BBC
Nine Iraqis have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on an office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
The PUK is Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's political party.
Police officials have warned that the death toll could climb as rescuers search the rubble. Dozens of people were injured in the attack.
Mosul is a religiously and ethnically mixed city 390km (240 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad.
A police spokesman said the bomber detonated a truck full of explosives in the PUK office car park.
At least four Kurdish peshmerga security personnel and five civilians were killed.
Last week, the PUK's offices in southern Iraq were ransacked after the party's official newspaper published an article which alleged a Shia cleric was fanning sectarian tension in Kirkuk.
In Karbala, south of Baghdad, a curfew has been imposed after heavy fighting broke out between gunmen and Iraqi security forces.
A local health official told the Associated Press news agency that six people had been killed in the clashes.
The fighting began after Iraqi soldiers raided the religious school of an anti-American cleric, Mahmoud al-Hassani......
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