BAGHDAD — A pair of bombings in the Iraqi capital on Saturday killed nearly two dozen people hours before the city’s longtime curfew was set to come to an end. The deadliest attack happened in the New Baghdad section of the city. Police officials said a suicide bomber targeted a street filled with hardware stores, killing 14 people and wounding at least 38. The second attack took place shortly afterward in central Baghdad’s popular Shorja market. Police said two improvised explosive devices detonated 25 meters apart from one another, killing at least 11 people and wounding 26. The incident comes ahead of PM Haider Al-Abadi’s decision to lift Iraq’s longtime curfew beginning at midnight Sunday. — AFP