Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraqi schools, once renowned, still reeling from war (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Ex-diplomat: UK exaggerated Iraq WMD claims (AP)
• Iraq stumbles into month 5 with no new government (AP)
• Saudi urges Iraq parties to form government (AFP)
• Parliament gives Iraq leaders two more weeks to form govt (AFP)

Iraqi schools, once renowned, still reeling from war (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 11:46 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Security has improved across Iraq, and along with it attention to an education system battered by decades of deprivation, and, since US forces took over in 2003, attacks by Islamist militants intent on disrupting daily life.

Ex-diplomat: UK exaggerated Iraq WMD claims (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 11:38 AM PDT AP - The U.K. government intentionally exaggerated its assessment of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, a former diplomat told Britain's inquiry into the Iraq war on Monday.

Iraq stumbles into month 5 with no new government (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 10:26 AM PDT AP - Hopes that Iraq's parliament could convene this week fell apart Monday as the country stumbled into month five with no new government and the prime minister hitting a brick wall with his nominal Shiite allies, some of whom deeply oppose him staying in his post.

Saudi urges Iraq parties to form government (AFP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 07:57 AM PDT AFP - Saudi Arabia on Monday called on Iraq's political parties to move quickly to form a new government to enhance the country's stability and security.

Parliament gives Iraq leaders two more weeks to form govt (AFP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 05:16 AM PDT AFP - Iraqi politicians on Monday extended an inaugural parliamentary session by two weeks to give rival blocs more time to form a government, more than four months after an inconclusive poll.

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