Saturday, November 21, 2009 JOHANNESBURG: South African President Jacob Zuma met the Miss World contestants at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria.The women are in South Africa preparing for the pageant, which takes place in Johannesburg next month.A jovial Zuma was all smiles as he welcomed the 112 contestants together with the reigning Miss World to South Africa.He said the Miss World pageant played an important role in promoting peace, love and prosperity because the women were world ambassadors.
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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