(Updates death toll) BAGHDAD, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed his car into a group of day labourers waiting to be hired in the mainly Shi'ite city of Hilla on Sunday, killing 17, police said. Police in the city 100 (60 miles) south of Baghdad said 49 people were wounded in the blast, which came against a backdrop of continuing sectarian bloodshed between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunnis that has killed thousands. The workers were attacked in a yard where they usually gathered to be hired, police said.
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan (R), whose son Casey was killed during combat in Iraq in April 2004, leaves after participating in a candlelight vigil in the village of Daechoori in Pyongtaek, where South Korea's defence ministry had fenced and demolished houses to make way for the expansion of a U.S. base, about 80 km (50 miles) south of Seoul, November 20, 2006. A delegation of U.S. peace and social justice activists led by Sheehan arrived in Seoul on Sunday for a six-day visit to object to the expansion of Camp Humphrey, the U.S. military base in Pyongtaek, and to protest against a plan for a free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the U.S. The sign reads, "Plant seeds of peace in Pyongtaek".
