GENEVA – Iraqi hospitals remain unable to cope with mass casualties and many Iraqis still die due to ill-equipped centers, despite a drop in violence in some areas, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday.

BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber killed 14 people in an attack on a bus in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, security sources said.

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia – Hundreds of protesters tried to attack the United States consulate in Bosnia’s Serb Republic on Tuesday, smashing shops in the city centre after they were pushed away by riot police.