Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Former world court chief joins UK Iraq inquiry (AP)
• Iraq vets at treatment plant asked to get exam (AP)
• Iraq cuts foreign deals for major boost to oil output (AFP)
• Iraqi police: 8 killed in blast north of Baghdad (AP)
• Iraq rights ministry says 85,000 killed in 2004-08 (Reuters)
• Iraqi MPs approve Britain naval training deal (AFP)
• Ten killed in Iraq bombings (AFP)
• Water shortages causes 100,000 to flee homes in Iraq: UN (AFP)
• UNESCO: drought forces 100,000 Iraqis from homes (AP)
• Suicide bomber kills six Iraq's Diyala province (Reuters)
• Exxon, Lukoil submit competing bids for Iraq oilfield (AFP)
• ENI-led group agrees deal for Iraq's Zubair oilfield (AFP)
• UAE convicts U.S. man for "terror" funding: reports (Reuters)

Former world court chief joins UK Iraq inquiry (AP) Posted: 13 Oct 2009 05:11 PM PDT AP - Britain's official inquiry into the war in Iraq has appointed a former president of the International Court of Justice to help advise it on legal issues.

Iraq vets at treatment plant asked to get exam (AP) Posted: 13 Oct 2009 03:23 PM PDT AP - Six years after nearly 1,200 U.S. soldiers in Iraq were potentially exposed to a sometimes deadly chemical linked to cancer, the military and Veterans Affairs Department have been tracking them down and asking them to get a medical exam.

Iraq cuts foreign deals for major boost to oil output (AFP) Posted: 13 Oct 2009 12:21 PM PDT AFP - Foreign energy firms have agreed to Iraq's conditions for investment in two major oilfields in the south of the country, Baghdad announced on Tuesday as it prepares to dramatically ramp up oil output.

Iraqi police: 8 killed in blast north of Baghdad (AP) Posted: 13 Oct 2009 12:07 PM PDT AP - A suicide bomber killed the leader of a U.S.-backed Sunni paramilitary group and seven others north of Baghdad Tuesday, the third attack in as many days in a heavily populated Sunni area, a police official said.

Iraq rights ministry says 85,000 killed in 2004-08 (Reuters) Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:14 AM PDT Reuters - Iraq's human rights ministry said on Tuesday that at least 85,000 people had been killed by bombs, murders and fighting in 2004-08, in a rare death toll release by an Iraqi government agency.

Iraqi MPs approve Britain naval training deal (AFP) Posted: 13 Oct 2009 09:27 AM PDT AFP - Iraqi MPs finally approved a naval training agreement between Baghdad and London on Tuesday, officials said, months after about 100 British sailors had to leave Iraq because no deal was in place.

Ten killed in Iraq bombings (AFP) Posted: 13 Oct 2009 09:17 AM PDT AFP - A spate of bombings across Iraq on Tuesday killed 10 people, including two Iraqi soldiers and the leader of a Sunni Arab militia allied with the United States.

Water shortages causes 100,000 to flee homes in Iraq: UN (AFP) Posted: 13 Oct 2009 09:06 AM PDT AFP - More than 100,000 people in northern Iraq have abandoned their homes since 2005 because of water stress, after drought and over-extraction of groundwater caused the collapse of an ancient water system, UNESCO said on Tuesday.

UNESCO: drought forces 100,000 Iraqis from homes (AP) Posted: 13 Oct 2009 08:39 AM PDT AP - Not war but drought has forced more than 100,000 people in northern Iraq to abandon their homes since 2005, with 36,000 more on the verge of leaving, UNESCO said Tuesday.

Suicide bomber kills six Iraq's Diyala province (Reuters) Posted: 13 Oct 2009 08:20 AM PDT Reuters - A suicide bomber detonated a vest packed with explosives at a cafe south of Baquba in Iraq's Diyala province Tuesday, killing six people and wounding 10, police said.

Exxon, Lukoil submit competing bids for Iraq oilfield (AFP) Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:40 AM PDT AFP - Competing consortiums led by US energy giant Exxon Mobil and Russia's Lukoil have submitted bids that meet conditions for a major southern Iraqi oilfield, the country's oil minister said on on Tuesday.

ENI-led group agrees deal for Iraq's Zubair oilfield (AFP) Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:22 AM PDT AFP - A consortium led by Italian energy giant ENI has agreed to terms with the Iraqi government to exploit the Zubair oilfield in southern Iraq, Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said on Tuesday.

UAE convicts U.S. man for "terror" funding: reports (Reuters) Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:15 AM PDT Reuters - A U.S. citizen of Lebanese origin has been sentenced by a United Arab Emirates court to 18 months in prison on terrorist charges relating to Israel and Iraq, newspapers reported on Tuesday. Naji Hamdan was found guilty of funding and supporting terrorism and having links with Iraqi militant group Ansar al-Sunna because he entered an Islamist website and donated money to an Islamic charity, Gulf News said.

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