Hariri Assassination Trial Opens in The Hague

A U.N.-backed tribunal has opened the trial against four men accused in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.   He died when a van packed with explosives blew up in Beirut, killing 21 other people and wounding more than 200 others.   The Special Tribunal for Lebanon began the trial Thursday in the Netherlands. The four defendants, all members of the militant group Hezbollah, are being tried in absentia.   Prosecutor Norman Farrell said in...

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