Tuesday, October 20, 2009 MEXICO CITY: Hundreds of clowns from across Latin America gathered in Mexico City on Monday for the 14th International Clown Convention. The convention brought together clowns, from Mexico, Central America and the United States, for four days of workshops, classes, competitions and performances. Many of the clowns are professionals who make their living entertaining. One clown said he thought the job was an excellent career choice. "It's a very respectable job, a great job that can touch everybody from the very young one to the old," he said. Clown Tomas Morales said that they hoped to start a clown school and were planning to raise money to get the project started.
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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