Bomber hits Iraqi local council

A suicide attacker has killed at least 11 people at a tribal council meeting in Karma, a town near Falluja, Iraqi police said. More than a dozen people were wounded in the blast, police added. Garma is in the mainly Sunni Muslim province of Anbar, formerly a centre of the anti-US insurgency but which has recently seen a drop in violence. It is the third attack in a week against a local administrative branch of the US-backed Iraqi... [read full story]