Two car bombs at cattle market kill five in southern Iraq

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DIWANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two blasts at a busy cattle market in a mainly Shi'ite city in southern Iraq on Friday killed at least 5 people and injured dozens more, police and medics said, as Iraq's precarious sectarian balance comes under growing strain. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks immediately, but Sunni Muslim insurgents have been redoubling their efforts to undermine the Shi'ite-led government and spark deeper intercommunal fighting since the start of the year. Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's power-sharing government has been all but paralyzed since U.S. ...

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