Malik Javed, an employee of the Pakistan embassy in Baghdad, was kidnapped April 9 people who claimed to be from the Omar bin Khattab group.
The explosions came a day after American forces regained tenuous control of the rebel stronghold of Samarra, 60 km north of Baghdad, and continued airstrikes on selected targets in the city of Fallujah in the west.
There is confusion whether the seven hostages, including three Indians, held by an Iraqi militant group have been released.
Iraqi civilian drowned after being forced to jump off a bridge in Baghdad
The injured soldiers' doctor is the lanky 30-year-old son of Indian immigrants from Kolkata.
A Shia leader who was the main target of the suicide bomber was not in office when the blast occurred.
Truck driver Thomas Hamill was among seven people abducted after an April 9 attack on their convoy west of Baghdad.
The seven Chinese entered Iraq via Jordan on Sunday morning and were most probably abducted in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Xinhua news agency quoted a Chinese diplomat as saying.
Recently the agency had to sack its top officer in Baghdad amid questions about his ability to lead the gargantuan station there.
Brent hit a session high of $114.69 a barrel, its loftiest since September last year.
A truck driver in Kuwait says they have no information about the megotiations on to free the Indian hostages.
'The bigger challenge and dilemma for Pakistan would be if the US and Saudi Arabia go full throttle against Iran and enforce regime change in Tehran.' 'That would be bad news for Pakistan, especially with the current instability in Balochistan,' notes Brigadier Narender Kumar (retd).
Tech stocks proved a major focus of the market on Monday after HCL Tech announced the bagging of a major overseas BPO order.
Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his brother Said, 34, accused of carrying out the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris, managed to slip under the radar despite them being on counterterrorism agencies' radar for years before Wednesday's attack.
The US deputy defence secretary was in the Rashid Hotel when rockets slammed into it.
Members accused Washington of acting as a "big bully" saying that its wants to wage war against Iraq to take control of the countrys huge oil resources.
The US would 'welcome and support' a new UN Security Council resolution if it highlights the world body's resolve, he said.
He is demanding safe exit to the former soviet republic of Belarus, The Sunday Mirror said.
This contradicts the earlier US claim that the former Iraqi president was hand-in-glove with Osama bin Laden.
In his brief chat with Musharraf, Annan discussed the security of the UN staff, its officers and its aid programme, Pakistani news agency NNI quoted UN officials saying.
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