Saturday, June 20, 2009 TEHRAN: Iran's electoral watchdog the Guardians Council has expressed its readiness to "randomly" recount up to 10 percent of ballot boxes from last week's disputed presidential election, state television quoted its spokesman as saying. "The Guardians Council announces its readiness to recount randomly up to 10 pct of the ballot boxes in the presence of the representatives of the candidates," Abbas Ali Khadkhodai said according to the television service website. He said the council has up to Wednesday to give its final decision. "But there is no obligation to wait until Wednesday. Whenever our examination is finished and the recount is conducted, we can announce our final say," Khadkhodai said. He said Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the two defeated candidates who did not attend a meeting with the council on Saturday, still have time until Wednesday to discuss the matter. The other losing candidate Mohsen Rezai, the ex-head of the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps, was the sole complainant who attended the meeting. The three candidates have cited 646 irregularities committed in the June 12 election process, with Mousavi and Karroubi calling for the cancellation of the result and the holding of a fresh election.
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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