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Syria bars aid to reeling Homs

Convoy from Red Cross had been approved

By Alan Cowell and Neil MacFarquhar

 |  New York times  

  March 03, 2012

The Syrian authorities Yesterday blocked without explanation an officially sanctioned Red Cross convoy laden with food and medical supplies from entering a devastated neighborhood in the central city of Homs, one day after the army overwhelmed the main rebel stronghold there after a monthlong siege.

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