KABUL: At least 60 people have been killed in a suspected US air raid in Kunduz province, northern Afghanistan, the governor of the province said.Two petrol lorries were hit by the air attack, government sources told an Arab TV on Friday, but a Taliban spokesman said only one abandoned lorry was hit, killing 90 civilians.According to reports, members of the Taliban reportedly hijacked the lorries, travelling from Tajikistan, and took them to the district of Aliabad."The Taliban there said 'Help yourself' to the village, and a large crowd appeared," Bays said."It appears that then the US then launched a bombing mission to bomb those trucks.""Afghan intelligence sources said that a very large number of people had been killed, and the governor of Kunduz province said many of the dead were Taliban."A Taliban spokesman confirmed that the two lorries were hijacked, but that one got stuck in the mud in Aliabad district and was abandoned.The air attack hit the abandoned lorry, the spokesman said, killing 90 civilians who had come out to take the fuel.
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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