Cafe attacks in Iraq kill 17

Attacks mostly targeting cafes in and around Baghdad killed 17 people, officials said yesterday, the latest violence to spark concern of a revival of all-out sectarian war.
The blasts on Thursday evening struck cafes in a mostly Sunni Arab neighbourhood of Baghdad, the central city of Baquba, and a town south of the capital, and came as Iraq grapples with a longstanding political deadlock and months of protests among the Sunni Arab minority.