In Iraq, two bomb blasts have killed at least 65 people attending a funeral in the mainly Shiah Sadr City district of the capital Baghdad. Hugh Morgan reports.

Officials at the Iraqi Interior Ministry say at least 56 people were killed and more than 120 others injured by a car bomb in the predominately Shiah Sadr City east of the capital Baghdad. Minutes later a second explosion in another part of Sadr City targeted a funeral. The attacker managed to get inside a tent full of mourners before detonating his suicide vest. This attack was followed within seconds by another bomb explosion in a car parked nearby. Earlier on Saturday a Shiah religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr denounced those who targeted Sunnis and Shias in Iraq and called for national unity.

The authorities in France say more than a ton of cocaine has been seized on board an Air France plane flying from Venezuela. French officials say the drugs were meant to sell in France and would have been worth about 200million euros. Six people have been arrested.

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has issued a statement warning president Hassan Rouhani to be careful about recent overtures by the United States. The statement comes just a day ahead of president Rouhani’s visit to New York for the annual meeting of the UN’s General Assembly. Catharine Nagy reports

In its statement the Revolutionary Guard dominated by hardliners says it will support any move by the government that is in line with the wishes of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei. The statement is an indication of the kind of pressures: they are relatively moderate president Rouhani’s under from hardliners at home who will be watching his visit to the US very carefully.