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Killings in Yemen, bombings in Iraq


Suspected al Qaeda gunmen killed five Yemeni soldiers; car bombs killed nearly 100 and wounded hundreds more across Iraq over the weekend. More via Reuters:

Gun attacks and a bombing killed at least seven more people in Iraq on Sunday, police said, after a day of carnage aimed mainly at Shi'ite Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan.

The United States condemned a wave of car bombings which police and medical sources said killed nearly 80 people across Iraq on Saturday, saying those who had attacked civilians during Eid al-Fitr festivities were "enemies of Islam".



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