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...Beirut Did Hizballah Kill Hariri? Lebanese Shi'ite paramilitary group Hizballah is believed to have orchestrated the 2005 bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri (pictured), according to a report in the German magazine Der Spiegel. The report, which cites an unnamed source linked to the U.N. tribunal investigating the assassination, was published two weeks before Lebanon's parliamentary elections, in which Hizballah and its allies will face off against a Western-backed coalition. Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah has dismissed the allegations as an "American-Israeli scheme" to incite political turmoil and sabotage the election...
...stop deportations of Afghan refugees - one million of whom still live in Iran - Tehran has resumed sending waves back over by force. Shipments of school text books offensive to Afghanistan's majority Sunni Muslims have also started crossing the border from Shi'a Iran in greater number, according to Rafiq Shahir, head of the Herat Professionals' Council, who claims that mounting communal tensions could boil over because of Iranian influence. "We need to have good relations because we are neighbors, with deep economic and cultural ties," Shahir says, "but we are against Iranian politics here...
...Rafiq is desperate to cash in on his 9-year-old's success.' British tabloid NEWS OF THE WORLD, claiming that Rafiq Qureshi, father of Slumdog Millionaire child actress Rubina Ali, tried to sell his daughter for £200,000 to undercover reporters...
...British tabloid News of the World purported to have caught Rubina's father, Rafiq Qureshi, on video agreeing to a deal to sell the girl to an Arab sheikh for 200,000 pounds (about $280,000). The story quoted Qureshi's brother as saying, "The child is special now. This is not an ordinary child. This is an Oscar child." Without bothering to check the allegations with Qureshi, Indian newspapers and cable television channels descended on Rubina in her home in a slum in Bandra, a suburb of Mumbai, asking her to clarify the incident. Qureshi has consistently denied...
...Israel to deal with than the secular Assad government. Syria may only get weaker as time passes: its economy is in bad shape; it has a history of problems with Islamist insurgent groups; and it faces a multiyear U.N. tribunal investigation of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri that could reach high into the Syrian government. The Syrians accuse the tribunal of being a political tool of American and Israeli interests, but it may still make them willing to cut a deal. (Read "Lebanon on Edge as Hariri Tribunal Starts...