2009年1月12日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Bombs kill at least seven in Baghdad (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jan 2009 03:04 AM CST

An Iraqi police officer looks at a colleague lying on the ground after he was wounded during a bomb attack in central Baghdad January 12, 2009. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - Bombers staged a series of attacks across Baghdad Monday, mainly targeting Iraqi security forces, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 30, police said.

Bombs aimed at security forces kill 9 in Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2009 02:28 AM CST

An Iraqi police officer looks at a colleague lying on the ground after he was wounded during a bomb attack in central Baghdad January 12, 2009. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)AP - A series of bombs targeting Iraqi security forces ripped through busy areas in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least nine people, police said.

Five killed, 14 injured in Baghdad rush hour blasts (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2009 01:35 AM CST

Iraqi military officers march during their graduation ceremony at the Iraqi Military Academy in Baghdad. A spate of Monday morning rush hour bomb blasts in Baghdad killed at least five people and injured 14, an interior ministry official said.(AFP/Pool/File/Erik de Castro)AFP - A spate of Monday morning rush hour bomb blasts in Baghdad killed at least five people and injured 14, an interior ministry official said.

How Iraq Fills the Quota for Female Politicians (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 10:20 PM CST

Time.com - For women candidates in Iraq's largest and most traditional province, baby steps towards political involvement

Vatican diplomat Cardinal Pio Laghi dead at 86 (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 06:37 PM CST

This March 5, 2003 file photo shows retired Cardinal Pio Laghi, Pope John Paul II's envoy, during a news conference in Washington following a meeting with President Bush. Cardinal Pio Laghi, a longtime Vatican diplomat who went to Washington in 2003 to personally try to dissuade President George Bush from launching the Iraq war, has died, the Vatican said Sunday Jan. 11, 2009. He was 86. Laghi died Saturday evening in Rome, said Vatican spokesman the Rev. Ciro Benedettini. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - Cardinal Pio Laghi, a longtime Vatican diplomat who went to Washington to try to dissuade U.S. President George W. Bush from launching the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has died. He was 86.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,224 (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 06:20 PM CST

An Iraqi police officer looks at a colleague lying on the ground after he was wounded during a bomb attack in central Baghdad January 12, 2009. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)AP - As of Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009, at least 4,224 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

U.S. finds Iraq tactics don't work in Afghan war (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 04:04 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - DELARAM, Afghanistan — On a sunset patrol here in late December, U.S. Marines spotted a Taliban unit trying to steal Afghan police vehicles at a checkpoint. In a flash, the Marines turned to pursue, driving off the main road and toward the gunfire coming from the mountain a half mile away.

Iraq backs down from election code requirement (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 02:22 PM CST

AP - Iraq has lifted a requirement that journalists must sign a binding code of conduct to cover key events in the upcoming provincial elections after a flood of complaints, an official said Sunday.

Egypt returns stolen artifact to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 10:49 AM CST

Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass, center, displays a bronze statue said to represent an ancient Iraqi goddess, before handing it over to the Iraqi Charge d'Affaires in Cairo, at the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Hawass said the stolen bronze statue had been looted from Iraq and was found on an Egyptian man trying to smuggle it into Egypt via the port of Nuweiba, and was being returned to the Iraqi government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Egypt's antiquities chief unveiled Sunday a bronze statue of what he described as an ancient Mesopotamian goddess that had been looted from Iraq.

Iraq's Sunni MPs fail to nominate new speaker (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 07:12 AM CST

Iraqi MP Iyad al-Samarrai, speaks to the press outside the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad's fortified 'Green Zone', November 2008. MPs from the largest Sunni bloc were preparing to put forward Samarrai, a senior leader of the Sunni Iraqi Islamic party, as the parliamentary speaker in Iraq but other Sunni parties opposed their choice.(AFP/Pool/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraq's Sunni Arab politicians were in disarray after Iraq's deputy parliament speakers announced on Sunday they had failed to agree a candidate to propose for the post of parliamentary speaker.

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