Ghana news briefing
Iran’s supreme leader absent as senior officials attend ayatollah’s funeral
"The Associated Press and Guardian report that people were calling for US President Donald Trump's death on Sunday, with poet Mohammad Rasouli saying at a poetry recitation before the prayer that "Trump's murder is our responsibility".
Sunday was declared a public holiday across Iran, and later in the day Khamenei's body will be moved out of the Grand Mosalla ahead of a procession through the capital on Monday.
News website Axios quoted US President Donald Trump on Saturday as saying that peace talks had been paused for a week for the events surrounding the funeral.
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