At least hundred people were reportedly killed in the west-central area of Houla on Friday. Syria on Sunday strongly denied allegations that its forces killed scores of people including women and children in one of the deadliest days of the country s uprising, but the U.N. Security Council after an emergency session condemned government forces for shelling residential areas. The killing of more than 100 people in the west-central area of Houla on Friday brought widespread international criticism of the regime of President Bashar Assad, although differences emerged from world powers over whether his forces were exclusively to blame. The Security Council issued a press statement Sunday that "condemned in the strongest possible terms" the killings in Houla. It blamed Syrian forces for artillery and tank shelling of residential areas. It also condemned the killings of civilians "by shooting at close range and by severe physical abuse," but avoided saying who was respo...