KUALA LUMPUR — Less than two weeks to the snap general elections, the ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) is playing the religion card to woo voters in Muslim-majority Malaysia.

A bomb blast in southern Baghdad has killed at least three Shi’ite pilgrims, one day after a suicide bomber killed 40 pilgrims south of the Iraqi capital.

Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf announced on Monday that despite some security problems Iranian companies will soon start implementing infrastructure projects in Iraqi capital, Baghdad.