LONDON - Britain will close its full consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra as part of government austerity measures, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday.The Foreign Office will keep an office in Basra, which was under British command following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but there ...

A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman killed at least 20 people in an attack that targeted Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims passing through a checkpoint in Iraq's southern city of Basra Saturday, police said.The attack at the end of Arbain, one of the main religious observances on the Shi'ite calendar, ...