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TEHRAN Cheap 76ers Hats , July 31 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian court has rejected theappeal of ten people sentenced to jail for attacking the SaudiArabian embassy in Tehran last year, Press TV reported onMonday.


Earlier, the preliminary court had examined the accusationsagainst 19 people and convicted ten of them.


Five of those people were sentenced to six months in prison,while five others were handed down three-month sentences, theirlawyer Mostafa Shabani said.


Shabani also said that four other suspects were clergymen, whosecase has been examined by the country's Special Clerical Court.


Tehran's Prosecutor General, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, saidearlier that the police arrested 40 suspects for disturbing publicorder and causing destruction to Saudi Arabian diplomaticproperty.


On Jan 4, 2016, Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Iran a dayafter angry Iranian protesters against the execution of a Shiiteleader by Saudi Arabia raided and set fire to the Saudi Embassy inTehran. Enditem


NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks suffered big losses Tuesday as the slump in European equity markets rattled nervous investors.


The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 179.72 points, or 1.09 percent, to 16,330.47. The S&P 500 lost 24.23 points, or 1.23 percent, to 1,942.74. The Nasdaq Composite Index shed 72.23 points, or 1.50 percent, to 4,756.72.


European shares ended drastically lower Tuesday, with Germany's benchmark DAX index at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange diving 3.8 percent, as a result of Volkswagen's emissions scandal.


The German carmaker on Tuesday revealed that a total of 11 million diesel cars may have been involved in the emissions-testing manipulations.


The company's shares plummeted 19.8 percent Tuesday, following previous day's deep decline of 18.6 percent, on news that it could face an 18-billion U.S. dollars fine in the U.S. for rigging emission tests on its diesel vehicles.


In Asia, Chinese equities extended their rally Tuesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gaining 0.92 percent, while Japan's stock markets were closed for a holiday.