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Iran bans defeated candidate's newspaper
AFP, TEHRAN: Iran halted the publication yesterday of a reformist party newspaper after its defeated presidential candidate said he would refuse to recognise Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, its website said.
Former parliament speaker Medhi Karroubi said on Tuesday that the government emerging from the disputed June 12 election was not "legitimate" after Ahmadinejad's victory was certified by the nation s top electoral body.
"Last night, after Karroubi's statement was released, representatives of the Tehran prosecutor and the culture ministry prevented the publication of Etemad Meili newspaper," his Etemad Meili party said on its website.
Comoran youths block Paris flight in crash protest
AFP, PARIS: Angry Comoran youths staged a protest at Paris' main airport yesterday over flight conditions between France and their home islands after a Yemeni Airbus crash left 152 feared dead.
France's large Comoran community was plunged into mourning by the A310 jet crash off the Indian Ocean archipelago. Angry Comoran youths yesterday blocked the boarding of a Yemenia flight to Sanaa at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, which left 40 minutes late with only 60 of its planned 160 passengers, airport officials said.
Japan PM names new fiscal policy minister
AFP, TOKYO: Japan's embattled Prime Minister Taro Aso yesterday appointed Yoshimasa Hayashi as the new state minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, local media reported.
"Prime Minister Taro Aso... has decided to appoint former defence minister Yoshimasa Hayashi as the state minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy," said the Jiji Press news agency.
Iran hangs six for murder
AFP, TEHRAN: Six people convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran's Evin prison yesterday, ISNA news agency reported.
"Six people sentenced to Qisas (retribution) were hanged this morning," judiciary official Esmatollah Jaberi told the agency.
He did not identify the convicts but said that some of them had murdered their spouses. The latest hangings bring to at least 133 the number of people executed in Iran so far this year, according to an AFP count based on news reports.
Three dead, 18 missing after Afghan raft sinks
AFR JALALABAD: At least three people were killed and about 18 others reported missing when a raft sank yesterday in a river in eastern Afghanistan, an official said.
The raft was used by villagers to cross a narrow part of the Kabul River in Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border, provincial government spokesman Ahmad Zai Abdulzai told AFP Local residents and police were searching for the missing people, Abdulzai said.
Philippines calls for prayers for ailing Aquino AFP, MANILA: Former Philippines leader Corazon Aquino, who is suffering from cancer, is undergoing "a difficult time," a senator and family friend said yesterday, calling on the nation to pray for her.
"President Cory Aquino is undergoing a difficult time in her illness. I join our people in the prayers for her quick recovery," Senator Manuel
"Mar" Roxas said in a statement. The 76-year-old Aquino, who led the nation from 1986 to 1992 after the fall of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship, was admitted to hospital last week and is being fed intravenously after showing signs of poor nutrition. She had been undergoing chemotherapy and was hospitalised from March to May.
Thousands march for democracy in Hong Kong
AFP, HONG KONG: Tens of thousands of people took to the sweltering streets of Hong Kong yesterday for an annual prodemocracy march, as the city marked the 12th anniversary of its return to China.
Organisers said the major impetus for the turnout was a combination of dissatisfaction with the government's response to the economic slowdown, surging unemployment and delayed moves towards universal suffrage.
Australia boosts aid funding to South Asia
AFP, CANBERRA: Australia yesterday committed an extra USS four million to humanitarian assistance in Pakistan and one million dollars to support elections in Afghanistan.
The Pakistan funds would be used to help 2.5 million people displaced by fighting with Taliban militants in the country's troubled northwest, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said. Smith said the funds came on top of 18 million dollars already committed to humanitarian aid in Pakistan since September last year.
Farrah Fawcett laid to rest
AFP, LOS ANGELES: Hundreds of mourners paid tribute to Farrah Fawcett Tuesday as the "Charlie's Angels" star was laid to rest in a private ceremony in Los Angeles.
The 62-year-old actress and pin-up girl died last Thursday after a three-year battle with anal cancer, news that was quickly overshadowed by the death of King of Pop Michael Jackson later that day.