AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces, disregarding U.N. condemnation, renewed their bombardment of the opposition stronghold of Homs on Saturday as a Chinese minister prepared for talks with embattled President Bashar al-Assad.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun arrived in Damascus on Friday after the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution telling the increasingly isolated president to halt the crackdown on the 11-month-old uprising and surrender power.
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