Iraq's leader condemns latest round of bombings

Iraq’s prime minister has condemned the latest round of bombings that left dozens of his countrymen dead, and vowed that his government’s “rational, political struggle” would prevail over “criminal acts”.

Ibrahim al-Jaafari, speaking at a news conference in Dearborn, near Detroit in the US, said: “I share with the people their sorrow and their grief. They are martyrs.”