Bomb blast strikes Iraq holy city
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An explosion rocks Iraq's holy city Karbala killing seven people as campaigning starts for January's election.
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A bomb exploded near the office of a senior Shi&#39;ite cleric in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 32 in a failed attempt on the cleric&#39;s life, officials said.
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A car bomb explodes in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing 10 people and wounding at least seven.
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A car bomb explodes in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing at least six people and injuring more than 20.
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Thirty people were killed and 65 wounded in a car bomb blast near the Imam Ali shrine in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf on Sunday, a hospital official said.
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A car bomb exploded near a US military convoy in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least one Iraqi civilian and injuring at least two others, witnesses and the US army said.
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NAJAF/KERBALA, Iraq  - Suicide car bombers struck  Iraq's two major Shi'ite holy cities, killing at least 44  people and wounding more than 100 on Sunday, six weeks before a  historic election.
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BAGHDAD - A deadly bomb blast in the holy Shiite city of Karbala and furious criticism of Shiite politicians by Iraq&#39;s defense minister cast a pall over the official launch Wednesday of Iraq&#39;s election campaign, threatening to inflame sectarian tension
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Car bombs ripped through the Iraqi Shiite holy cities of Karbala and Najaf near major religious shrines, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 100.
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A bomb exploded in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey on Thursday, apparently targeting a military convoy.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Suicide car bombers hit Iraq's  two main Shi'ite holy cities, Kerbala and Najaf, killing at  least 23 people and wounding dozens more Sunday, six weeks to  the day before an historic election.
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Najaf - Thirty people were killed in a car bomb blast on Sunday near a major religious shrine in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf, a hospital official said, shortly after a similar attack in the sister city of Karbala.
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A suicide car bomb exploded Wednesday at a busy Iraqi police checkpoint in the holy city of Najaf, killing at least eight people and wounding 43 others, police said. The casualties included both police and civilians.
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A suicide bomber attacks an Iraqi mosque during the Shia festival of Ashura, killing at least seven people, police say.
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A bomb exploded at the gate of one of Shia Islam's holiest shrines on Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding 31 others, including a top aide of Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, officials said.
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A suicide car bomb exploded outside a  Shi'ite mosque northeast of Baghdad as worshippers were leaving  a religious ceremony Friday, killing at least 13 people, local  police said.
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A bomb strapped to a motorcycle exploded in the center of Baghdad Thursday, killing at least nine people and injuring 21, police said.