Wednesday, November 04, 2009 SYDNEY: Australia is expelling Fiji's top envoy in retaliation for the military regime's move to kick out Canberra's senior diplomat, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said on Wednesday.Smith said Fiji's acting high commissioner Kamlesh Kumar Arya, had been ordered to return to Suva. "This is deeply regrettable and Australia is deeply disappointed at Fiji's conduct in this matter," he said, according to the public broadcaster.
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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