Attacks Kill 35; Turnout Heavy Among Shiites and Kurds
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At the day's end, election officials in Baghdad estimated that the nationwide turnout could exceed 60 percent.
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Bombers and gunmen killed 40 people in attacks on Shi'ite worshippers marking the religious Ashura ritual on Tuesday, amid heightened tension between Iraq's majority Shi'ite Muslim community and once-dominant Sunni Arabs.
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BAGHDAD -- Bombers struck Shi'ite worshipers in two cities yesterday and gunmen ambushed a busload of pilgrims in a series of attacks that killed at least 58 people as more than 2 million Shi'ites jammed major shrines for ceremonies marking Ashoura, the holiest day of the Shi'ite calendar.
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A huge blast tore through a crowded  Baghdad market close to an Iraqi police station on Tuesday and  Reuters witnesses said at least 35 people were killed.
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Three bombs exploded at a neighborhood celebration today in western Baghdad, killing 35 children and seven adults, officials said.
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At least 40 people die in attacks across Iraq at the climax of the Shia Muslim religious festival of Ashura.
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At least 115 people are killed in a series of blasts in the Shia Sadr City area of the Iraqi capital, sources say.
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Two bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, leave at least 29 people dead, among them a group of Shia pilgrims.
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BAGHDAD -- Suicide attacks across Iraq killed at least 144 people and injured scores in an 18-hour period, including a massive truck bombing in a northern Shi'ite village that ripped through a crowded market, burying dozens in the rubble of shops and mud houses, Iraqi officials said yesterday.
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NAJAF/KERBALA, Iraq  - Suicide car bombers struck  Iraq's two main Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala  Sunday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 100,  six weeks before a historic election.
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A bomb near a Shi'ite shrine killed eight people and a fierce attack on Iran by a minister fueled fears of sectarian strife when campaigning began on Wednesday for Iraq's first election since Saddam Hussein's fall.
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BAGHDAD -- A vegetable truck rigged with explosives blew up yesterday outside a Shi'ite mosque northeast of Baghdad, and gunmen sprayed automatic fire into a bakery in a Shi'ite district of the capital in sectarian violence that killed at least 23 people.
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Fighting and a suicide bombing killed at least 40 people across Iraq in weekend violence. The figure includes a revised death toll of 15 from a car bomb in Kirkuk Saturday, down from an initial figure of 25.
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At least 23 people were killed in a series of attack launched by the insurgents in Iraq. This brought the total death toll from three days of violence to more than 70.
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BAGHDAD, June 25 -- Five bombings struck Iraq on Monday, killing at least 54 people, including 12 who died in a suicide attack at a Baghdad hotel frequented by members of Iraq's parliament and Chinese diplomats, U.S. military and Iraqi security officials said.
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A bomb near a Shi&#39;ite shrine killed eight people and a fierce attack on Iran by a minister fueled fears of sectarian strife when campaigning began on Wednesday for
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Insurgents in Iraq have launched a series of attacks which killed 23 people on Sunday. This brings the total death toll from three days of violence to more than 70.