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Syria: One-sided talks resume as bomb shakes Homs city

AT LEAST six people died in a terrorist bomb attack on the Syrian city of Homs yesterday as the latest round of peace talks started in Kazakhstan.

The official Sana news agency said a remotely detonated bomb went off at a roundabout.

On Monday an amnesty deal was struck for 2,500 insurgents and their families to leave the al-Waer district after five years.

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