Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Rights report criticizes Kurds over minorities (AP)
• VA pays to settle lawsuit over Mich. vet's death (AP)
• Now that parliament approved elections, Iraqis are ambivalent (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Iraq touts for tourists at London fair (AFP)
• Iraqi PM: no election alliance with Shiite rivals (AP)
• Iraqi oil row 'unlikely to end before polls' (AFP)
• Iraq PM says 73 arrests in Oct 25 attacks probe (AFP)
• Iraq PM slams 'negative' Saudi stance (AFP)
• Iraq's minorities victim of northern conflict: HRW (AFP)
• Militants kill, Kurds intimidate Iraqi minorities:HRW (Reuters)

Rights report criticizes Kurds over minorities (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 02:26 PM PST AP - The ongoing dispute between Iraq's central government in Baghdad and the Kurdish authorities in the country's north threatens to create a "human rights catastrophe" for minority communities in the region, a leading rights watchdog warned in a report Tuesday.

VA pays to settle lawsuit over Mich. vet's death (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 02:22 PM PST AP - The federal government has agreed to pay $218,500 to settle a lawsuit over the fatal drug overdose of a young Michigan veteran who served as a U.S. Marine in Iraq.

Now that parliament approved elections, Iraqis are ambivalent (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 01:44 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Obama administration officials breathed a collective sigh of relief Sunday when Iraq's parliament, after weeks of delays, approved a law to hold national elections in January, very likely permitting a major post-election withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq.

Iraq touts for tourists at London fair (AFP) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 09:26 AM PST AFP - Babylon, Sinbad, the Garden of Eden -- war-scarred Iraq touted its attractions for tourists Tuesday, as it sent a delegation to a major industry fair for the first time in a decade.

Iraqi PM: no election alliance with Shiite rivals (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 07:20 AM PST AP - Iraq's prime minister on Tuesday denied reports he will form an alliance with the nation's leading Shiite parties ahead of national polls in January.

Iraqi oil row 'unlikely to end before polls' (AFP) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 05:56 AM PST AFP - An oil dispute between Iraqi Kurdistan and the central government in Baghdad is unlikely to be resolved by the elections on January 21, 2010, the autonomous region's leader said Tuesday.

Iraq PM says 73 arrests in Oct 25 attacks probe (AFP) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 05:23 AM PST AFP - Iraq has arrested 73 people suspected of playing a direct role in two massive bombs that killed more than 150 people in Baghdad on October 25, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Tuesday.

Iraq PM slams 'negative' Saudi stance (AFP) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 03:06 AM PST AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has severely criticised Saudi Arabia for its negative stance towards Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime.

Iraq's minorities victim of northern conflict: HRW (AFP) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 01:34 AM PST AFP - Minorities, including Christians, in northern Iraq are the collateral victims of a conflict between Arabs and Kurds over who controls the country's disputed provinces, Human Rights Watch warned Tuesday.

Militants kill, Kurds intimidate Iraqi minorities:HRW (Reuters) Posted: 10 Nov 2009 12:59 AM PST Reuters - Iraq's Kurdish-Arab tensions in the disputed Nineveh province may create a human rights catastrophe for minority groups that have faced rising attacks since the 2003 U.S. invasion, a rights group said on Tuesday.

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