Saturday, September 26, 2009 WASHINGTON: Three people were killed when a medical transport helicopter crashed in coastal South Carolina, the latest in a string of such accidents.The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the Friday night crash in Georgetown County. NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson says no patients were on board. There were no survivors.Knudson says the helicopter had dropped off a patient at about 9:35 p.m. local time Friday in Charleston. He says the helicopter went down about 11:30 p.m.Knudson did not know where the plane was traveling to. An NTSB investigator was on his way to the scene and was expected to be there sometime Saturday.
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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