Car bombs, shooting in Iraq kill four people

BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials say a shooting and two car bombs have killed four people and wounded 26 in the western and northern parts of the country.

Police officials say the deadliest attack took place on Wednesday morning when gunmen sprayed a police checkpoint with bullets in the western city of Fallujah, killing three policemen.

In the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, police say a car bomb exploded near the offices of a Kurdish party, wounding 20 people.

Six of a family killed, wounded in Uruzgan blast

TIRINKOT : Six people of a family were killed and wounded in a roadside bombing in the Charchino district of central Uruzgan province, an official said on Wednesday.

A man and two of his children were killed and three women injured when the vehicle they were travelling in struck a roadside bomb in Sakhir area late Tuesday evening.

Police spokesman Farid Ayel told Pajhwok Afghan News the injured had been evacuated to a local hospital. However, he would not comment on their condition.

Fifteen killed in car bomb explosion in Damascus

A car bomb rocked a busy residential and commercial district in central Damascus on Monday, killing at least 15 people and causing heavy material damage, a Syrian government official said.

The blast, which state-run Syrian TV described as a terrorist suicide bombing, went off near the Sabaa Bahrat Square, one of the capital’s biggest roundabouts. The Syrian Central Bank, a mosque and a school are located nearby.

Anti-government strike hits Bangladesh

DHAKA: Opposition activists have detonated small homemade bombs and set fire to several vehicles in the latest anti-government protest to hit Bangladesh’s capital, police said.  

Bangladesh’s main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its 17 allies staged the protest to enforce a nationwide strike Tuesday to press for the release of more than 150 opposition members arrested during earlier anti-government protests.