Thursday, June 11, 2009 RECIFE: The search in the Atlantic for more bodies and debris from a downed Air France jetliner is to continue until at least June 19, Brazilian officials said Wednesday."The search can continue at least up to the 19th (of June)" given currents in the area being scoured, air force spokesman Brigadier Ramon Cardoso told reporters in the northeastern city of Recife. "That's the time with the currents that are there... still give the possibility of recovering bodies," he said. He added that the period may be extended if conditions permitted, and stressed that more bodies may yet be found. Brazilian and French navy crews have so far recovered 41 bodies from the search area 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) off Brazil's coast. The Air France plane was carrying 228 people when it crashed June 1 as it was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
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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