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BAGHDAD — A series of bombings, beheadings and shootings rippled through Iraq on Monday, leaving at least 23 people dead, including 9 children, and intensifying concern about a spike in violence with less than two weeks until national elections.

But opponents claim that the bill would break international human-rights agreements and, by intensifying concern about the armed forces' human-rights record, might jeopardise foreign aid to Colombia.Such fears appeared to lie behind Mr Bell's appointment as defence minister.

The deaths are intensifying concerns about risks to ordinary Iraqis now trapped in the city.

Lord Deben's intervention comes as record high temperatures are being set across much of the world, intensifying concerns about climate change.

HONG KONG — The euro fell to a one-year low against the dollar on Friday amid intensifying concerns about the Greek economy and its impact on the other 15 countries that share the euro currency.

Across the country, cities are showing a renewed interest in taking over the electricity business from private utilities, reflecting intensifying concerns about climate change, responses to power disruptions and a desire to pump more renewable energy into the grid.

Britain's trading position with the rest of the world was much worse than feared in the opening months of this year, intensifying concerns about how the economy will fare outside the EU.

By this time last year, University officials knew that they were in for a year of rough sledding — with intensifying concerns about the pace of the U.S. economic recovery, Europe's worsening financial crisis, and a slowdown in fast-growing economies like China's.

LONDON — Stocks tumbled in Europe and on Wall Street on Thursday led by banks, while bond yields gyrated amid intensifying concerns about the weakening global growth outlook and the euro zone's ability to find a path out of its debt crisis.

Despite intensifying concerns about Wall Street's credibility, Goldman Sachs Group on Thursday bet that individual investors still want what stock analysts and investment banks are selling.

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