The UN Security Council is expected
to vote later on Saturday on a resolution backing an Arab League peace plan for
Syria, diplomats say.
The draft resolution calls on President Bashar al-Assad to hand power to a
deputy to oversee a transition.
Russia has objected to earlier versions of the text and it is not clear how
it will vote, or if it will abstain.
Meanwhile, reports from the Syrian city of Homs say more than 200 people have
died in a government bombardment.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian forces were
shelling the district of Khalidiyya and some buildings were on fire. It said
women and children were among the dead.
The reports cannot be independently verified...
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