Iraqi ministers escape attacks
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BAGHDAD (BBC)-- Two Iraqi interim government ministers have survived apparent assassination attempts in the capital Baghdad. Convoys carrying the environment and education ministers were attacked on their way to offices in the city.
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Private guards in SUVs helped Iraq's former electricity minister escape from a police station just outside the heavily fortified Green Zone where the dual U.S.-Iraqi citizen was being held on corruption charges, officials said Monday.
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The Iranian and British consulates in the southern Iraqi city of Basra have come under attack, Iraqi police and British officials said.
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Baghdad, Iraq -- Iraqi officials say two bomb attacks on Iraqi Cabinet ministers in Baghdad missed their targets but killed five people.
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Several explosions went off in the Iraqi Oil Ministry compound in central Baghdad on Saturday and witnesses said the explosions were probably caused by a mortar attack.
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Iraq's industry minister survived a double bomb attack on his convoy in central Baghdad on Wednesday that killed at least nine people and wounded at least 51, police and Interior Ministry sources said.
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A senior member of the US-backed Iraqi government was assasinated in a drive-by shooting by insurgents today. Deputy Governor of Baghdad Hatem Karim
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Insurgents attacked the governor&#39;s office in Mosul yesterday, even as the Iraqi government declared the rebel uprising in the northern city had failed.
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SRINAGAR, India  - The chief minister of Indian  Kashmir escaped a bid on his life on Wednesday when separatist  rebels fired grenades at a government building where he was  filing his papers to contest a by-election, police said.
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Iraqi environment minister Mishkat  Moumin said she survived a suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad  on Tuesday that killed four of her bodyguards.
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BAGHDAD -- Insurgents who have vowed to disrupt Iraq's parliamentary elections unleashed attacks yesterday across Iraq, from the kidnapping of a Catholic archbishop and a car bombing at a police station in the north to mortar attacks on polling stations in Basra in the south. At least 18 people were killed.
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Insurgents targeted the convoys of  Iraq's environment and education ministers in separate bombings  on Tuesday that killed five of their bodyguards and wounded  more than a dozen people, officials said.
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The heaviest fighting for months erupted in the centre of Baghdad yesterday, only a brief stroll from the office of the prime minister, Ayad Allawi.
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Iraqi environment minister Mishkat Moumin said she survived a suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad on Tuesday that killed four of her bodyguards.
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A suicide car bomb attack targeting Iraq&#39;s environment minister killed four of her bodyguards, while a separate blast near the education minister&#39;s convoy killed one bodyguard, police and government officials said.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Gunmen attacked the convoy of a Pakistani government minister in the restive southwestern province of Baluchistan on Tuesday but he escaped unhurt.
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BAGHDAD, June 26 -- Iraqi law enforcement officials stretched a dragnet over the Green Zone and other parts of the capital Tuesday, seeking to arrest the country's culture minister in connection with an attempted political assassination two years ago in which three people were killed, Iraqi...