KATHMANDU: Nepal's ruling Maoists on Monday accused the president of attempting a "constitutional coup" by siding with the head of the army in a major political row, and vowed to fight back with street protests.The warning came after Nepal's centrist president, Ram Baran Yadav, attempted to overrule a Maoist decision to sack the head of the national army. "Our party has taken the president's step as a constitutional coup and we will fight against it," Maoist spokesman and cabinet minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara told. He said Maoist Prime Minister Prachanda will address the nation on the crisis at 3:00pm (0930 GMT) Monday.
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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