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Iranian lifters win three golds at Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships

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The Iranian weightlifters continued to shine at 15th Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships by bagging two more gold medals. Amir Hossein Fazli clinched a gold medal at the 85kg category on Friday. The Iranian lifted 151kg in snatch and 181kg in clean and jerk for a total lift of 332kg. Milad Rashidi also from Iran claimed the silver medal in this category by lifting 150kg in snatch, 180kg in clean and jerk for a total lift of 330kg. The bronze medal went to Uzbekistani lifter who lifted 291kg in total. In super heavyweight class, Alireza Soleimani won the gold medal on Saturday for a total lift of 355kg. He lifted 155kg in snatch and 200kg in clean and jerk. Compatriot Peyman Jan lifted a total of 340kg to win the silver medal in this category. He lifted 150kg in snatch and 190kg in clean and jerk. Iran’s Alireza Dehghan and Ramin Valipour have already won two gold and bronze medals respectively in the competitions. The competition brought about 250 weightlifters from 40 Asian countries together

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MEXICO City ( 11 people Vanish - Kidnapped in broad Day light from a Mexican Bar ) What the Hell ?

A man holds up a sign with details of his recently disappeared relative during a protest in Mexico City, Thursday, May 30, 2013. Eleven young people were kidnapped in broad daylight from a Mexico City bar, just 20 days after the grandson of civil rights leader Malcolm X was beaten to death at a nightclub in the capital, anguished relatives said Thursday. The sign reads in Spanish "Help us find him. Rafael Rojas Marines. Disappeared in the after-hours Heaven. Asking for your support!" The mother — AP

MEXICO CITY — Eleven young people were brazenly kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar in Mexico City's Zona Rosa, a normally calm district of offices, restaurants, drinking spots and dance clubs, anguished relatives said Thursday.

The apparent mass abduction purportedly happened sometime between 10 a.m. and noon on Sunday morning just off the Paseo de la Reforma, the city's main boulevard, near the Angel of Independence monument and only about 1 1/2 blocks from the U.S. Embassy.

Demanding that authorities find their loved ones, family members marched Thursday morning from the Interior Department building to the Zocalo, the city's main square. Later they protested outside the bar, which bears no name or other signs.

Iran News ( Iranian blogger has been sentenced to three years in prison ) publishing false reports

NCRI - An Iranian blogger has been sentenced to three years in prison for publishing false reports and 'insulting the sacred' by the Revolutionary court in Shiraz.
Family of blogger Kaveh Taheri has also been subjected to threats from the intelligence ministry and the court prosecutor, and his lawyer is said to have been refused access to study his client's file.
Shiraz Revolutionary Court prosecutor and judge Sadati is waging a campaign of oppression bloggers, writers, students and other sectors of the society in the run up to the June election, when mullahs fear a mass public uprising.

New York ( Ricin Found in Two Threatening Letters Sent to N.Y. Mayor ) See Story

NEW YORK – Two threatening letters sent last week to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg contained the poison ricin, the city’s police department announced Wednesday.

One of the letters was received last Friday at a New York municipal office and the other arrived at an office in Washington that houses the Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an advocacy group Bloomberg founded to push for stricter gun control laws.

Bloomberg never came in contact with the letters.

The letters contain threats against Bloomberg over his policy against the unrestricted sale of firearms, an effort in which he has become more active after the Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school massacre last December.

Preliminary tests performed on the letters confirmed the presence of ricin, a deadly poison.

The letter sent to New York was opened at a postal reception center for the Mayor’s Office located on Gold St. and contained threats against Bloomberg.

Three members of a New York police unit that deals with emergencies handled the letter and had to be treated last weekend for slight symptoms of exposure to ricin, the police reported.

The letters have a return address in the state of Louisiana.

Authorities waited to announce the receipt of the letters until the results of the initial tests were in hand, tests that were performed at the National Bioforensic Analysis Center in Maryland.

Authorities believe the same person sent both letters, and the NYPD along with the FBI counterterrorism division is investigating their origin.

In mid-April a letter containing ricin was sent to President Barack Obama and on the same day another letter containing the same poison was set to Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.).

A third suspicious letter was sent to the office of Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.)

James Everette Dutschke was arrested for sending at least two of those letters. EFE