Iraq carnage kills 21 as UN official warns time not ripe for polls
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BAGHDAD  - At least 21 people were killed in the latest in a renewed spree of attacks to hit Iraq , as a top UN official issued a stark warning that elections could not be held in the current climate of violence.
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Insurgents unleashed a wave of bloody  attacks on Iraq's historic election Sunday, killing at least 22  people and wounding dozens in suicide bombings and mortar  strikes at polling stations across the country.
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_ Militants threatened to decapitate two Americans and a Briton being held hostage unless their demands were met within 48 hours, and in northern Iraq a car bomb killed at least 21 people and wounded 67 on Saturday.
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BAGHDAD: Twenty-four people were killed and more than 100 wounded in a car bomb attack and other violence in Iraq on Wednesday. Naim al-Qaabi, an official from Moqtada Sadrâs movement, said 15 people were
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A dozen people are killed in another day of violence across Iraq, as the country prepares for Sunday's poll.
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Insurgents have killed 21 Iraqis and  two U.S. soldiers in recent assaults, showing there has been no  respite in the fight against U.S.-led forces and their allies  since Sunday's election.
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The United Nations is hopeful elections in Iraq can be held on schedule in January 2005 despite escalating violence &#151; but the level of U.N. electoral assistance will depend on security, the top U.N. envoy to Iraq says.
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BAGHDAD: At least 23 people were killed in Iraq overnight and on Sunday as US Secretary for State Colin Powell acknowledged that organising elections throughout the country in January could be difficult.
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BAGHDAD -- At least 20 people were killed in Iraq yesterday by car bombers, roadside bombs, assault rifle fire, and an explosive rigged to a headless body, as insurgents appeared to intensify efforts to derail nationwide elections set for Jan. 30.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi capital was engulfed in violence yesterday as 21 people were killed and more than 100 wounded from two car bomb attacks and from United States-led offensives on Shi&#39;ite and Sunni rebel pockets in the city.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 19--Six weeks before Iraq&#39;s nationwide vote, another blast of violence hit the country Sunday, including two deadly bombings claiming at least a dozen lives
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A bomb attack outside a Pakistani election candidate's office killed at least 21 people on Saturday, the last day of campaigning for a general election meant to complete a transition to civilian rule.
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A RESURGENCE in violence in Iraq killed more than 60 people over the weekend and threatened to derail elections scheduled for January 30.
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At least 21 people were killed in  Pakistan on Saturday in a suspected suicide bomb attack near  the office of an election candidate supported by assassinated  opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's party, a Reuters reporter  said.
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Insurgents vowing total war on Iraq's  election killed 17 people on the eve of the vote on Saturday  and the country's president warned the violence would scare  most Iraqis away from the polls.
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BAGHDAD, December 3 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Twenty six people were killed in two separate attacks against police stations in Baghdad Friday, December 3, as US President George W. Bush insisted that elections in the war-scarred country would
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At least 43 people were killed as insurgents launched a string of attacks on Iraqi security forces and other targets on Tuesday, raising questions about landmark elections next month.