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A car bomb has exploded in the Iraqi city of Karbala, killing at least fifty five people. The attack near one of Shiite Islam's holy shrines is the second in the area in the past two weeks. The BBC's Humphery. Hauksley. in Baghdad describes this latest attack.
A devastating sophisticated car bomb, like the daily ones that we get here in Iraq, are suspected to be almost certainly the Sunni insurgency inspired by Al-Qaeda. It’s thought with the motive to try to promote more sectarian violence.

Earlier the powerful Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr criticized President Bush for refusing to establish a timetable for a US troop withdrawal from Iraq. In a statement to read out on his behalf from the Iraqi parliament the cleric said the situation in Iraq could not be any worse following an American pullout than it was already.

The Pakistani Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao says he won't alter his determination to fight terrorism following his narrow escape from a suicide bombing which killed at least twenty two people at a rally in northwest frontier province. Television picture showed the blood-stained minister walking to his car. Cathy Jenkinsreports.
Aftab Sherpao is said to have angered militants because of his condemnation of suicide bombings and of those who resisted military operations in tribal areas where the army tried to eliminate Al-Qaeda and Taliban elements operating from there with the support of tribal leaders. The northwest frontier province which borders Afghanistan hosts a large community of Afghan refugees, most living in camps. The latest attack in the volatile province targeting a high-profile minister underlines the turbulence running through Pakistan and the problems that President Musharraf continues to face in containing it.

The Tamil tiger rebels in Sri Lanka have launched a bombing raid on oil facilities in the capital Colombo, the third such attack in a month. The extent of the damage is not known. Sri Lankan troops responded to an air raid alert by opening up with anti-aircraft batteries at a number of key locations around the city. Roland Burg. has just sent this report from Colombo.
The Tamil Tigers say they carried out the air raid in response to strikes on their strongholds in Sri Lanka’s north. The rebel’s military spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan said two squadrons of what he called the Tamil Eelam airforce took part and the pilots return to their bases. He refused to confirm how many planes were in the air. The target, he said, was strategic fuel distribution facilities. The attack came as many Sri Lankans were watching the national team playing in the cricket World Cup final.

The Turkish government has dismissed remarks by the armed forces questioning its commitment to secularism. The armed forces issued a statement on Friday expressing concern over the process to choose a new president and reaffirming their determination to protect the secular nature of the state.

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Israeli troops have shot dead three Palestinian militants in the Gaza strip and seriously wounded a fourth. The Israeli army said soldiers opened fire as the men tried to place a bomb near the border fence with Israel. The armed wing of Hamas said those killed were its members and had been on what it called a Jihadist mission.

Australia have beaten Sri Lanka by fifty three runs in a controversial World Cup final in Barbados. In what correspondents are saying was a chaotic gain to an unsatisfactory tournament. Australia prematurely began celebrating their victory when play was stopped because of bad light. But Sri Lanka successfully asked to continue their innings. Alex Cupstick. reports from Bridgetown Barbados.
A fascicle land to an unsatisfactory tournament, the match finished in near darkness after Sri Lanka insisted it bat onto the end of it’s allotted over’s, disrupting Australia’s premature celebrations. Sri Lanka’s Captain Mahela Jayawardene was clearly annoyed at Australia’s tactics of bowling it’s over slowly in the gathering gloom. Whatever the rights and wrongs in the situation, Australia once again demonstrated why it is the best team in the world. The batting led by Adam Gilchrist, who scored a century made a mockery of the Sri Lankan bowling line up, which was labeled the best of the tournament.

Estonia has accused Russia of provoking two nights of rioting over the removal of a soviet war memorial in the Estonian capital Tallinn. The Foreign Minister Urmas Paet told BBC the Russian government had made provocative statements and meddled in Estonia's internal affairs. He said for most of Estonia's population the monument symbolized the half century of Soviet occupation which ended with the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991.

Russians have been paying their final respects to the celebrated cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich who died in Moscow on Friday at the age of eighty. Thousands of people, some weeping, filed past his body in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.