Iraq twin bombings kill seven

A car bomb followed minutes later by a suicide bombing in the western Iraq city of Ramadi Monday killed at least seven people, four of them police, and wounded 51, a police official said."A car bomb exploded near the Anbar provincial government offices around 9:30 am (0630 GMT) followed about 15 minutes later by a suicide bombing," said a police spokesman, Rahim Zebinem."Seven people were killed, including four police, and 51 were injured, among them women and children."

QUETTA, Pakistan — A series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 103 people on Thursday, including 69 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said. The blasts punctuated one of the deadliest days in recent years in Pakistan, where the government faces a bloody insurgency by Taliban militants in the northwest and Baluch militants in the southwest.

A suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives in the centre of the western Iraqi city of Ramadi Sunday, killing eight people including six policemen, police and a doctor said.The blast occurred at around 10:00 am (0700 GMT) near the offices of the Anbar provincial government, and also left 35 people wounded, according to police Major Rahim Zabin and a doctor at Ramadi hospital."A suicide car bomb targeted a police checkpoint in the centre of the city, about 200 metres (yards) from the Anbar government offices," Zabin said.

KARACHI, Pakistan — A car bomb exploded outside a mosque on Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a neighbourhood dominated by Shiite Muslims in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi. No one has taken responsibility for the bombing, but Shiites Muslims have been increasingly targeted by Sunni militant groups in Karachi, Pakistan’s economic hub and site of years of police, sectarian and ethnic violence.

Two suicide car bombings killed five people and wounded 15 on Monday at the entrance to Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone, where an Arab League summit is to be held next month.Officials said the bombings occurred at around 8:30 am (0530 GMT) at the western gate of the Green Zone, which houses the offices of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi parliament and the US and British embassies.A queue of cars was waiting to enter the Green Zone when the vehicles exploded, a security official said.

Two bomb attacks in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south on Wednesday killed two people and wounded another 27, including three seriously, police said.The first blast went off in Yala, the main town in the province of the same name, at 10:15 am (0315 GMT) in front of a car showroom, wounding eight people.The second exploded nearby around ten minutes later, injuring rescue workers and police who had come to investigate the first attack, police said, blaming suspected Islamic insurgents for the bombings.

A suicide attacker blew up a bomb-filled car at a central Iraqi police headquarters on Thursday, killing two policemen and a female journalist in the third attack on local forces in as many days.A separate roadside bomb in southern Baghdad, meanwhile, killed a Shiite pilgrim as worshippers gathered for Arbaeen commemoration ceremonies, with the latest attacks shattering a relative calm in Iraq following Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's formation of a new government a month ago.

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber driving a vehicle packed with explosives blew himself up outside the offices of a major Kurdish party in northern Iraq early Wednesday, the deadliest in a wave of morning attacks that killed at least 31 people across the country.