http://en.rian.ru/world/20070310/61794715.html

MOSCOW, March 10 (RIA Novosti) - At least 28 people have been killed and 36 wounded in a powerful explosion of a car bomb that hit an eastern Shiite district of Baghdad Saturday, the Al-Jazeera television channel said citing police sources.

The source said the victims of the blast in Sadr-City included three Iraqi servicemen.

Baghdad is hosting an international conference on Iraq convened by the Iraqi Shiite-led government in the Green Zone in central Baghdad.

Two mortars exploded in the area near the venue of the conference, the Foreign Ministry building, earlier Saturday, Al-Arabia television said quoting police. No victims have been reported. Russian officials are attending the conference.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/10/iraq.meeting/

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide car bomb killed at least 20 civilians in a Shiite militant stronghold in Baghdad Saturday as international leaders attended a conference aimed ending the bloodshed.

The blast, which hit a busy traffic circle in Sadr City, also left 45 injured, police told CNN.

Separately, two mortar rounds landed inside the fortified Green Zone compound near the Iraqi Foreign Ministry building where delegates were discussing Iraqi security. No damage or casualties resulted, the military said.

Saturday's conference, which sees U.S. diplomats sit down with their Iranian and Syrian counterparts for the first time in decades, opened with appeals from Iraq's PM not to use his country as a "battleground" for international disputes.

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