An Iranian actress who appeared in a film critical of the Iranian authorities has been sentenced to a year in prison and 90

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. Opposition websites say that Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced on Saturday, but the charges against her haven't been made public. She was arrested in July over her part in the film My Tehran for Sale, which explores limits on freedom of expression for artists in Iran.

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The commander of African Union forces in Somalia says his troops have driven Islamist al-Shabab militants out of their last major stronghold in Mogadishu. General Fred Mugisha told the BBC that the whole of the capital was now controlled by African Union and Somali government forces. He said an offensive in the north had pushed the militants back from a range where their mortars could hit civilian areas. Yusuf Garaad of the BBC Somali Service said it represented a serious blow to al-Shabab.

非盟驻索马里部队指挥官声称，他的军队将伊斯兰阿尔沙巴布武装分子从摩加迪沙驱逐。Fred Mugisha将军告诉BBC，整个首都已被非盟和索马里政府军控制，BBC驻索马里记者Yusuf Garaad说，这是对阿尔沙巴布的严重打击。

Mogadishu is the most important city. It's the seat of the government. And if the government has extended its control to all parts of the capital except that little pocket, that's very important (and) because that gives [a] big morale boost to the government and its supporters, and that's negative to Shabab and its ambition to control the country.