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At least 57 recruits and soldiers were killed and 123 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at an army recruitment centre in Baghdad on Tuesday, two weeks before the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq.

Former Italian president Francesco Cossiga, a veteran politician who also served as prime minister and interior minister during a 50-year-long career, died on Tuesday aged 82.

At least 47 recruits and soldiers were killed and 77 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at an army recruitment centre in Baghdad on Tuesday, two weeks before the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq.

At least 47 people were killed and 77 wounded by a suicide bomber on Tuesday outside an army recruitment centre in the centre of the Iraqi capital, authorities said.

A former Israeli soldier said on Tuesday she saw nothing wrong in having posted pictures of herself on Facebook posing next to handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainees.

The toll from a suicide bombing at an Iraqi army recruitment centre on Tuesday rose to 47 killed and 77 wounded, a deputy health minister said.

At least 39 recruits and soldiers were killed and 57 wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army recruitment centre in the centre of the Iraqi capital, authorities said.

China's military modernisation raises the risk of "misunderstanding and miscalculation," the Pentagon said in an annual assessment released on Monday, following naval tensions in the seas off China's shore.

The game of military bluff that China and the United States are playing off the Chinese coast could erupt in full-fledged crisis hitting the arteries of global trade if Pentagon worries about missteps ever come true.

The radar of a Japanese supertanker that was damaged by an explosion near the Strait of Hormuz last month showed a small ship making suspicious movements near it at the time of the incident, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said on Tuesday.