2009年11月13日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Accustomed to danger, Iraqi journalists now face legal attacks (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 12:11 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Warid Badr Salim's front-page satire in last Saturday's edition of the newspaper al Mada compared Iraq's parliament to wolves stalking sheep — the Iraqi people — and cheekily suggested that its members need the diplomatic passports they've awarded themselves just to leave Baghdad's fortresslike Green Zone.

Along Baghdad street, a debate over limits of free expression (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 12:10 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Yaser Adnan, who owns a bookstore on Baghdad's Mutanabi Street, got new regulations from Iraq's Ministry of Culture last July. Trucks full of his books now sit at Iraq's borders for two to three weeks while he runs the list of titles by the authorities and gets the multiple approvals he needs to import them.

Iraq's Kurdish parties lose unity ahead of January election (AFP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 10:12 AM PST

An Iraqi Kurdish man sips a fruit juice at a stand plastered with the image of Kurdish president Massud Barzani in the northern city of Arbil, 350 kms from Baghdad, in July 2009. Iraq's Kurdish politicians, locked in dispute with the Baghdad government, will lack unity for the first time when fighting January's general election, due to the rise of a new opposition force.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - Iraq's Kurdish politicians, locked in dispute with the Baghdad government, will lack unity for the first time when fighting January's general election, due to the rise of a new opposition force.

Christian teenager killed in Iraq drive-by shooting (AFP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 10:07 AM PST

Iraqi Muslim women walk past a church in 2008 in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, some 370 kms north of the capital Baghdad. Gunmen killed a Christian teenager in a drive-by shooting outside his family home on Friday in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Gunmen killed a Christian teenager in a drive-by shooting outside his family home on Friday in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said.

EU seals political, trade deal with Iraq: commission (AFP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 10:05 AM PST

The European Union and Iraq have agreed the outlines of a partnership covering counter-terrorism, human rights and trade, the European Commission said Friday. The so-called Partnership and Cooperation Agreement AFP - The European Union and Iraq have agreed the outlines of a partnership covering counter-terrorism, human rights and trade, the European Commission said Friday.

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