IRAQ-UNREST

Iraqi policemen and firefighters gather following a suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, some 300 kms from Baghdad on July 28, 2008. At least 22 people were killed today in a suicide bombing during a protest rally in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk and gunfire in the panic that followed, officials said. A suicide bomber detonated his explosives belt amid a group of people in downtown Kirkuk who were protesting against a controversial provincial election law, prompting guards to fire to disperse a surging crowd, officials told AFP. AFP PHOTO/MARWAN IBRAHIM