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1: Eight are dead and another seventy four wounded in a day of bombings in Iran just five days out from the Presidential election. The explosions took place in Ahvaz and the capital Tehran.
2: Michel Aoun has beaten several Christian political opponents, winning the Lebanon election just weeks after returning after being released from imprisonment. The civil war figure prevented the anti-Syrian Christian opposition from getting the strong parlimentary representation.
3: A United States military convoy has been hit by a bomb blast in Afghanistan, near the southern city of Kandahar. The United States reports four injured, but local police report that five died in the incident.
4: In Russia a bomb has left a Moscow-bound train from Chechnya derailed 90 miles south of Moscow, injuring fifteen people. The explosion occured during a long weekend in Russia and authorities suspect the incident was a terrorist attack.
5: As a dury of 10 prepare the final verdict in the Michael Jackson court case, a hoax email reporting that Michael Jackson has committed suicide is being used as the latest way to distribute the Trojan horse computer virus.
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