Updated at: 1553 PST, struck deep under the South Pacific Wednesday but no tsunami warning was issued, US monitors said. The quake hit at 0946 GMT at a depth of 89 kilometres (56 miles), 324 kilometres east-south-east of Tadine in New Caledonia, the US Geological Survey said. "No destructive widespread tsunami threat exists based on historical earthquake and tsunami data," the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
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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