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<p><span class=\"focusParagraph\"><span class=\"articleLocation\">BEIRUT</span> (Reuters) - More than 200 people were killed in shelling by Syrian forces in the city of Homs, activists said on Saturday, as the U.N. Security Council prepared to vote on a draft resolution backing an Arab call for President Bashar al-Assad to give up power.</span></p>
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<p>The toll, reported by two main activist groups, would make the Homs attack the deadliest so far in Assad\'s crackdown on protests which erupted 11 months ago, inspired by Arab uprisings which overthrew three leaders in North Africa last year.</p>
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<p>Residents said Syrian forces began shelling the Khalidiya neighbourhood at around 8 p.m. (1800 GMT) on Friday using artillery and mortars. They said at least 36 houses were completely destroyed with families inside.</p>
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<p>\"We were sitting inside our house when we started hearing the shelling. We felt shells were falling on our heads,\" said Waleed, a resident of Khalidiya.</p>
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<p>It was not immediately clear what had prompted Syrian forces to launch such an intense bombardment, just as diplomats at the Security Council were discussing the draft resolution supporting the Arab League demand for Assad to step aside.</p>
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<p>Some activists said the violence was triggered by a wave of army defections in Homs, a stronghold of protests and armed insurgents who Assad has vowed to crush.</p>
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<p>\"The death toll is now at least 217 people killed in Homs, 138 of them killed in the Khalidiya district,\" Rami Abdulrahman, head of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told Reuters, citing witnesses.</p>
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<p>A Syrian activist said Assad forces bombarded Khalidiya, a key anti-Assad district, to scare other rebel neighbourhoods. \"It does not seem that they get it, even if they kill 10 million of us, the people will not stop until we topple him.\"</p>
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<p>Another group, the Local Coordination Committees, also gave a death toll of over 200. It is not possible to verify activist or state media reports as Syria restricts independent media access.</p>
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<p>Video footage on the Internet showed at least eight bodies assembled in a room, one of them with the top half of its head blown off. A voice on the video said the bombardment was continuing as the footage was filmed.</p>
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<p>\"We are not getting any help, there are no ambulances or anything. We are removing the people with our own hands,\" he said, adding there were only two field hospitals treating the wounded. Each one had a capacity to deal with 30 people, but he estimated the total number of wounded at 500.</p>
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<p>\"We have dug out at least 100 bodies so far, they are placed in the two mosques.\"</p>
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<p>Activists said hundreds of people in the cities of Hama and Idlib took to the streets to show solidarity with the Homs victims. \"Homs is bombarded, and you are still sleeping?\" chanted a crowd in Idlib.</p>
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<p>In Zabadani, near the Lebanese border east of Damascus, residents reported shelling and clashes on the outskirts of the town.</p>
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<p>At the United Nations, the Security Council was due to meet later in the day to vote on a European-Arab draft resolution endorsing an Arab League plan calling for Assad to resign.</p>
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<p>It was unclear if Russia, which has opposed significant council action on Syria, would vote in favor, abstain or veto the resolution.</p>
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<p>But Western diplomats in New York said the latest violence might make it more difficult for the Russians to block the resolution. \"Would they dare, with what is happening in Homs?\" a council diplomat told Reuters.</p>
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<p>The Council originally planned to meet at 9:00 a.m. (1400 GMT) but the U.N. later said the meeting had been pushed back to 10 a.m. A vote may not be imminent and mroe revisions could follow. France says it expects a vote by Monday at the latest.</p>
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<p>Russia has balked at any language that would open to door to \"regime change\" in Syria, its most important Middle East ally. Moscow has a naval base in Syria and is a major supplier of arms to the government.</p>
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<p>Elsewhere in Syria, armed forces in the city of Hama shot dead one person on Friday as they moved to break up a protest marking the anniversary of a 1982 massacre by troops loyal to Assad\'s father, activists said.</p>
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<p>The Observatory said forces dispersed protests in the Janoub al-Malaab district of Hama where people had planned to release 1,000 red balloons to mark the killing of over 10,000 people when Hafez al-Assad\'s forces crushed an Islamist uprising.</p>
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<p>Violence also returned to the main commercial hub Aleppo, which had largely remained on the sidelines of the uprising.</p>
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<p>(additional reporting by Dominic Evans and Louis Charbonneau; Editing by <a href=\"http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=uk&n=maria.golovnina&\">Maria Golovnina</a>)</p>
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<p><span class="focusParagraph"><span class="articleLocation">LONDON</span> (Reuters) - Energy Secretary Chris Huhne resigned on Friday after learning he would face criminal charges for allegedly lying to police, a fall from grace that could tweak the dynamics of the coalition government and weaken its environmental agenda.</span></p>
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<p>(Additional reporting by Ashraf Fahim, Ahmed Tolba and Omar Fahmy; Writing by Tom Pfeiffer; Editing by <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=uk&n=louise.ireland&">Louise Ireland</a>)</p>
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<p><span class="label">1 of 2.</span> Protesters chant slogans in Tahrir square near in Cairo February 3, 2012.</p>
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<p><span class="focusParagraph"><span class="articleLocation">CAIRO</span> (Reuters) - Rock-throwing protesters fought riot police through clouds of tear gas near Egypt's Interior Ministry on a second day of clashes triggered by the deaths in Port Said of 74 people - the country's worst soccer disaster.</span></p>
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<p>A demonstrator and an army officer were reported dead in Cairo and in the city of Suez two people were killed on Friday as police used live rounds to hold back crowds trying to break into a police station and fought in front of the state security headquarters, witnesses and the ambulance service said.</p>
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<p>It was the country's deadliest incident since an uprising ousted Hosni Mubarak almost a year ago and it gave fresh impetus to regular street protests against Egypt's ruling generals.</p>
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<p>The ministry in Cairo, a focus of hatred for football fans who say lax policing was to blame for the stadium disaster, has been hemmed in by street battles since Thursday.</p>
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