Haze from fires in Indonesia, at home blanket KL: As gray clouds

Haze from fires in Indonesia, at home blanket KL: As gray clouds
of pollution blanketed parts of Malaysia, authorities on Friday
said they would take legal action against companies that lit
fires to clear plantation land. Seasonal burning in parts of
Malaysia and neighboring Indonesia have sent smoke drifting
across the region, cutting visibility and raising health
concerns. Thursday was the worst day so far, with two air quality
monitoring stations -- both near Kuala Lumpur -- reporting
unhealthy pollution levels. Many other stations reported higher-
than-normal pollution, although the levels were not deemed
hazardous. --AP

Demonstrators clash with police in Tehran, 40 injured:
About 40 students were injured and 10 arrested in several hours
of clashes at a Tehran university between demonstrators and
Iranian police special forces, a student leader said on Friday.
"About 200 members of the special forces, armed with batons and
wearing helmets, invaded the campus at 1:00 a.m. on Friday. The
clashes lasted until 8:00 a.m.," said the member of an Islamic
student association. About 10 were arrested and another 100 are
suffering from exposure to the tear-gas fired by the special
forces," he said. --AFP

Polish government survives confidence vote: Poland's left-wing
minority government narrowly survived a confidence vote in
parliament on Friday called by Prime Minister Leszek Miller after
the strong "yes" in the European Union entry referendum last
weekend. Miller's victory, by a vote of 236 to 213 with no
abstentions in the lower house, gives his unpopular cabinet a
fresh chance to tackle key reforms needed to prepare Poland for
joining the EU next year. --Reuters