a Swiss cultural institute and a graduate student in the canton (state) of Graubuenden aims to gather artifacts trapped long ago in glaciers — finds that are now turning up with more frequency due to a warming planet.

The project encourages people to turn over things like wood or clothing they might run across in eastern Switzerland where the Swiss National Park is located.

In recent decades mountaineers have found everything from goat skin leggings in the Swiss Alps to a corpse in the melting ice of South Tyrol, each about 5,000 years old.

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