YALA: Two border policemen were killed in a roadside bomb and gun attack in Thailand's troubled Muslim-majority south, officials said on Thursday.The policemen were on patrol in Yala province on Wednesday when their pick-up truck was hit by a bomb hidden inside a fire extinguisher and then suspected militants opened fire, they said. One died on the way to hospital on Wednesday and the other died on Thursday morning. Separately, trains to the restive south resumed full services on Thursday after a 13-day suspension imposed after a railway worker was killed by insurgents on April 10, officials 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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