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Syria explosions deal new blow to crumbling trucedamascus—An explosion killed at least five people in Aleppo and two blasts hit a Da-mascus highway today in further signs that rebels fighting to top-ple President Bashar al-Assad are shifting tactics towards home-made explosives. The British-based Syrian Obser-vatory for Humans Rights, which monitors the 14-month-old re-volt, said the Aleppo blast wrecked a car wash in Tal al-Zarazeer, one of the poorest sub-urbs of the mostly middle-class northern trading city.Hundreds held after Egypt defence ministry clashCairo—Military prosecutors have detained over 300 Egyptian protesters following clashes out-side the country’s Defense Minis-try who face accusations includ-ing attacking troops and disrupt-ing public order, lawyers said Saturday. Lawyer Ragia Omran said that the roundup is one of the largest mass arrests to follow violent protests during the country’s troubled transition. The detain-ees, who include 18 women, are being interrogated by military prosecutors and could face mili-tary trials, she said.Rivals to Iranian President Ahmadinejad win seats in runoffTehran—Partial results for an Iranian parliamentary runoff election announced Saturday show supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reduced to a small fraction of the legisla-ture, hugely outnumbered by the conservatives who once backed him but then turned against him after he was perceived to chal-lenge the authority of top clerics. Iran has touted the turnout for Friday’s vote as a show of sup-port for the country’s religious leadership in their confrontation with the West over Tehran’s con-troversial nuclear program.Cambodia closes probe into activist’s shootingbangkok—The Cambodian government on Sat-urday said it had closed its investigati on into the fatal shoo tings of a well-known activist and a mili-tary police officer after the arrest of a security guard. Ran Boroth accidentally shot dead In Rattana, a military policeman who had just gunned down anti-logging activist Chhut Vuthy during an argument in a remote forest on April 26, a government spokes-man said.‘Sin’ has led to Middle East unrest: Saudi clericJeddah, saudi arabia—Saudi Arabia’s top religious official has blamed Muslim sinfulness for instability in the Middle East, where pro-democracy unrest has toppled four heads of state. The schism, instability, the malfunctioning of security and the breakdown of unity that Islamic countries are facing these days is a result of the sins of the public and their transgressions,” Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh was quoted as saying by al-Watan newspaper. |
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