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200 killed by Syrian forces in bloodiest day of uprising

UN to take up resolution on conflict today

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy

 |  Associated Press  

  February 04, 2012

In a barrage of shelling, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds early Saturday in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said.

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