Suicidal Islamists exploded two other Yemenis.
"Strangely," the Syrian government is denying access to the ICRC, which wants to save the Syrian people their government is attempting to kill, despite demands by the UN and ICRC.
Iranian parliamentary elections appear to demonstrate a strong support for the party of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameni in an election where 100% of the Candidates were approved as "good, moral muslims" by the Guardian Council. The Majles, Iranian parliament, has no real authority and recommends laws to the Guardian Council for passage.
Early returns from provincial towns suggest that loyalist supporters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei are in the lead and that the president's supporters were losing ground in the legislative body.
Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar put the turnout in the polls at 64 percent.
Iran's main opposition and reformist groups boycotted Friday's election, the first since the disputed 2009 presidential vote. All candidates were cleared by the Guardian Council, a powerful group of Islamic experts and jurists that rules on constitutional issues.
The election will have little impact on Iran's foreign or nuclear polices, but will strengthen Mr. Khamenei's position ahead of next years presidential election.
Final results are not expected until next week.
Some 3,400 candidates ran for seats in the 290-member parliament. Among the candidates was Mr. Ahmadinejad's sister, Parvin Ahmadinejad, who failed to secure a seat in their hometown, Garmsar.
Iran's Guardian Council said no outside organizations would be permitted to monitor the turnout or vote-counting process. Council spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei said Thursday the presence of international observers would be an “insult” to the Iranian people.
The International Committee of the Red Cross on Saturday appealed to Syrian authorities to allow aid workers to enter the embattled city of Homs and deliver badly needed aid to thousands of people stranded in the besieged district of Baba Amr.
The ICRC said it will work with the Syrian Red Crescent to attempt to deliver the aid Sunday. Activists say the humanitarian situation in the district is dire, with food, water and electricity supplies running low as government forces continue to bombard the city.
ICRC spokesman Sean Maguire told Britain's Sky News Saturday a convoy of seven trucks carrying medical supplies and food entered Homs but was not allowed to enter Baba Amr. Maguire said “We are being told it is not safe to proceed.”
United Nation's Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demanded unconditional humanitarian access to Syrian cities, saying the were “grisly reports” of summary executions and torture in Homs.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the regime's “savagery must stop.”
Arab satellite channels reported that more 40 Syrian soldiers who tried to defect at an airbase in Idlib province were executed. In the same province, residents said cemetery workers were burying people in parks because the graveyards were targeted by Syrian forces.
China, which along with Russia has twice vetoed U.N. Security Council resolutions against Syria's deadly crackdown on dissent, urged all parties in the conflict to end the violence immediately and to take part in an “inclusive political dialogue” that would be mediated by the newly appointed U.N.-Arab League envoy, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Meanwhile, the remains of two journalists killed in a shelling attack on Baba Amr on February 22 — American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik — left Syria late Saturday on board a French plane to Paris. Their bodies were handed over to diplomats earlier in the day.
In other violence, activists and the state-run SANA news agency say an explosion killed at least three people and wounded several others in the southern city of Daraa Saturday. SANA blamed a suicide car bomber for the attack.
The U.N. says more than 7,500 people have been killed since the revolt began last March. Syrian officials blame the uprising on foreign-backed armed “terrorists” who, the government says, have killed more than 2,000 security personnel.
Two separate bombings in Yemen have killed at least four people, including two suicide bombers.
Yemeni authorities said that, in the first incident Saturday, two suicide bombers drove a truck into a Republican Guard camp in the town of Bayda, killing one soldier and wounding five others. A local official blamed al-Qaida for the attack.
Hours later, two explosions rocked the southern port city of Mukalla, killing another soldier. Local authorities said the blasts were aimed at a central security force building.
The blasts came a week after another suicide car bombing killed 26 people outside a presidential palace in Mukalla, just hours after longtime vice president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi was sworn in as the country's new leader in the capital, Sana'a.
He faces the challenge of uniting a heavily divided country. Yemen has long dealt with a separatist insurgency in the south, Shi'ite rebels in the north and an active wing of al-Qaida.
In his inaugural speech, Mr. Hadi pledged to continue the fight against al-Qaida militants and make it possible for displaced Yemenis to return home.
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