International Briefs
Iraq explosions
BAGHDAD: Car bombs and other explosions ripped through Iraq’s capital and a major northern city on Tuesday, killing nine people and showing again the ease with which insurgents manage to slip past security. In Baghdad, three car bombs detonated within minutes of each other in different areas near the heavily guarded Green Zone, which houses the US Embassy, the Iraqi parliament and other government buildings. One of the bombs went off near the Foreign Ministry; two others exploded near the Immigration Ministry and the Iranian Embassy. Five people were killed and at least 16 wounded. Hours later and hundreds of miles away, in Mosul, two more car bombs an a roadside mine killed four
Kurds killed
ANKARA: A television report says an angry shopkeeper shot and killed two people after his shop was damaged by Kurdish demonstrators protesting the closure of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party. CNN-Turk television says several other protesters were injured on Tuesday in the shooting in the mainly Kurdish province of Mus. The Constitutional Court last week ruled to disband the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party on charges of ties to the Kurdish rebels. The decision triggered violent protests by Kurds nationwide and threatens to derail government efforts to grant greater rights to the minority group.
