BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) backed United Nations efforts on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) to arrange a ceasefire in Syria's second city Aleppo as one of the few options left to help end a conflict which has claimed more than 200,000 lives.

EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said the UN's planned "freeze" on the ground would ease the desperate plight of civilians caught up in the fighting and offer some way forward after repeated efforts to end the war had failed.

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