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Main News of August 4

20:03 GMT 04.08.2013

WORLD

* Africa’s oldest leader, Robert Mugabe, has won a seventh term in office in a disputed presidential election in Zimbabwe, media reported Saturday.

* Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, has formally endorsed the Islamic Republic’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, media reported Sunday.

RUSSIA

* Moscow hopes for continuity in Russia-Iran cooperation after the election of Hassan Rouhani as the Islamic Republic’s new president, Russian parliament speaker Sergei Naryshkin said Sunday.

* A stunt by US rock group Bloodhound Gang, when their bass player desecrated a Russian flag, was described as “disgusting” by US Ambassador Michael McFaul on Sunday, as Russian lawmakers said that the group’s actions could have consequences for other foreign musicians performing in Russia.

* The number of labor migrants being housed in a tent encampment in Moscow ahead of their deportation from Russia for violating migration rules stands at 612, police said late Sunday.

* Nine people were injured Sunday after a bomb exploded in a shop in the capital of the Russia’s troubled North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, according to police.

* Russian President Vladimir Putin's love of sport means that, from a medical point of view, he is “much younger than his age,” the Kremlin’s chief doctor, Sergei Mironov, said in an interview to be published Monday.

UNITED STATES

* A senior US Senator said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behaving like a “schoolyard bully,” and added his voice to growing calls for US President Barack Obama to cancel a planned bilateral meeting with Putin next month in Moscow.

SPORT

* A day after breaking the women’s 50m breaststroke world record only to see it smashed by Lithuanian prodigy Ruta Meilutyte, Russia’s Yulia Efimova exacted revenge by winning the gold medal at the World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona on Sunday.

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