Bombs kill 40 before ending of curfew

Islamic State claims responsibility for one suicide attack, saying Shiites are targeted

Baghdad's decade-old nightly curfew ended after midnight on Sunday, hours after bombs exploded in and around the Iraqi capital, killing at least 40 people in a stark warning of the dangers that still lie ahead in this country under attack by the Islamic State group.

The deadliest of Saturday's bombings happened in the capital's New Baghdad neighborhood, where a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a street filled with hardware stores and a restaurant, killing 22 people, police said.