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BEIRUT, Lebanon – The Lebanese government on Monday approved a U.N. draft setting up an international tribunal to try suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. “We unanimously approved the draft,” Prime Minister Fuad Saniora told a news conference after a three-hour meeting. “We tell the criminals …

NICE, France – A Russian lawmaker and billionaire industrialist was being treated in a hospital Monday for severe burns suffered when a sports car he was driving slammed into a tree and caught fire in southeastern France over the weekend, police said. Suleiman Kerimov, 40, and a 31-year-old woman who …

HOUSTON – Richard Causey, the last of the top Enron Corp. executives to learn his punishment, was sentenced Wednesday to five-and-a-half years in prison for his role in one of the biggest corporate scandals in U.S. history. Causey, the company’s former chief accounting officer, pleaded guilty in December to securities …