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A foreign national is evacuated soon after a car bomb ripped through Saadoun street in Baghdad, Iraq /AP
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At least 17 people are dead and nearly 100 others wounded in car bombings in the Iraqi capital and the northern city of Mosul.
Fourteen people died in two Baghdad bombings. The first occurred near a recruitment office of the Iraqi National Guard, just outside an entry gate for the city's heavily fortified Green Zone. A second bombing in a hotel district killed six other people.
Authorities say the blast in Mosul killed at least three people, including two bombers whose car may have blown up prematurely.
Elsewhere Monday, an Iraqi police commander was assassinated near Baquba, and a senior science ministry official was killed in Baghdad.
Meanwhile, U.S. airstrikes are continuing in insurgent-held Fallujah. U.S. officials say the latest strikes targeted two buildings believed used by insurgents.
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