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Last Updated 9:46 a.m. ET (AP) BAGHDAD – Market blasts and other bombings across Iraq killed at least 33 people and wounded nearly 100 on Tuesday, spooking an already-rattled public and spurring security officials to clamp down on traffic as Shiite Muslims brace for more tragedy during pilgrimages this week. The wave of morning bombings struck four Iraqi cities, the worst hit being Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, where an explosives-laden vegetable truck detonated in a crowded market, killing 25 people and leaving 40 injured. Vegetable seller Salah Abbas, 41, described a scene of chaos after the explosion ripped through the crowd. “There were many charred bodies on the ground,” said Abbas, who rushed to help wounded fellow merchants before ambulances arrived. He managed to push one to safety in a cart, but two other colleagues died at the market. “People screaming and crying – some were coming in to get their relatives while others were running out. Then rumors spread of more car bombs, and people ran run out of the market in panic,” he added. Tuesday’s attacks come as hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims head to the holy city of Karbala this week for religious ceremonies that are expected to peak on Friday. Shiite pilgrimages are a favorite target of Sunni insurgents linked to al Qaeda, and attacks timed to strike during a similar march...

(AP) PAMPLONA, Spain – Tens of thousands of revelers showered each other with sparkling wine and waved red kerchiefs Friday as the blast of a small rocket signaled the start of this year’s running of the bulls. Spain’s most famous summer festival kicked off in the jam-packed and cobblestoned main square of the northern town of Pamplona. People from around the world, many wearing the traditional red kerchief and white shirt and pants, roared their approval as an official on a city hall balcony declared the San Fermin festival under way. He then lit the rocket, its boom echoing through the plaza. Revelers sprayed each other with white wine, water and other liquids, and pelted each other with flour, making for a pasty but merry mess. Huge plastic balls used to advertise products and services bounced atop the crowd. “It looked like a giant food fight,” said Andrea Smith, 33, 카지노사이트 a member of the U.S. military stationed in Italy. A native of Coxsackie, New York, she had come to Pamplona on leave just to watch all the fun — not to test her luck with the 500-plus kilogram (1,100-pound) beasts that are the stars of the show. Lindsay Erdall, a 25-year-old nurse from Montana, called the opening party “the craziest thing I have ever seen.” “I have been here for the setup, and now that it has started...

Last Updated 9:46 a.m. ET (AP) BAGHDAD – Market blasts and other bombings across Iraq killed at least 33 people and wounded nearly 100 on Tuesday, spooking an already-rattled public and spurring security officials to clamp down on traffic as Shiite Muslims brace for more tragedy during pilgrimages this week. The wave of morning bombings struck four Iraqi cities, the worst hit being Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, where an explosives-laden vegetable truck detonated in a crowded market, killing 25 people and leaving 40 injured. Vegetable seller Salah Abbas, 41, described a scene of chaos after the explosion ripped through the crowd. “There were many charred bodies on the ground,” said Abbas, who rushed to help wounded fellow merchants before ambulances arrived. He managed to push one to safety in a cart, but two other colleagues died at the market. “People screaming and crying – some were coming in to get their relatives while others were running out. Then rumors spread of more car bombs, and people ran run out of the market in panic,” he added. Tuesday’s attacks come as hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims head to the holy city of Karbala this week for religious ceremonies that are expected to peak on Friday. Shiite pilgrimages are a favorite target of Sunni insurgents linked to al Qaeda, and attacks timed to strike during a similar march...