In Iraq, at least 29 people have been killed and 111 have been injured in two near-simultaneous car bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad today. Iraqi National news agency quoting police sources has reported that in one of the incidents, nineteen people were killed when a bomb went off in the busy Adan juncture near an office of the national security ministry in the north-western Kadhimiya district as people were heading to work. Another car bomb in the western Mansour district killed 10 people outside a restaurant and the office of a phone company Asiacell. 111 people were wounded in the two explosions. Meanwhile, three mortar shells landed in west Baghdad’s Green Zone today with no reports about human or material damage. The Green Zone which is the home to the U.S., British and several other embassies, along with a number of Iraqi government offices, had been target for several mortar and rocket attacks since US forces attacked Iraq