WARSAW: A blaze has gutted a hostel for the homeless in northwestern Poland and 18 people have died.Pawel Fratczak, a spokesman for Poland's national fire fighters says the fire broke out around 1 a.m. Monday in a hostel in the town of Kamien Pomorski. Fratczak says 20 people have been taken to the hospital with broken bones and other injuries after escaping the blaze in the three-story building. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire.
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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