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At least 37 people have been killed by a suicide bombing at a cafe in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, say officials.

At least another 42 people were injured in the attack in the mainly Shia Amil district of the city.

Iraq has experienced a surge in violence in recent months, with more than 6,000 people killed in acts of violence this year.

Militants frequently target cafes, markets, mosques and other places where people gather in large numbers.

It was not immediately clear which group had carried out the latest attack.

Police said a car laden with explosives had been driven in to the busy cafe.

The Associated Press said the cafe and a juice shop nearby were particularly popular with young people.

Earlier on Sunday, five suicide bombers attacked government buildings in western Anbar province killing two policemen and three officials. Police told the BBC they suspected Sunni Muslim insurgents of being behind the attack.

In another incident, police said a suicide bomber killed six people in the city of Samarra, north of Baghdad.

The bomber targeted the house of a senior policeman who was believed to have survived the attack. Those killed were said to be members of his family.

Correspondents say the failure of the Shia-led government to address the grievances of Iraq's Sunni Arab minority is behind the recent increase in violence.

Many Sunnis complain of being excluded from government jobs and senior posts and of abuses by security forces.

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Australia bushfires:

New South Wales declares state of emergency

A state of emergency has been declared in New South Wales as Australian firefighters battle bushfires that have already destroyed more than 200 homes.

The announcement comes as conditions look set to deteriorate with

soaring temperatures and strong winds expected to fan the flames in the coming days.

The Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, has been the worst-hit region with some fires still raging out of control.

State officials say they are the most dangerous conditions in 40 years. New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell said the declaration would give emergency services additional powers over the next 30 days. These could include cutting gas and power supplies if needed and ordering mandatory evacuations.

In the middle of the bush around the community of Winmalee in the Blue Mountains, firefighters are again working through the night.

The air crackles with fire. We have just driven a few hundred yards past one of the main fire fronts.

The night sky glows orange, lit up by the flames that lick through the gum trees. Hundreds of homes have already been destroyed in this area. One of the fire crew who brought us out here told us these have been the worst fires he has seen in 30 years of service. And most here think things will get worse before they get better. The forecast hot weather, strong winds and little prospect of rain will make their jobs increasingly difficult in the coming days. And all this in springtime - summer has not even arrived yet. 

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\"We're planning for the worst but hoping for the best,\" he said.

One man has died - possibly of a heart attack - while trying to protect his home. Hundreds of people have been left homeless by the bushfires.

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One firefighter, 24-year-old Tim Boxwell, said he had lost his own home in Winmalee, on the eastern edge of the Blue Mountains, to the fire while he was on duty.

\"I'd been standing watching other people's houses burn and the emotion from that was bad enough. To be hit with your own house being lost was a shock as well,\" he told BBC's Newshour.

'Unparalleled risk'

Officials have warned that the three main bushfires - two in the Blue Mountains and one near the town of Lithgow - could become one huge fire in the coming days, possibly threatening Sydney.

A fire service spokesman said: \"We can understand the magnitude of that as it would then creep into the bottom end of Sydney. It's certainly something that we're very concerned about.\"

The foot of the Blue Mountains lies just across the Nepean River from the suburbs of Sydney. Some embers jumped its banks last Thursday, starting a fire at Castlereagh near Penrith.

After several cooler days, forecasters are predicting the return of

unseasonably hot weather - with temperatures reaching 30C (86F) and higher.

The heat wave would probably peak on Wednesday, warned Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons, but there would be little relief in the intervening period.

\"We've got what would be unparalleled in terms of risk and exposure to the Blue Mountains throughout this week. If you are to draw a parallel, and it's always dangerous to draw a parallel, at best you'd be going back to time periods in the late 60s.

\"The reality is, however, these conditions that we're looking at are a whole new ball game and in a league of their own,\" the commissioner said.

Mr O'Farrell said crews had carried out controlled burn operations overnight to strengthen buffer zones around the major fires.

An emergency warning was issued for the Blue Mountains village of Bell on Sunday morning.

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Residents were urged to evacuate or to take shelter \"in a solid structure when the fire front arrives\".

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