Tuesday, June 16, 2009 LONDON: The UK's foreign secretary says Britain tries to ensure foreign partners don't use torture but cannot guarantee that some allies don't abuse suspected terrorists.David Miliband says Britain has abandoned some operations because the risk a detainee would be mistreated overseas was deemed too high.Miliband said Tuesday that "it is not always possible to eradicate the risk of mistreatment" of detainees held by overseas governments.British officials are facing allegations they may have colluded in the torture of detainees held in Pakistan and elsewhere.
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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