Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US wants Sadr City base open after deadline (AP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,308 (AP)
• Iraq's Kurds, Arabs face choice: settle or fight (Reuters)
• Legal experts: Toss soldier's murder conviction (AP)
• Iraqi PM seeks to defuse tensions with Kuwait (AFP)
• Bomb in Baghdad cafe kills 9, wounds 31 (Reuters)
• Iraq-Kuwait spat over war payments threatens ties (Reuters)
• Iraq and Britain agree draft naval deal (AFP)
• INSIDE WASHINGTON: British companies in fraud case (AP)

US wants Sadr City base open after deadline (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2009 06:50 PM PDT AP - The U.S. and Iraqi militaries have tentatively agreed to keep a joint base on the edge of Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City, maintaining an American presence in a strategic area even after the June 30 deadline for U.S. combat troops to pull out of the capital.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,308 (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2009 05:41 PM PDT AP - As of Wednesday, June 3, 2009, at least 4,308 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq's Kurds, Arabs face choice: settle or fight (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2009 05:06 PM PDT Reuters - In a lively market town hotly disputed between Iraqi Kurds and Baghdad's Arab-led government, Khalil Ibrahim points at the ground under his feet to illustrate what he thinks the dispute is about: oil.

Legal experts: Toss soldier's murder conviction (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2009 04:03 PM PDT AP - Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson and four former U.S. attorneys are among those pressing military officials to throw out an Army officer's murder conviction in the death of an Iraqi detainee.

Iraqi PM seeks to defuse tensions with Kuwait (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2009 12:52 PM PDT AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sought on Wednesday to defuse tensions with neighbouring Kuwait, stressing that the problems between the two nations can be resolved through dialogue.

Bomb in Baghdad cafe kills 9, wounds 31 (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2009 12:13 PM PDT Reuters - A bomb planted in a cafe in a mostly Shi'ite district of southwest Baghdad killed nine people and wounded 31 others Wednesday, police said.

Iraq-Kuwait spat over war payments threatens ties (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2009 11:42 AM PDT Reuters - Iraqi and Kuwaiti lawmakers traded accusations on Wednesday over U.N.-imposed reparations Iraq must make to its smaller neighbor, which it invaded in 1990 under former leader Saddam Hussein.

Iraq and Britain agree draft naval deal (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2009 06:10 AM PDT AFP - Iraq has signed a draft agreement with Britain for British naval personnel to remain in the country beyond their agreed withdrawal date, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said on Wednesday.

INSIDE WASHINGTON: British companies in fraud case (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2009 03:51 AM PDT AP - Federal investigators are targeting a pair of British companies in a procurement fraud case that extends a long-running probe of corruption in Iraq to the shores of America's staunchest ally.

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