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Attacks in Iraq kill over 40, sectarian tensions high

Baghdad: A series of bomb and gun attacks across Iraq killed more than 40 people on Tuesday, a day after over 70 died in violence targeting majority Shi'ites that has stoked fears of all-out sectarian war with minority Sunnis.

Nearly 300 people have been killed in the past week as sectarian tensions, fuelled by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, threaten to plunge Iraq back into communal bloodletting.

Ten years after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraq's Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds have yet to find a stable power-sharing deal and violence is again on the upswing.

In the biggest single incident on Tuesday, a car bomb exploded near a Sunni mosque in the Abu Ghraib area of western Baghdad killing 11 people and wounding 21, police and medics said....more    

Death toll in Baghdad bomb blasts rises to 51

Shi'ite slum targeted; fears of country returning to ethnic violence returns. ...  

Shias, Sunnis eager to bridge sectoral divide

New Delhi: Former captain Sunil Gavaskar on Friday came down heavily on the Indian cricket team after the conclusion of its disastrous tour Down Under, saying it was hard to understand the psyche of Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men. When they get through an achievement like a fifty, hundred or a wicket they snarl, snap and swear but when they drop a catch, they smile... it should be the other way...  

National Wipes: News wrap-up from across India

Islamabad: Pakistan chief selector Mohsin Khan is unhappy with some of the players selected for the Test series against West Indies and says he will "resign if they are not replaced by Wednesday afternoon." Khan told The Associated Press on Tuesday that his selections were ignored in the 15-member squad for the two-test series. He says he will give a news conference on Wednesday evening. The Pakistan Cricket Board has ...

Srinagar tense as groups clash on Muharram

Harare: Elton Chigumbura has resigned as Zimbabwe cricket captain to focus on improving his own form. The 25-year-old all-rounder was appointed captain in May last year as replacement for spinner Prosper Utseya, but his own performances have suffered under the pressure of the captaincy. He was sharply criticized after the teams disappointing results at the recent World Cup. Chigumbura told local newspaper Newsday on Friday that I have thought long...  

'Saddam aide got beheaded by noose'

There has been anger in Iraq over the alleged beheading of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti during his hanging on Tuesday. ...