BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Mortar rounds targeted a Sunni Muslim mosque in Iraq and a bomb exploded inside a Shi'ite mosque on Friday in attacks that killed at least eight people a day before local elections.
Saturday's ballot will be a test of Iraq's political stability with the government mired in crisis over power-sharing among Shi'ite, Sunni and ethnic Kurds more than a year after the last U.S. troops left.
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