Lebanon: Three die in student riots
University students loyal to Lebanon’s government clashed with Hezbollah supporters Thursday, setting cars ablaze and battling with homemade clubs and stones. The melee deepened worries that Lebanon cannot contain the political and sectarian rivalries threatening to push it toward civil war. At least three people were killed and dozens were injured before army troops backed by tanks and firing barrages of warning shots into the air dispersed most rioters. The military then declared Beirut’s first curfew since 1996.
France: Airliner skids off runway
A jetliner skidded off the runway during takeoff from the Pau airport Thursday and hit a truck, killing the vehicle’s driver, authorities said. None of the 50 passengers and four crew members aboard the Fokker-100 jetliner was injured in the accident. A transport ministry statement said the 100-seat jet, in “takeoff phase,” was forced to make an urgent landing after birds were sucked into one of its engines. The plane then hit a small truck on a road ringing the airport.
Mexico: Bus plunges into ravine
A bus plunged into a ravine in the remote mountains of southern Mexico on Wednesday, killing at least 29 people, officials said. More than two dozen survivors were injured, a spokesman for the state attorney general’s office in Oaxaca said. The bus was headed to the capital and went off the road shortly after leaving Huautla, 375 miles southeast of Mexico City, Perez said.
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