#Baghdad attacks kill nine
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Attacks and shelling in Baghdad and northern and western #Iraq killed nine people on Monday, officials said, as electoral authorities counted ballot papers from last week’s general election. The bloodshed is the latest in a protracted surge in unrest that the government has blamed on external factors such as the civil war in neighbouring Syria. Analysts and diplomats, however, say it is at least partly due to anger in the minority Sunni Arab community over alleged mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led authorities. read more