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Coordinated blasts killed at least 25 people in the heart of Baghdad on Thursday near the heavily fortified Green Zone, where several Western embassies are located, police and medics said. HT Image No one immediately claimed responsibility for the explosions, but Sunni Muslim insurgents have been redoubling their efforts to undermine Iraq s Shi ite-led government and foment inter-communal conflict this
stanley cup year. The brazen attacks in broad daylight will fan concerns about Iraq s fragile security, which has come under growing strain as the increasingly sectarian conflict in neighboring Syria threatens to upset its own Sunni-Shi ite balance. Police said two car bombs exploded in the Alawi district, one of them near the justice ministry building, before a suicide car bomber blew himself up near an interior ministry office. A suicide bomber then walked into the Justice Ministry and militants attacked the building, clashing with Iraqi security forces, who eventually regained control. I went to the second floor to do something when I heard a big explosion, then a second one, said Ammar Ghanim, a policeman who was inside the ministry at the time of the attack. We heard shooting and a few minutes later three attackers wearing military unifo
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Ahead of the British prime minister s India visit, the mainstream British media described it as a test of David Cameron s pragmatism and observed that Britain needs India more. HT Image The newspapers acknowledge India as a rising global economic power, advising the British delegation that B
air force 1 ritain needs a special relationship with the country more than India does. The Times writes in a leader titled India Rising that Cameron s trip underlines a shift in g
jordan lobal economic power. Greater commercial ties and support for a nation threatened by terrorism are in the UK s interest . Its message to Cameron is: British governments with an instinct to offer unsolicited advice have sometimes aggravated tensions in the Indian sub
hoka -continent. Mr Cameron should stick to a clear message in his talks with Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Both countries have suffered from attacks by Islamist terrorists. India s status as a democracy embodying ethnic and religious pluralism would make it a natural ally for the UK, regardless of historical, literary and economic links. India is a crucial regional actor and an emerging power. Most of all, it must be a force for modernity. The Financial Times, in its story headlined Cameron leads delegation to court India , says some diplomats are queasy at the idea in the coalition agreement that Britain should seek a new special relationship with India . They fear India will see such talk as patronising, not least since over the
