Mubarak trial resumes

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CAIRO, Dec 28 (agencies): The murder trial of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak resumed Wednesday after a three-month hiatus that saw the ousted strongman's fate eclipsed by deadly clashes and an Islamist election victory. Mubarak risks the death sentence if he is found to have been complicit in the killings of some 850 people who died during protests that overthrew him in February. The ailing former president, 83, arrived by ambulance at the Police Academy-which once bore his name-and was wheeled out by stretcher into the courthouse. Around 5,000 policemen were deployed to secure the trial at the academy in the outskirts of Cairo, in coordination with the army. Syria deserters kill 4 troops in ambush Mutinous soldiers Wednesday killed four regular Syrian army troops and wounded at least 12 others in an ambush in southern Daraa province, a rights groups said. Meanwhile: Three Lebanese shot and wounded by Syrian troops as they were crossing into northern Lebanon died of their injuries overnight, a medical official said on Wednesday. A fourth person was wounded in the shooting but managed to get out of the car in which they were travelling when it was hit by gunfire near an unofficial border crossing at Raydani, the official said. Saudi beheads man for murder A Saudi man was beheaded Wednesday by the sword in Riyadh for murder, the interior ministry said. Salman al-Ghamedi was found guilty of stabbing to death another Saudi, Ahmed al-Qahtani, following a dispute, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency. Blast rocks Lebanon restaurant An explosion tore through a restaurant in the southern Lebanese town of Tyre at dawn Wednesday, just a few metres from a hotel that was bombed last month, a security source told AFP. The explosion, which happened at around 5:00 am local time (0300 GMT), was caused by a two kilogram (4.4 pound) bomb made of TNT that was left on the staircase of the seaside Tyros restaurant. There were no injuries.