A prominent Lebanese journalist and critic of Syria was killed by a car bomb yesterday hours before a UN report criticised the "slow pace" of Syrian cooperation with the investigation into the murder of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
Gibran Tueni, a politician and publisher of the liberal newspaper An Nahar, was killed near Beirut early yesterday morning, a day after flying back from France, where he had spent many months for fear that his life was in danger. |