Five Iraqi police were injured in separate attacks yesterday in northern Iraq as Shiite pilgrims continued to bury people killed in simultaneous bombings of holy shrines in Baghdad and Kerbala.
A US Army spokesman said that a rocket struck the green zone where the headquarters of the US-led occupation authority is located after five large explosions rumbled through the center of the capital late Wednesday. No one was injured and no damage was reported.
In Ramadi, 110km west of the capital, Baghdad, nearly 1,000 people rallied to condemn the near simultaneous attacks against Shiite shrines Tuesday and called for national unity.
Near the northern city of Mosul, the Sheik Fatihi police station was attacked with a homemade bomb and insurgents who shot at it from a car as they drove by, said Mahir Salam, an official at the Al-Jumhuri Hospital where the injured police, including an officer, were taken.
US and Iraqi officials disagreed over how many people died in Tuesday's bombings in Baghdad and Kerbala -- the deadliest here since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi Governing Council said that 271 people were killed. US officials put the toll at 117.
In a sign of the bitterness over the lack of security, several thousand Shiites chanted anti-US slogans in one funeral procession.
"No, no, Americans! No, no Israel! No, no, terrorists!" they shouted, carrying three coffins through Karbala's streets. Some took a sheet painted to look like an American flag and set it ablaze.
Taiwan’s exports soared to an all-time high of US$61.8 billion last month, surging 49.7 percent from a year earlier, as the global frenzy for artificial intelligence (AI) applications and new consumer electronics powered shipments of high-tech goods, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday. It was the first time exports had exceeded the US$60 billion mark, fueled by the global boom in AI development that has significantly boosted Taiwanese companies across the international supply chain, Department of Statistics Director-General Beatrice Tsai (蔡美娜) told a media briefing. “There is a consensus among major AI players that the upcycle is still in its early stage,”
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