Baghdad - At least six people were killed and 26 injured on Sunday in three separate suicide attacks in Iraq, police sources said.

A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up in the middle of an anti-Israeli demonstration in the northern city of Mosul, killing two other people and injuring 16.

The demonstration was against the Israeli aistrikes on Gaza, which left around 300 dead. Most of the demonstrators were from the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP).

Baghdad  - Iraq's Presidential Council on Sunday approved a law that will govern the pullout of non-US troops from Iraq, according to a statement by the council.

The council, comprised of Iraq's president and his two deputies, approved the law that will allow non-US forces to remain in the country beyond December 31, when the old UN mandate permitting the presence of foreign troops in the country expires.

The Iraqi parliament had approved the law on Tuesday.

The law allows non-US troops to stay until July 2009. This covers the approximately 4,000 British troops in the country, as well as smaller forces from countries including Australia, Romania and El Salvador.

Baghdad - A suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up on Sunday in the middle of an anti-Israel demonstration in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a police source said.

Baghdad - At least 25 people were killed and 64 wounded Saturday in two separate explosions in Baghdad and near Hilla.

Iraqi police also said they killed a senior al-Qaeda leader who had escaped Friday during a jail breakout in Ramadi.

At least 22 people were killed and 54 injured in a bomb attack on a Baghdad market, al-Iraqiya state television reported, citing an army spokesman.

The blast was in a busy used clothes market in northern district of Kadhimiya. Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency said the bomb had been hidden in a car.

Baghdad  - Acts of violence in Baghdad and Mosul claimed the lives of at least five people on Thursday, and left some 27 injured, while Iraqi authorities began preparations to take security responsibility for the capital's heavily fortified Green Zone.

Early on thursday a car bomb parked near the Madayif restaurant in north-western Baghdad exploded, killing at least four people and injuring another 25, according to the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.