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20 killed in Iraq suicide bomb attacks

Two suicide car bombers have killed 20 people and wounded more than 40 in separate attacks near Iraq's city of Ramadi.

The first car bomb went off in a busy market in a town called Albu-Thiyab, east of Ramadi.

The second car bomb targeted a police checkpoint in a town called al-Jazeera.

Sunni Islamist al-Qaeda is engaged in a fierce power struggle with local Sunni Arab tribesmen in Anbar province, who oppose the group's campaign of indiscriminate attacks and its efforts to impose a harsh interpretation of Islam.