2010年11月7日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraqi Kids Struggle on Dangerous Edges in Syria (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 03:01 PM PST

OneWorld.net - DAMASCUS, Nov 7 (IPS) - Leila, 17, presses her hijab-clad head against the front door and strains to hear outside. "There's nothing," she says cautiously, turning towards her mother Rawda, the head of the household, in their quiet basement apartment. Along the brocade couch sit her two sisters, Mona, 19, Nadja, 15, and 10-year-old brother Khaled.*

Iraqi politicians to meet on government impasse (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 12:45 PM PST

Iraqi Christians place portraits of slain priests, 27-years-old Father Wasim Sabih (L) and Taher Saadallah Boutros, known as Father Athir, 32, at the Sayidat al-Nejat Catholic Cathedral, or Syrian Catholic Church, in central Baghdad during Sunday mass, a week after 46 fellow worshippers taken hostage in the church by Al-Qaeda gunmen were massacred during prayers.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - The leaders of Iraq's main political blocs plan to meet face-to-face for the first time since March elections, amid signs they are close to breaking the eight-month political deadlock that has stalled the formation of a new government.


Iraqi Christians worship again in massacre cathedral (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 12:23 PM PST

Iraqi Christians place portraits of slain priests, 27-years-old Father Wasim Sabih (L) and Taher Saadallah Boutros, known as Father Athir, 32, at the Sayidat al-Nejat Catholic Cathedral, or Syrian Catholic Church, in central Baghdad during Sunday mass, a week after 46 fellow worshippers taken hostage in the church by Al-Qaeda gunmen were massacred during prayers.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraqi Christians on Sunday reaffirmed their faith in the face of Al-Qaeda, as 200 people celebrated mass in a bloodstained Baghdad cathedral where militants massacred 46 worshippers a week ago.


Iraqi Christians hold Mass in assaulted church (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 10:11 AM PST

Followers attend a mass at Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Nov. 7, 2010. Iraqi Christians have gathered for Mass in the same church that just a week ago was the scene of a horrific bloodbath that left scores dead and wounded. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The walls were still splattered with blood and pieces of flesh as Iraqi Christians celebrated Mass on Sunday in the church that just a week before had been the scene of a horrific bloodbath in which dozens died.


Iraq rivals 'agree to share power' eight months after poll (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 07:53 AM PST

Iraq's political rivals reached a breakthrough power-sharing deal in which Nuri al-Maliki, seen here in June 2010, a Shiite, retains the premiership, a spokesman said Sunday, exactly eight months after inconclusive elections.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraq's political rivals reached a breakthrough power-sharing deal in which Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite, retains the premiership, a spokesman said on Sunday, exactly eight months after inconclusive elections.


Bomb kills two anti-Qaeda militiamen in north Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 03:05 AM PST

Iraqi policemen guard a mobile checkpoint in central Baghdad. A roadside bomb killed two Sunni anti-Qaeda militiamen and two Iraqi soldiers died in separate attacks on checkpoints north of the capital(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A roadside bomb killed two Sunni anti-Qaeda militiamen and two Iraqi soldiers died in separate attacks on checkpoints north of the capital on Sunday, police said.


Turkey urges Iraq roundtable meet to form govt (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 02:16 AM PST

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (left) speaks with Iraqi Kurdish regional president Massud Barzani during a meeting in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil. Davutoglu called for a meeting of all Iraqi political groups on forming a government, as he visited the Kurdish north exactly eight months since Iraq's inconclusive election.(AFP/Safin Hamed)AFP - Turkey's foreign minister called Sunday for a meeting of all Iraqi political groups on forming a government, as he visited the Kurdish north exactly eight months since Iraq's inconclusive election.


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