OAXACA (MEXICO): At least 17 people died when a bus overturned on a road in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca today, a local public security official said. "Up to now, 17 bodies were counted and five people were taken to hospital," said Javier Rueda, the state secretary of public security, adding that the bus appeared to have driven off the road due to a technical fault. The accident happened at 10:30 am (2200 IST) on a road near the town of Santa Lucia Miahuatlan, some 130 kilometres from the state capital, Oaxaca, Rueda said.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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