Monday, September 21, 2009 ROME: At least 200 people have been arrested in Italy for illegally entering into the country; most of them are Pakistanis.At least 44 people hailing from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Turkey have been arrested from a truck en route to enter Italy via Greece.42 people have been returned to Greece and two minor among them have been handed to City Social Services Department.Furthermore, 138 people were arrested from near Sicily; most belong to Libya.The arrested people said they have paid one thousand dollars to the human smugglers.
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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