Baghdad/Mosul - Six consecutive blasts targeting predominantly Shiite neigbhourhoods of Baghdad killed at least 36 people and wounded more than 100 more on Monday, police and local media said.
The attacks, which coincided with the latest in a near-daily string of deadly bomb attacks in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, came two weeks after a car bomb killed 26 people in a market in a predominantly Shiite al-Shaab neighbourhood of Baghdad, and a week after Sunni militiamen clashed with Iraqi security forces in a the Baghdad slum of Fadhil.
Baghdad - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband arrived in Basra on Monday leading a delegation of British investors and businessmen to explore investment opportunities in Iraq, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency reported.
VOI cited Basra media spokesperson Aqeel al-Fereji as saying Miliband was expected to attend the Basra investment conference along with the delegation. Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki had met earlier Monday with British Business Secretary Peter Mandelson.
London - A British business delegation led by Business Secretary Peter Mandelson left for Iraq Monday to explore investment opportunities during a one-day trip to Baghdad and the southern port of Basra.
Mandelson and members of the 23-strong delegation were due to have talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who is expected to visit Britain, France and Russia during a European tour later this month.
Baghdad - At least 10 people were killed Monday and 45 were injured as four bombs rocked separate locations in Baghdad, television reports said.
Iraq's al-Iraqia channel said four were killed and 15 were injured in a blast in the bustling al-Alawi commercial district in central Baghdad.
Two further bombings occurred in Shiite-dominated suburbs, while the fourth attack involved a car bomb in al-Naria district, in south- eastern Baghdad, targeting an official of the Interior Ministry.
Baghdad - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Iraq in an unannounced visit on Sunday, in the first visit of a Palestinian official since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, an Iraqi official source told German Press Agency dpa.
Abbas had been scheduled to visit Iraq on March 28, but his visit was canceled for an undisclosed reason.
The source, who asked not to be named, said that Abbas is scheduled to meet with Iraqi president Jalal Talabani and a number of other officials.
Baghdad/Mosul - Six consecutive blasts targeting predominantly Shiite neigbhourhoods of Baghdad killed at least 36 people and wounded more than 100 more on Monday, police and local media said.
Baghdad - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband arrived in Basra on Monday leading a delegation of British investors and businessmen to explore investment opportunities in Iraq, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency reported.
London - A British business delegation led by Business Secretary Peter Mandelson left for Iraq Monday to explore investment opportunities during a one-day trip to Baghdad and the southern port of Basra.
Baghdad - At least 10 people were killed Monday and 45 were injured as four bombs rocked separate locations in Baghdad, television reports said.
Baghdad - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Iraq in an unannounced visit on Sunday, in the first visit of a Palestinian official since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, an Iraqi official source told German Press Agency dpa.
Baghdad - Two simultaneous explosions killed nine policem
