News; Iraqi PM orders security review

Wednesday's attacks killed 95 and injured more than 500


Iraq's prime minister has ordered a security review after the deadliest series of attacks in the country this year left 95 people dead in Baghdad.

Nouri Maliki called Wednesday's bombings "a desperate attempt to derail the political process" in Iraq.

They included two truck bombings close to government ministries located in a part of the capital which has generally not been targeted in recent months.

Iraqi forces took control of security in Baghdad from US troops in late June.

Though violence in the country has fallen since the peaks of 2006 and 2007, it continues to be the target of frequent bomb attacks.

Mr Maliki blamed the latest strikes on al-Qaida in Iraq and loyalists of the late president, Saddam Hussein, who was toppled after US-led forces invaded in 2003.