2009年7月25日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi Kurds end voting; feud with Baghdad looms (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 02:19 PM PDT

President of the Kurdistan region in Iraq Masoud Barzani pauses during his speech at Chatham House in London March 12, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew WinningReuters - Iraqi Kurds voted on Saturday in polls expected to keep President Masoud Barzani in power in Kurdistan and unlikely to allay voters' worries about corruption or end a feud with Baghdad over land and oil.

Iraq to send students to colleges in US, abroad (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:46 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden welcomes Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Friday, July 24, 2009, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, prior to their meeting. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday his country plans to send up to 10,000 Iraqi students per year to colleges in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia over the next five years as a part of a new scholarship program.

Iraqi Kurds flock to polls amid tensions with Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:14 PM PDT

An Iraqi Kurdish man moves a stone during a board game using his ink stained finger following voting earlier in the presidential and parliamentary elections in the northern city of Arbil, 350 kms from Baghdad. Iraq's Kurds flocked to cast votes Saturday in presidential and legislative polls expected to confirm the grip on power of regional leaders locked in dispute with Baghdad over land and oil.(AFP/Safin Hamed)AFP - Iraq's Kurds cast their votes Saturday in presidential and legislative polls expected to confirm the grip on power of regional leaders locked in dispute with Baghdad over land and oil.

Iraqi Kurds hope for change in regional elections (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 12:06 PM PDT

A Kurdish man casts his vote at a polling site in Sulaimaniyah, 260 kilometers (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 25, 2009. About 2.5 million eligible voters in the Kurdish region's three northern provinces - Irbil, Dahuk and Sulaimaniyah - will elect their 111-seat parliament and next president. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)AP - The Kurdish political establishment faced its first real test in an election Saturday for a president and 111-seat parliament in a semiautonomous region mired in a bitter dispute with Baghdad over oil and land that threatens Iraq's stability.

Four killed in Fallujah car bomb (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 08:43 AM PDT

An Iraqi walks past the destroyed building following a car bomb blast outside the offices of a Sunni Muslim Arab party in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah, 50 kms from Baghdad. Four people were killed and 22 wounded in a car-bomb blast outside the offices of a Sunni Arab party in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah, a police officer has said.(AFP/Saddam Hussein)AFP - Four people were killed and 22 wounded in a car bomb blast on Saturday outside the offices of a Sunni Arab party in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah, a police officer said.

Turkey, Iraq and US officials to discuss PKK rebels (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 07:26 AM PDT

A PKK fighter takes position with his rifle during a training session in northern Iraq. Senior officials from Iraq, Turkey and the United States are to meet in Ankara to discuss measures against Kurdish rebels holed up in northern Iraq, a Turkish government source has said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AFP - Senior officials from Iraq, Turkey and the United States are to meet in Ankara next week to discuss measures against Kurdish rebels holed up in northern Iraq, a Turkish government source said Saturday.

Bomb in Iraq's Falluja kills five and wounds 21 (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 06:39 AM PDT

A resident walks at the site of bomb attack in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad July 25, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A car bomb in the western Iraqi city of Falluja killed five people and wounded 21 others on Saturday, an Interior Ministry source said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,329 (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 05:32 PM PDT

AP - As of Friday, July 24, 2009, at least 4,329 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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