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Thu 03 Mar 2007Shia pilgrims pour into Kerbala amid more killingsIRAQ:More than a million Shia Muslim pilgrims poured into Iraq's holy city of Kerbala yesterday, defying insurgents who killed about 190 people in two days of attacks blamed by the government on Sunni militants.A suicide bomber killed at least 26 people in a cafe north of Baghdad in religiously mixed Diyala province, which has seen frequent sectarian violence between Shias and Sunnis.