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...attack left the 25-year-old student battling for life in hospital and three other party goers who rushed to assist him also injured by the interlopers. On the same weekend about 700km to the north-east in Sydney, Australia's largest city, Indian hospitality graduate Rajesh Kumar was at his home reading a book when he was hit by a petrol bomb. The bomb caused burns to 30% of his body and left him in hospital in a critical condition...
...Rudd has stopped short, however, of criticizing law enforcement authorities. "Any decent human being just responds with horror at the sorts of attack which have occurred recently. But the key thing is to make sure our law enforcement authorities are doing the best they can. I am confident they are," he told Melbourne's 3AW radio. FISA's Menghani warned if authorities failed to deal with the issue, it would be the Australian economy that would suffer. "Each student is worth about $30,000. And there will be students who will not be coming to Australia because of this...
...point that had antagonized Moussavi's supporters was Ahmadinejad's attack on the candidate's wife. The President said Zahra Rahnavard, who is the first woman in the history of the Islamic Republic to campaign on behalf of her husband, had entered university without sitting the difficult national entry exam. "I'd like to talk about the educational record of a lady you know very well. Should I talk about this lady's record? Should I?" Ahmadinejad had asked threateningly...
...That attack alienated at least one of Ahmadinejad's supporters. "It was particularly ugly of the President to point the finger at Moussavi's wife, who is an honorable lady with a résumé of service to the country," said a chemical-engineering student. "I was an Ahmadinejad supporter, but the face he showed last night really turned me off. I'm voting for Moussavi...
...retract accusations that government forces were responsible for the shelling. When AP reported the May 12 shelling incident, the government reiterated that government forces had already suspended the use of heavy weapons inside the combat zone three weeks earlier. "There was a lot of publicity that we launched an attack on a hospital. That publicity was given due to the three doctors," Samarasinghe said. "Now they are in the custody of the CID, under detention orders. Soon they will be produced in court. You will hear what really happened...