2009年7月10日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Ex-civilian contractor charged with sexual assault (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:34 PM PDT

AP - A former civilian defense contractor was charged Friday with sexually assaulting a woman at an Iraqi air base.

Ex KBR Iraq worker held on sexual assault charge (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:13 PM PDT

A KBR (Kellogg, Brown and Root) sign adorns the Halliburton corporate headquarters near downtown Houston, December 12, 2003. REUTERS/Tim Johnson REUTERSReuters - A former employee of military contractor KBR Inc has been arrested in Texas and charged with sexually assaulting a woman at an airbase in Iraq, federal prosecutors said on Friday.

British PM's Afghanistan warning as death toll surpasses Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 03:03 PM PDT

British soldiers in Helmand province in August 2008. Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Friday of a AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Friday of a "very hard summer" in Afghanistan after eight soldiers were killed within 24 hours, taking the British military death toll higher than in Iraq.

Iraq wins first home match since 2003 invasion (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 12:59 PM PDT

Palestine player Amar Abu Salil (L) fights for the ball against Iraqi player Hawar Mulla Muhammad during their friendly match in the northern city of Arbil, 305 kms from the capital Baghdad. Iraq won the first international football match in the country since the US-led invasion in 2003, beating the Palestinian national football team 3-0 in a friendly on Friday.(AFP/Safin Hamed)AFP - Iraq won the first international football match in the country since the US-led invasion in 2003, beating the Palestinian national football team 3-0 in a friendly on Friday.

Iraq denies U.S. policy shift brought Iranians' release (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 11:55 AM PDT

Reuters - Five Iranians jailed by the U.S. military in Iraq were freed this week not as the result of a U.S. policy shift on Iran but because their turn came up in a queue of prisoners awaiting release, an official said on Friday.

Dispute over flag protest erupts in Wisc. village (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 11:44 AM PDT

This photo provided by Susan Willems taken July 5, 2009 shows an American flag being flown upside down, a day after it was removed by local police, in Wausau, Wis. The flag being flown upside down as a protest in a small northern Wisconsin village was seized by police before a Fourth of July parade. The businessman flying the flag claims police trespassed and stole his property. (AP Photo/Susan Willems)AP - An American flag flown upside down as a protest in a northern Wisconsin village was seized by police before a Fourth of July parade and the businessman who flew it — an Iraq war veteran — claims the officers trespassed and stole his property.

Mother of soldier killed in Iraq gets legal review (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 10:32 AM PDT

AP - The mother of a British soldier killed in Iraq four years ago while traveling in a light Land Rover won the right on Friday to have a legal review of the use of the controversial vehicle.

Report: VA putting patients at risk of overdose (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 08:47 AM PDT

AP - Two years after an Iraq war veteran overdosed on medication at a Veterans Affairs facility, the problems blamed in his death have not been corrected at many of the VA's residential treatment sites, a government study found.

Worst violence since US pullback hits Iraq (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 08:46 PM PDT

Residents sit near the site of a bomb attack in Sadr City in Baghdad, July 9, 2009. Seven people were killed and 20 were wounded in a twin bomb attack at a market in Sadr City, a poor, Shi'ite Muslim area of the Iraqi capital. REUTERS/Sattar al-Rubaie (IRAQ CONFLICT)AP - Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five Iranian officials suspected of aiding Shiite insurgents.

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