2009年11月7日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Sunni concerns see Iraq MPs fail to agree 2010 election law (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 12:24 PM PST

Sunni Muslim politician Saleh al-Mutlak, one of the leaders of the new coalition the Iraqi National Movement, speaks to the press following a parliamentray session in Baghdad. Concerns from Iraq's Sunni bloc on Saturday saw MPs fail again to agree a law for next year's general election, fuelling doubts that the vote willgo ahead on January 16 as planned.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Concerns from Iraq's Sunni bloc on Saturday saw MPs fail again to agree a law for next year's general election, fuelling doubts that the vote will go ahead on January 16 as planned.


Egypt's first envoy to Iraq since 2005 arrives (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 12:48 AM PST

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Ghiet (R) shakes hands with his Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari in Cairo after signing a diplomatic agreement. Egypt's new ambassador to Iraq has arrived in Baghdad, a diplomatic source said on Saturday of Cairo's first diplomatic representative in the country since its charge d'affaires was killed in 2005.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)AFP - Egypt's new ambassador to Iraq has arrived in Baghdad, a diplomatic source said on Saturday of Cairo's first diplomatic representative in the country since its charge d'affaires was killed in 2005.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,359 (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 05:42 PM PST

AP - As of Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, at least 4,359 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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