Car bombs kill five in Iraqi city

A double car-bombing has killed five people and wounded scores more in the Iraqi city of Karbala.

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Confusion over kidnap in Pakistan

Police in Pakistan have dismissed reports a British boy who was kidnapped last week has been released. Five-year-old Sahil Saeed from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was seized by an armed gang while staying with relatives last week. A Punjab minister has now said that the boy was found on Wednesday and has been handed over to his father

Irish ‘plot to kill cartoonist’

Seven people have been arrested in the Irish Republic over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting the Prophet Muhammad, police say. The four men and three women are all Muslim, according to media reports, though a police statement did not confirm this.

Deadly crush at Timbuktu mosque

Sixteen people, mostly women and children, have been killed in a crush at the famous Djinguereber mosque in Timbuktu, sources have told the BBC.

Pakistan bombings: PM urges calm

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has appealed for calm after two bombings in the city of Karachi killed 25 people and injured dozens more. The attacks – the second at a hospital where victims of the first attack were being treated – targeted Shia pilgrims

Karachi bomb kills Shia Muslims

A bomb has exploded in the Pakistani city of Karachi, with several people feared injured or dead, police say.

Bombings hit Iraq Shia pilgrims

Two suicide bombers have killed at least 10 people and injured 25 in the outskirts of Karbala in Iraq, reports from Iraqi police say. One report, quoting the city’s governor, says that 27 people died. Approximately a million Shia Muslim pilgrims are in the city to visit the Imam Hussein shrine at the end of a Arbaeen commemorations.

Pilgrims killed in Iraq explosion

A suicide bombing in the Iraqi city of Karbala has killed at least 15 pilgrims travelling to a Shia festival. Scores were wounded in the attack on the route to an important Shia shrine, health officials said. A suicide bomber rode a motorcycle towing a cart laden with explosives into the crowd, Iraqi police have told the BBC

Female bomber kills Iraq pilgrims

At least 16 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on pilgrims in north-east Baghdad, police say. A woman detonated her suicide vest in Boub El Sham district at a refreshment stall as pilgrims walked by. The targets were Shia pilgrims who are continuing to mark the Arbaeen, the end of 40 days of mourning for the death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson

Suicide city

By Zubair Ahmed BBC News, Mumbai A writer once said that more than one soul dies in a suicide. It seems so in Neha Sawant’s home. The atmosphere in the tiny flat in Mumbai has been lifeless since the 11-year-old was found hanging from her apartment window

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