BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities said Monday that suicide bombers had used two large trucks — a water tanker and a refrigerated food truck — in attacks Sunday that killed at least 155 people and wounded nearly 600, the deadliest bombings since 2007.
Among the dead were 24 children leaving a day care center, according to local news reports. Two hundred Iraqis were reported missing after the explosives-filled trucks blew up a minute apart Sunday morning outside government ministries and the Baghdad city offices.
An Interior Ministry official, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he isn’t authorized to make public statements, said the water tanker was packed with C-4, plastic explosives, and the refrigerated truck contained TNT, a chemical compound widely used in bomb-making.
11 Iranians arrested in Pakistan as tensions rise
QUETTA, Pakistan — Pakistan arrested 11 Iranians Monday near the countries’ border amid tensions over a deadly suicide attack in Iran that Tehran alleges has links to Pakistani intelligence officials.
Authorities first said the 11 were members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, but then reversed course and identified them only as security officers. They were arrested after shooting out the tires of a car carrying smugglers, Pakistan authorities said.
The arrests could add to the strain between the two volatile nations triggered by the Oct. 18 attack on the Iranian side of the border.
Iran hints it could ship some uranium abroad
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran hinted Monday it could agree to ship some low-enriched uranium abroad for processing as reactor fuel as the world awaited its reply on a U.N.-drafted nuclear plan aimed at easing tensions with the West.
But the step might not be enough to defuse the tensions, and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki also left open the possibility Iran may snub the proposal and instead seek to buy the nuclear fuel it needs for a research reactor that makes medical isotopes.
Disgraced cloning expert convicted in South Korear
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean stem cell scientist once hailed as a hero for bringing hope to people with incurable diseases and creating the world’s first cloned dog was convicted Monday on criminal charges related to faked research, but avoided jail.
The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Hwang Woo-suk to two years in prison for embezzling research funds and illegally buying human eggs.
However, it suspended the penalty, allowing him to stay free if he breaks no laws for three years.
— Herald wire services
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