Monday, November 23, 2009 HANOI: At least seven people have been killed in a collision between a train and a bus in the Vietnam capital's suburban district, a railway source said Monday.Three people died at the scene of the accident on Sunday in Hanoi's Thuong Tin district while four others died on the way to hospital, a staff member at the Vietnam Railway Corporation said, citing an official internal report. Fourteen others were injured, she told foreign news agency, adding the accident happened as "the bus deliberately crossed the railway when the train was heading north."
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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