Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,408 (AP)
• Public fury over power outages poses test for Iraq (AP)
• US lifts restrictions on refugees in Michigan (AP)
• At least 9 Iraqis killed in bombings (AP)
• Iraq PM urges end to political meddling by regional powers (AFP)
• PM warns Iraqis of two more years of power misery (AFP)
• New killings in campaign against Iraqi ex-insurgents (Reuters)
• Three dead in Iraq unrest (AFP)
• First day of summer in Iraq signals hot, violent months ahead (The Christian Science Monitor)

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,408 (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2010 02:41 PM PDT AP - As of Tuesday, June 22, 2010, at least 4,408 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Public fury over power outages poses test for Iraq (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2010 02:15 PM PDT AP - Iraqis' tempers are rising with their thermometers over their government's failure to provide reliable electricity. And their thermometers have topped 120 degrees.

US lifts restrictions on refugees in Michigan (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2010 01:15 PM PDT AP - The U.S. State Department has decided to relax a two-year-old policy that limited refugee resettlement to the Detroit area because of Michigan's struggling economy.

At least 9 Iraqis killed in bombings (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT AP - Bombs killed at least nine Iraqis on Tuesday, including two leaders of government-backed Sunni militias that have fought al-Qaida in Iraq, officials said.

Iraq PM urges end to political meddling by regional powers (AFP) Posted: 22 Jun 2010 10:00 AM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on regional powers on Tuesday to stop meddling in Iraqi coalition talks, blaming them for the absence of a new government nearly four months after elections.

PM warns Iraqis of two more years of power misery (AFP) Posted: 22 Jun 2010 08:21 AM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned Iraqis on Tuesday that two more years of electricity shortages lay ahead as there is no quick fix to the problem despite bloody demonstrations since the weekend.

New killings in campaign against Iraqi ex-insurgents (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:11 AM PDT Reuters - Two senior members of a government-backed Iraqi militia of former Sunni insurgents were killed on Tuesday, the latest blow in what appears to be a concerted campaign to undermine Iraq's fragile security gains.

Three dead in Iraq unrest (AFP) Posted: 22 Jun 2010 01:25 AM PDT AFP - Bombers killed two bodyguards of a top Iraqi civil servant and an anti-Qaeda militia commander in separate attacks on Tuesday, security officials said.

First day of summer in Iraq signals hot, violent months ahead (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 21 Jun 2010 09:06 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The morning after a double suicide bombing of Iraq’s Trade Bank, employees working around collapsed ceilings and bent beams to pack up computer equipment and files say they are a day away from reopening the institution central to Iraq’s reconstruction efforts.

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