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Homs is reported calm by monitors of unrest in Syria

UN team says cease-fire seems to be holding

The battered Syrian city of Homs was calm for the first time in months on Saturday during a visit by an advance team of UN cease-fire monitors who had initially been denied government permission to visit.

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