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(Reuters) A car bomb killed 25 people on Thursday at a busy intersection in Baghdad where minibuses pick up and drop off passengers, while 20 beheaded bodies were found on a river bank south of the capital, Iraqi police said.

Another car bomb in Baghdad killed five people, police said. Mortar bombs also killed four people in two separate neighborhoods in the city.

In Basra, a roadside bomb killed three British soldiers and seriously wounded another in the early hours of Thursday, the British military said.

The latest attacks underscore the strength of militants in Iraq despite the arrival of 28,000 additional U.S. troops. The unrelenting violence is pushing Iraq to the brink of all-out civil war between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

(NYTimes) Violence appeared to be increasing in northern Iraq, one of the areas to which extremist insurgents are believed to have fled when American soldiers began an offensive against them in Diyala Province 10 days ago.