Sunday, July 26, 2009 TEHRAN: Iran has the capability to strike Israel's nuclear sites firmly and will do so if it comes under attack, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said yesterday."If the Zionist regime attacks Iran, we will surely strike its nuclear facilities with our missile capabilities," Mohammad Ali Jafari told an Iranian television."We are not responsible for this regime and other enemies' foolishness ... If they strike Iran, our answer will be firm and precise," he said.Jafari said Israel was entirely within the reach of Iran."Our missile capability puts the Zionist regime within reach to attack," he said."The regime is too small to threaten Iran."Israel believes that a multi-level missile shield underwritten by the US would protect the country against possible missile attacks.But Jafari said such a shield could only protect Israel in a limited way. "They will have no answer when Iran bombards them (and) sends a great number of its missiles," he added.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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