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TEHERAN - Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim may not have espoused an Iranian-style revolution in Iraq, but Iran lost a sympathetic ear that will be difficult to replace when the Iraqi Shi'ite leader was killed last week.
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- WEEK IN BRIEF
SHANGHAI
- Flooding worsens
THE flooding along the Weihe River, a tributary of the Yellow River, is growing more serious, with the water level of the lower reaches of the Weihe River falling by only 0.3 metres during the past 33 hours from the record high of 342.46 metres reached on Tuesday.
- Japan runs into red light on railway
IT now appears that Japanese Shinkansen technology will not be chosen for the proposed new US$25 billion Beijing-Shanghai rail link, the Oriental Morning Post has reported.
- Mayor's mysterious suicide
THE Party secretary and Mayor of Shangrao in Jiangxi Province, Yu Xiaoping, 50, has committed suicide at home but the authorities have not released any reason as to why he would have taken his own life, the Shangrao Daily has reported.
- Migrant ballots come at a price
ILLEGAL voting has been discovered in the exhibition of models for 2008 Olympic Games constructions, with migrant workers being paid to vote for a certain design, the Beijing Times has reported.
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