The fourth is a former air-force general, Ahmed Shafiq, who was briefly prime minister as Mr Mubarak fell.

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Ahmed Shafiq, an army general, former Aviation Minister, and appointed as Prime Minister by Mubarak for a month in 2011, is named interim president for another transitional period.

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The court also ruled that former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq can remain a presidential candidate in this weekend's runoff election, despite his close association with the former regime.

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Shafiq Ahmed, an official with Pakistan's meteorological department, told CNN the tremor, which he put at magnitude 7.9, struck inside southern Iran, near the border with Pakistan.

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Within a few short weeks, Mr Ahmed and his two friends, Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal, were back home in the small West Midlands town of Tipton, where local people greeted their return by setting fire to an effigy of a figure in an orange boiler suit.

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