{"id":62066,"date":"2020-02-15T08:44:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T00:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=62066"},"modified":"2020-02-15T08:50:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T00:50:57","slug":"lebanon-commemorates-rafik-hariris-15th-assassination-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=62066","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon commemorates Rafik Hariri&#8217;s 15th assassination anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                                        <\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td>BEIRUT, Feb 15 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon marked Friday, <br>the 15<sup>th<\/sup> assassination anniversary of former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated in a massivesuicide bombing in 2005, that destabilised the country.<br><br>In downtown Beirut political leaders as well as citizens gathered to lay flowers at Hariri\u2019s grave.&nbsp;<br><br>Future Movement leader, former Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, visited his father&#8217;s tomb early on Tuesday.&nbsp;<br><br>A torch sculpture, that is part of a memorial that includes a statue of Hariri, was lit near the St. Georges Hotel, where the blast went off at exactly 12:55 pm.&nbsp;<br><br>Future Movement held a commemoration ceremony at BIEL at 4:00 p.m. marking the occasion.&nbsp;<br><br>Saad Hariri vowed to pursue his father&#8217;s path to face <br>the crisis prevailing in the country, MTV local TV Channel reported.&#8211; NNN-NNA <br><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Feb 15 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon marked Friday, the 15th assassination anniversary of former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated in a massivesuicide bombing in 2005, that destabilised the country. In downtown Beirut political leaders as well as citizens gathered to lay flowers at Hariri\u2019s grave.&nbsp; Future Movement leader, former Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":62070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217,194,297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62066"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}