Food enters Syria's besieged Homs city after local deal: U.N.

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By Stephanie Nebehay and Oliver Holmes GENEVA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.N. aid workers have started delivering food to tens of thousands of people trapped in a besieged district of Homs city in Syria following negotiations with warring parties, officials said on Friday. The United Nations did **t give details of the Homs agreement but local opposition activists told Reuters there was a temporary ceasefire. Food was sent to Al Wa?er on Thursday, Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the U.N.'s World Food Programme, told journalists in Geneva. Two more convoys over the coming days will deliver food to 75,000 people, she added, 30 percent of the estimated quarter of a million people the United Nations says are trapped in besieged areas across Syria.

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