BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug 28, SPA -- A suicide car bomber killed 14 people and wounded 43 outside the Interior Ministry in downtown Baghdad Monday, police said, a day after an upsurge of violence left more than 50 people dead across the country. In one of the deadliest weekends for the U.S. military inrecent months, the U.S. military said seven U.S. soldiersdied between Saturday and Sunday night. The renewed violence undercut Prime Minister Nourial-Maliki's claim that government forces were prevailingover insurgents and sectarian extremists. Despite the deaths, British Defense Minister Des Browne, visiting Baghdad on Monday, said the situation was improving. «Each time I come, I see more progress,» Browne saidafter meeting with Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul-QaderMohammed Jassim al-Mifarji. Some 10,000 Iraqis have been killed in the last fourmonths alone in unrelenting attacks by Sunni and Shiiteextremists on each other's communities, as well as bombings and shootings by Sunni Arab insurgents, according to a report of the Associated Press.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/385455