A bus carrying Russian tourists crashed on Saturday in the Turkish resort of Marmaris, with 38 people receiving “minor injuries and bruises.” According to the passengers, the vehicle crashed into a tree and overturned after the driver fell asleep behind the wheel on a mountain road. “The injured were taken to local state and private clinics where they received treatment. Nobody was hospitalized,” the Russian Consulate in Turkey said in a statement. The police have launched an investigation into the reasons behind the accident.
Rouhani wins Iran's Presidential election Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani won Iran's presidential election on Saturday, the interior ministry said, scoring a surprising landslide victory over conservative hardliners without the need of a second round run-off.Interior minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced on state television that Rouhani secured just over 50 percent of the ballot based on a 72 percent turnout of 50 million eligible voters. Mr Hassan Rouhani ... got the absolute majority of votes and was elected as president," Najjar said. Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, a hard-line conservative, lagged behind with about 16 percent of the votes. Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, he too a hard-line conservative, earned 11 percent. The voter turnout was 72.7 percent. President-elect Hassan Rohani, sixty four years old, is known as a moderate conservative. He has been stressing the need to improve ties with Western nations, and is back...
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