Guilty verdict over assassination of Lebanon ex-PM

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 2:57 p.m.

One of four men accused of killing Rafik Hariri in Beirut in 2005 has been convicted by a special UN-backed court. The judges said Salim Ayyash had a central role in the murder. Also: shots are fired inside a military base in Mali and, a lost species is rediscovered in the wilds of Djibouti, Africa.