Iraq
At least 46 killed, hundreds wounded, in Iraq bombings
A series of bombings across Iraq on Monday killed at least 46 people and wounded more than 200, police and witnesses said.
In the deadliest of the early morning attacks, 28 people were killed and at least 122 injured when two trucks packed with explosives detonated in a village in the district of Hamdania, near the northern city of Mosul, witnesses told the German Press Agency dpa.
Eight policemen killed in bank robbery in central Baghdad
Eight policemen were killed in a bank robbery in central Baghdad early on Tuesday, in which the robbers made off with the equivalent of about 5.7 million dollars, according to a government official.
Seven Iraqis killed, 15 wounded in Ramadi car bombing
Seven Iraqis were killed and at least 15 were wounded Wednesday when a man detonated explosives packed in his car in central Ramadi, west of Baghdad, police said.
"A suicide bomber blew up his car," police spokesman for al-Anbar Province Rahim Zubn told Baghdad's Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Suicide bombers kill 15, injure 40 in northern Iraq
Two suicide bombers left 15 people dead and more than 40 injured on Thursday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police sources told the German Press Agency dpa.
The bombers detonated their explosives in a crowded street in Tel district, where many Shiite Turkmen congregate, sources added.
Bidding for Iraqi petroleum contracts delayed due to sandstorm
The start of bidding for the rights to develop eight Iraqi oil and gas fields has been postponed until Tuesday because of bad weather, the Iraqi Oil Ministry said in remarks published Monday.
Two dead, ten injured in Baghdad market blast
Two civilians were killed on Monday and ten more injured in Baghdad when a bomb exploded near a vegetable market, an interior ministry source said.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency that the explosion took place in Alwat al-Rasheed market, southern Baghdad.
On May 6 a car bomb went off at the same market killing 12 and injuring another 44.
British government urges release of Iraq hostages
The British government Thursday appealed for the immediate release of five hostages captured in Iraq two years ago as the families of the captives said they were hopeful about their freedom.
Belgian foreign minister on surprise visit in Baghdad
Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht arrived on Wednesday in Baghdad on a previously-unannounced visit, local Iraqi media reported.
Clinton arrives in Iraq in unannounced visit
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in the Iraqi capital on an unannounced visit, Voices of Iraq news agency reported on Saturday. The visit comes at a time as the new US ambassador to Iraq, Christopher Hill, is taking up his office.
The trip - Clinton's first to Iraq as secretary of state - also comes after 48 hours of suicide bombings in Baghdad and other cities which have killed at least 155.
President Barack Obama vowed to withdraw US combat troops from Iraqi cities by summer during a recent visit to Iraq.
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