2009年3月15日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US troops hold St Patrick's Day parade in Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 03:41 PM PDT

A US soldier wearing giant green glasses for Saint Patrick's Day poses for a picture during celebrations of the Irish patron saint at the fortified Green Zone area in Baghdad. The Tigris river did not run green and there wasn't a pint of the black stuff for hundreds of miles as American forces in Iraq staged their first Saint Patrick's Day parade on Sunday.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AFP - The Tigris river did not run green and there wasn't a pint of the black stuff for hundreds of miles as American forces in Iraq staged their first Saint Patrick's Day parade on Sunday.

Iraq's al-Maliki: US will stay in insecure areas (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 01:46 PM PDT

Nice shades : A US soldier wearing giant green glasses for Saint Patrick's Day poses for a picture during celebrations of the Irish patron saint at the fortified Green Zone area in Baghdad. (AFP/Ali Yussef)AP - U.S. troops will not be removed from areas of Iraq that are not completely secure or where there is a high probability that attacks could resume after the Americans leave, Iraq's prime minister said Sunday.

Cheney: Obama detainee policies make US less safe (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 10:56 AM PDT

Former Vice President Dick Cheney appears on CNN's 'State of the Union' Sunday, March 15, 2009, in Washington. Cheney's going high-tech with a BlackBerry and a wireless device for reading books. And he's driving a car these days. Such is life after 8 years as vice president. Two months after leaving office, Cheney also is getting used to being out of the loop when it comes national secrets. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that Americans are less safe now that President Barack Obama has overturned Bush terrorism-fighting policies and that nearly all the Republican administration's goals in Iraq have been achieved.

Bureaucracy, clashing rules hinder Iraq investment (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 09:45 AM PDT

Reuters - Investment in Iraq remains hindered by conflicting regulations and a labyrinthine bureaucracy, officials said on Sunday, as the country awaits a wave of foreign cash needed to help it rebuild.

In the Waterfront: The U.S. Prison for Iraq's Worst Prisoners Prepares to Close (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 09:20 AM PDT

Time.com - Camp Bucca's "Waterfront" houses the worst "bad guys" but, unless legal cases can be built against them and the rest of Bucca's detainees, all have to go free

OPEC holds off from oil output cut (AFP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 12:22 PM PDT

Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ministers meet in Vienna. The OPEC oil cartel on Sunday froze its output at current levels and urged its 12 member nations to comply with last year's deep cuts as a savage global downturn dents energy demand.(AFP/Samuel Kubani)AFP - The OPEC oil cartel opted not to cut output at a meeting here Sunday, delaying the decision at least until May, to give rich and emerging nations time to respond to the global economic crisis.

Kurdish rebels say 4 fighters killed in raids (AFP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 07:01 AM PDT

Kurdish men protest in Islamabad in 2008 against raids on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party. Four combatants from the PKK died in three days of Turkish air raids in northern Iraq last week, a PKK official said on Sunday.(AFP/File/Bulent Kilic)AFP - Four combatants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) died in three days of Turkish air raids in northern Iraq last week, a PKK official said on Sunday.

Cheney: US achieved much of what it wanted in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 06:51 AM PDT

Former Vice President Dick Cheney appears on CNN's 'State of the Union' Sunday, March 15, 2009, in Washington with moderator John King. Cheney's going high-tech with a BlackBerry and a wireless device for reading books. And he's driving a car these days. Such is life after 8 years as vice president. Two months after leaving office, Cheney also is getting used to being out of the loop when it comes national secrets. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - No, he won't use the phrase "Mission Accomplished" when it comes to Iraq.

Kuwait expat workforce in first fall since 1990 (AFP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 04:15 AM PDT

Foreign workers are seen at a construction site in Kuwait City in April 2008. The expatriate workforce of the oil-rich emirate of Kuwait decreased last year for the first time since the Iraqi invasion of 1990, official figures showed on Sunday.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat)AFP - The expatriate workforce of the oil-rich emirate of Kuwait decreased last year for the first time since the Iraqi invasion of 1990, official figures showed on Sunday.

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