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Iran's president to visit Qatar
DOHA: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to make a brief visit on Sunday to Qatar, Iran's closest ally among the Gulf Arab states, the Iranian ambassador in Doha, Abdollah Sohrabi, said. Ahmadinejad will hold talks with Qatari emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on issues including the Palestinian question and the devastating floods in Pakistan, Sohrabi told reporters yesterday..
Iranian lawyer reunited with family in Norway
OSLO: An Iranian lawyer who defended a woman sentenced to death by stoning and fled to Norway after an order to arrest him was reunited with his wife and daughter yesterday in Oslo. Mohammad Mostafaie has defended Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother sentenced to death by stoning for adultery and complicity in the murder of her husband which has attracted widespread public attention. Mostafaie fled Iran when Tehran issued an arrest warrant against him at the end of July, and he arrived in Norway in early August.
2 killed in Algerian suicide attack
ALGIERS: Two soldiers were killed and dozens injured after a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives by a military convoy near the capital Algiers, Algerian newspapers reported yesterday. At least 26 soldiers were injured in Wednesday's attack, which took place near Boumerdes, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Algiers, according toLe Soir d'Algerie .
Bus accident kills 10 Iranian pilgrims in Iraq
BAGHDAD: At least 10 Iranian pilgrims were killed and 33 others wounded when their bus overturned and caught fire in Iskandariya, south of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. The bus was travelling from the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf towards the northern city of Samarra, another holy city for Shi'ite Muslims.
Russian fires start up again: ministry
MOSCOW: Forest and brush fires have flared up again in Russia, killing one person burning down more than a hundred houses, the emergencies ministry said yesterday. Strong winds stoked fires that burnt 113 houses in different towns, according to a local branch of the ministry. Although temperatures have dropped in Moscow since an unprecedented heatwave this summer, at times they topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the southern region of Volgograd.
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