Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraqi doctors use acupuncture during drug shortage (Reuters)
• US-Iraq relations threatened by Iraq's political quarrels (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Iraq's Political Disarray Likely to Remain After U.S. Departure (Time.com)
• Iraq election winner Allawi says new polls may be needed (AFP)
• Former PM urges interim government in Iraq (AP)
• Five killed in suicide attacks on Iraq checkpoints (Reuters)
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• Slain Qaeda militant 'arrived in Iraq under Saddam' (AFP)
• Rights group: Torture routine in secret Iraq jail (AP)
• Sunni-backed vote winner seeks caretaker government (Reuters)
• Iraqi detainees were 'tortured in secret prison' (AFP)
• Torture, rape was norm at illegal Iraq prison: report (Reuters)
• US soldier killed in northern Iraq (AP)
• NY human rights group says Iraq torture routine (AP)

Iraqi doctors use acupuncture during drug shortage (Reuters) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 04:05 PM PDT Reuters - Iraqi doctors faced with a shortage of anesthetic drugs in a capital city hit by years of conflict have successfully used acupuncture to treat mothers during caesarean section births.

US-Iraq relations threatened by Iraq's political quarrels (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:17 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The Obama administration is showing growing nervousness as Iraq’s postelection process of forming a new government turns out to be even more troubled and drawn-out than anticipated. After weeks of backstage prodding, US officials are now openly questioning the impact on US-Iraq relations â€" and in particular on plans to pull out all US combat forces this summer.

Iraq's Political Disarray Likely to Remain After U.S. Departure (Time.com) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 02:40 PM PDT Time.com - The post-election political deadlock is showing no signs of being broken, meaning Iraq is unlikely to have a new government by August, when U.S. combat troops are set to leave

Iraq election winner Allawi says new polls may be needed (AFP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 02:38 PM PDT AFP - Iraq's general election winner Iyad Allawi on Wednesday said new parliamentary polls run by international monitors might be needed to end concerted efforts from rivals who want to reverse his victory.

Former PM urges interim government in Iraq (AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 10:07 AM PDT AP - The front-runner in Iraq's recent parliamentary elections on Wednesday called for the formation of an internationally supervised caretaker government to prevent the country from sliding into violence, even as a double suicide blast killed seven in south Baghdad.

Five killed in suicide attacks on Iraq checkpoints (Reuters) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 09:37 AM PDT Reuters - Five people were killed and 10 wounded, including several police officers, when two suspected suicide car bombers attacked police checkpoints in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.

(AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 09:11 AM PDT AP - Double suicide bombing in Shiite area of Baghdad kills 7.

Slain Qaeda militant 'arrived in Iraq under Saddam' (AFP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 08:53 AM PDT AFP - The Egyptian commander of Al-Qaeda forces in Iraq who was killed in a US-backed raid this month arrived in Baghdad under Saddam Hussein's rule, a press report on Wednesday quoted his widow as saying.

Rights group: Torture routine in secret Iraq jail (AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 07:41 AM PDT AP - Iraqi men held for months at a secret prison outside Baghdad were systematically tortured and forced to sign confession statements that in at least some cases they were forbidden to read, according to a new report by a human rights group released Wednesday.

Sunni-backed vote winner seeks caretaker government (Reuters) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:13 AM PDT Reuters - A Sunni-backed bloc that came out ahead in Iraq's election but whose slim lead is threatened by efforts to disqualify candidates called Wednesday for the creation of an internationally monitored caretaker government.

Iraqi detainees were 'tortured in secret prison' (AFP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:12 AM PDT AFP - Iraqi men were raped, electrocuted and beaten in a "secret prison" in Baghdad, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, in a harrowing report reminiscent of the abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib.

Torture, rape was norm at illegal Iraq prison: report (Reuters) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 02:00 AM PDT Reuters - Torture, beating and sodomizing inmates with brooms or pistol barrels were the norm at an illegal prison run by a military unit under the command of the Iraqi prime minister's office, Human Rights Watch said.

US soldier killed in northern Iraq (AP) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 01:34 AM PDT AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed by a roadside blast in the Diyala province in northern Iraq.

NY human rights group says Iraq torture routine (AP) Posted: 27 Apr 2010 10:14 PM PDT AP - A New York-based human rights group says the torture of Iraqi detainees at a makeshift Baghdad prison housing mostly Sunnis was routine and systematic.

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