By Catherine Bremer and Steve Holland PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – France said on Friday it still backed military action to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government for an apparent poison gas attack on civilians and Washington pushed ahead with plans for a response despite a British parliamentary vote against a military strike. An aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a close Assad ally, seized on Thursday's British "no" vote which set back U.S.-led efforts to intervene against Assad, saying it reflected wider European worries about the dangers of a military response. U.S. …

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