FORMER LEBANESE PM HARIRI ASSASSINATED

NICOSIA [MENL] -- Lebanon's former prime minister and billionaire tycoonRafik Hariri was assassinated in a huge car bomb blast in Beirut on Monday. Lebanon's five-time prime minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in carbomb blast near the St. George's Hotel in Beirut. Another nine people werekilled and about 100 wounded when the explosion hit Hariri's motorcade.