TWO suicide bomb attacks outside a mosque killed 39 people and wounded more than 100 during a Shi’ite religious ceremony in the south-eastern Iranian city of Chabahar yesterday, local media reported.

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a mosque in south-eastern Iran, killing at least 15 people at a Shiite mourning ceremony, Iranian media reported.

Hundreds of angry Shiites poured onto the streets of two cities south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad today to protest over what they considered insults by Al-Jazeera television against Iraq’s most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.