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BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber apparently targeting a senior security official blew himself up inside a funeral tent Monday in a village north of Baghdad, killing 18 people.
There was no claim of responsibility for the bombing in Hajaj, but police said it bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida militants.
Witnesses said about 70 people were inside the tent when the attacker set off his explosives soon after entering.
Officials said the target appeared to be Ahmed Abdullah, deputy governor in charge of security for Salahuddin province, of which Tikrit is the capital. He escaped unharmed.
Tablets containing a combination of the blood pressure medication aliskiren and water pill hydrochlorothiazide have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the product’s manufacturer, Novartis AG, said Monday.
Sold under the name Tekturna in the United States, it acts by targeting renin, an enzyme responsible for high blood pressure. The tablets also include hydrochlorothiazide, a compound that inhibits the kidney’s ability to retain water.
Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani saw a one-time commanding lead in his home state of New York vanish in the face of a resurgent Arizona Sen. John McCain, according to two polls released Monday.
The WNBC/Marist Poll in New York shows McCain beating Giuliani 32 percent to 22 percent, followed by Mitt Romney at 14 percent, Mike Huckabee at 11 percent and Fred Thompson at 4 percent. A second poll, by Siena College Research Institute, put McCain ahead with 36 percent and Giuliani second with 24 percent. Romney had 10 percent, Huckabee 7 percent and Thompson 6 percent.
A Milwaukee woman who said she placed her 2-week-old twins in a bathtub and watched them struggle in the water was charged Monday with homicide after one boy died.
Alisa Lorraine Evans, 38, who was upset about the recent shooting death of her adult son in Texas, also was charged with the attempted homicide of the other twin, who was expected to survive, records said.
She told investigators she put the twins on their backs in the water and took them out when they stopped moving.
The U.N. Security Council’s five permanent members and Germany are expected to agree today on a new resolution to pressure Iran over its nuclear program, a French diplomat said.
The senior diplomat, who briefed reporters Monday on condition that he not be named, said an agreement should be finalized by the six nation’s foreign ministers at a meeting in Berlin, Germany.
Israel agreed to allow limited supplies of fuel, medicine and food into the Gaza Strip today, easing a blockade that left large parts of the Palestinian territory without electricity and drew international protests.
The promise of relief followed a sharp decline in the rocket attacks from Gaza that had prompted Israel to halt the shipments Thursday.
A bus carrying Hindus on a religious pilgrimage skidded off a hillside road and plunged into a gorge in western India, killing at least 38 people and injuring 40 others, police said Monday.
At least five children, 17 women and 16 men died in the accident just before midnight Sunday in the Nashik district of Maharashtra state
Government negotiators and rebel groups reached a deal to end fighting in Congo’s restive east, where 800,000 people had to flee their homes over the past year, officials said Monday.
All parties agreed to the accord and scheduled a formal signing for today, Vital Kamerhe, the president of Congo’s national assembly, announced.
One of Liberia’s most notorious rebel commanders, known as Gen. Butt Naked for charging into battle wearing only boots, has returned to confess his role in terrorizing the nation, saying he is responsible for 20,000 deaths.
Joshua Milton Blahyi, who now lives in Ghana, returned last week to face his homeland’s truth and reconciliation commission.
Blahyi dated the beginning of his murders to 1982, when he was ordained as a ritual priest responsible for making human sacrifices before battle.
