At least 22 people have been killed and 58 wounded in car bomb blast at a marketplace on the northeastern outskirts of Baghdad.
The bomb went off in the Husseiniya district of the capital.
Earlier 12 people died and 36 were wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in the Iraqi town of Hilla, about 100km south of Baghdad.
It is understood the blast occurred at a used car market in the Nader neighbourhood.
Hilla has been repeatedly targeted by Sunni Arab insurgents.
In the northern Baghdad district of Husaniya, another car bomb killed five people.
Earlier, the Iraqi interior ministry was targeted in a rocket attack, killing two employees and wounding four.
A car had been fitted with improvised launchers and set to go off with a timer near the ministry, but the car exploded after the first rocket was launched.
And in southern Baghdad, a police patrol was hit by a roadside bomb, leaving one officer dead.
Dozens of people have died in attacks in Iraq in recent days including two British journalists yesterday.
Cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan were working for the US news network, CBS.
They were travelling with a US military patrol when their convoy was struck by 'an improvised explosive device'.
CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier, 39, was also seriously wounded in the attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Pressure for two Iraqi appointments
Pressure is mounting on the new Iraqi government to fill two of its key cabinet posts as violence continues across the country.
A key part of the coalition strategy for Iraq is the eventual handover of security duties to Iraqi security forces, something Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has predicted could take place as soon as the end of 2007.
The process is being hindered by the lack of a defence minister, who is expected to be a Sunni, but the appointment has to be acceptable to the diverse political and sectarian groups in the government.
