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_ Iraq has been rocked by car-bomb attacks in its two holiest Shiite cities. At least 60 people are dead and many dozens injured. In Karbala, police say a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle near the main bus station.
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Dozens of Iraqis die as car bombs hit Najaf and Karbala, while three election staff are shot dead in Baghdad.
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At least 17 people were killed and dozens more wounded by a wave of car bombings in central Baghdad on Monday, most of them in a predominantly Shi'ite district, police and witnesses said.
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At least 17 people are dead and nearly 100 others wounded in car bombings in the Iraqi capital and the northern city of Mosul. Fourteen people died in two Baghdad bombings.
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Insurgents unleashed a wave of five car bombings across the capital Wednesday, killing about a dozen people, despite stepped-up U.S. and Iraqi measures to protect this month's elections. North of Baghdad, insurgents killed a British security officer and kidnapped a Japanese engineer, officials said.
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Only days into Iraq&#39;s six-week election campaign, an eruption of violence today killed at least 60 people and wounded about 120 others in car bombings in Iraq&#39;s two holiest Shiite cities, Najaf and Karbala.
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Two car bombs ripped through crowded Baghdad streets on Monday, killing at least 21 people and wounding 96, as insurgents step up their campaign to undermine the country&#39;s
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Car bombers struck twice in rapid succession in the capital Sunday, killing at least 11 people including an American soldier, as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that violence may increase before the January election.
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Two car bombs exploded within hours of each other in two Iraqi cities holy to Shiite Muslims, killing at least 62 people and wounding more than 120.
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Bombings struck four coalition and Iraqi military convoys and a provincial government office Monday, killing at least eight people, including an American soldier and an Estonian trooper in the Baghdad area.
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - A suicide car bomber killed seven  policemen in Saddam Hussein's home town and gunmen shot dead  eight people in a minibus south of Baghdad Tuesday in the  latest attacks to threaten Iraq's Jan. 30 election.
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BAGHDAD, Sept 30  - At least 41 people were killed, most of them children, and scores wounded after three car bombs exploded in western Baghdad on Thursday, the latest in a string of bloody bombings in Iraq.
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At least 50 killed, 100 injured in car bombings; attacks come as Pakistanis prepare for elections.
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The death toll from a brutal string of car bomb attacks in Baghdad's Sadr City  has risen to more than 200 dead and more than 250 wounded, an Iraqi Health Ministry official said Friday after an updated count from local hospitals.
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Iraq begins sending ballot boxes to the provinces for Sunday's  election, as new violence kills at least 12.
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A series of car bomb blasts tore  through Baghdad and the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Monday,  killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 100.
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A suicide car bomber killed at least 13  Shi'ites northeast of Baghdad and gunmen shot dead nine people  in a Shi'ite bakery in the capital in the latest sectarian  attacks following the Jan. 30 election.