Friday, September 25, 2009 PITTSBURGH: Several protests have been staged around Pittsburgh as world leaders arrive in the city for the Group of 20 Summit.Protesters seeking human rights reforms in China gathered in a designated protest area near the site of the G-20 meeting.Several dozen people led by more than a dozen monks walked through downtown Pittsburgh to protest the regime ruling Burma.Earlier in the day, Oxfam America held a mock football game. A dozen activists wore Steelers uniforms bearing the names of world leaders to spotlight hunger issues.Later Thursday, a group called the Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project is holding a march it calls a "People's Uprising." It begins outside downtown and will head toward the meeting site. It's unclear how many people will participate.
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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