Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraq election impasse continues, veto contested (Reuters)
• Woman awarded $3M in assault claim against KBR (AP)
• Gates says Iraq withdrawal on schedule (AP)
• Iraq sentences militia leader to death (AP)
• Prominent Iraqi Sunni fighter sentenced to death (Reuters)
• Iraq MPs to reconsider vote law (AFP)
• Iraq refugees face dwindling UN funds, creating concerns of unrest (The Christian Science Monitor)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,363 (AP)
• Iraq poll in jeopardy as VP vetoes law (AFP)

Iraq election impasse continues, veto contested (Reuters) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 03:00 PM PST Reuters - Iraqi lawmakers failed on Thursday to resolve differences over an election law, dampening hopes of holding a vote on time in January and throwing into doubt a partial U.S. troop withdrawal later next year.

Woman awarded $3M in assault claim against KBR (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 02:16 PM PST AP - A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been awarded nearly $3 million by an arbitrator to settle her case.

Gates says Iraq withdrawal on schedule (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 01:29 PM PST AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says warnings that politics could push back Iraqi elections scheduled for January aren't affecting his plans for a troop withdrawal now.

Iraq sentences militia leader to death (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 12:16 PM PST AP - An Iraqi court on Thursday sentenced the Sunni leader of a government-allied paramilitary group to death for murder and kidnapping in a case that highlighted tensions over the treatment of former insurgents who turned against al-Qaida.

Prominent Iraqi Sunni fighter sentenced to death (Reuters) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 08:52 AM PST Reuters - A U.S.-backed Sunni militia leader whose arrest provoked violence between Sunni fighters and forces of Iraq's Shi'ite-led government has been sentenced to death for murder and kidnapping, a court spokesman said on Thursday.

Iraq MPs to reconsider vote law (AFP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 06:57 AM PST AFP - The Iraqi parliament will on Saturday attempt to finally pass an electoral law jeopardised by Vice President Tarek al-Hashemi's demand that it be changed before a general election can go ahead.

Iraq refugees face dwindling UN funds, creating concerns of unrest (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 01:00 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - More than six years after the invasion of Iraq, up to 2 million refugees remain stranded in neighboring countries and fears are rising that international support for them is fading, threatening more long-term regional unrest.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,363 (AP) Posted: 18 Nov 2009 06:05 PM PST AP - As of Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, at least 4,363 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq poll in jeopardy as VP vetoes law (AFP) Posted: 18 Nov 2009 04:42 AM PST AFP - Iraq's general election planned for January, only the second since the fall of Saddam Hussein, was thrown into jeopardy on Wednesday after Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi vetoed the polling law.

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