Saturday, October 03, 2009 PADANG: About 600 people are missing in landslides that hit villages northwest of the quake-hit Indonesian city of Padang, a disaster official said Saturday. "More or less, there are 600 missing. We've only found three dead," local health ministry crisis centre chief Jasmarizal said of the landslides, which occurred after Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude quake on Sumatra island.
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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