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HARLINGEN - Police arrested a 27-year-old man on charges of unlawful restraint after he broke into his apartment and refused to let his live-in girlfriend leave, officials said.

BEIRUT: Thousands of people attended a memorial service in Beirut yesterday for eight Hezbollah fighters killed in the 2006 war with Israel and whose bodies were returned to Lebanon two days earlier.

LONDON: British police have arrested 29 environmental protesters who occupied a train carrying coal to Britain’s biggest coal fired power station, British Transport Police (BTP) said yesterday.

They cheered. They chanted. They sounded air horns. If they could have, they would have hoisted the Red Wings upon their shoulders and carried them down Woodward Avenue themselves.