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Bomb attacks kill more than 70 Shi'ites across Iraq
Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:13
More than 70 people were killed in a series of car bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq yesterday, police and medics said, extending the worst sectarian violence since United States (U.S.) troops withdrew in December 2011.
Pakistan held a repeat election yesterday in an upscale area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with allegations of vote-rigging, despite the shooting death of a senior member of former cricket star Imran Khan's party.
GUNMEN killed an anti-terrorism policeman and his family in Baghdad on Saturday, while kidnappers abducted eight policemen guarding a post on Iraq's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country. Attackers also shot dead a Sunni cleric in the Shiite-majority south.
Four car bombs killed over a dozen people in sprawling Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital and in a northern city yesterday morning, while gunmen cut down the brother of a Sunni lawmaker, officials said.
Two car bombs struck a disputed northern Iraqi city yesterday as a series of attacks across the country killed at least nine people, officials said.
The Vatican is getting back into its centuries-old tradition of arts patronage with its first-ever exhibit at the Venice Biennale, commissioning a biblically inspired show about creation, destruction and renewal for one of the world's most prestigious contemporary arts festivals.
