2010年11月10日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi PM to stay on as political deadlock ends (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 05:00 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2010 file photo, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks at a parade marking Police Day in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi lawmakers are working furiously to end the country's eight-month political deadlock with reports that a deal may be near to return Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to office. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will return to power for another four-year term after Iraqi lawmakers working late into the night Wednesday agreed on a deal to form a new government, lawmakers said.

(AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:57 PM PST

AP - Official in Sunni-backed coalition: Bloc agrees to deal that keeps al-Maliki as Iraqi PM

Iraq's Christians Vow to Survive -- With Muslim Help (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:45 PM PST

Time.com - After the horrific church invasion on Halloween, Baghdad's Christians suffer another day of assaults. But they have also won the sympathy of their Muslim countrymen

Iraq breaks deadlock, PM wins support for new term (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 02:29 PM PST

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki attends a meeting with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak at the presidential palace in Cairo October 20, 2010. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Iraqi politicians appeared to have broken an eight month political impasse on Wednesday when the Sunni-backed Iraqiya alliance agreed to take part in a new government headed by incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

Iraq power-sharing dispute comes down to the wire (AFP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 01:04 PM PST

Talks aimed at resolving an Iraqi power vacuum resumed in Baghdad on Wednesday after ex-premier Iyad Allawi, pictured in April 2010, who leads the main Sunni bloc that narrowly won March elections, returned to the table.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)AFP - Iraq's leadership ended three days of talks aimed at breaking an eight-month power vacuum without announcing any success, and now face a meeting of parliament on Thursday to elect a speaker, the first step toward forming a government, a parliamentary source said.

Iraq's Christians terrorized by wave of bombings (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:52 PM PST

Iraqi Christian Siba Nadhir, who survived last week's church carnage in Baghdad, lies on her hospital bed surrounded by a nurse and mourning family members in black, in the Iraqi capital on November 7, one day before being transferred along with 40 people wounded in the deadly October 31 Al-Qaeda hostage assault on the Sayedat al-Nejat Catholic catherdral to France for further hospital treatment.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AP - Suspected Sunni militants took aim again at Baghdad's dwindling Christian community, setting off a dozen roadside bombs Wednesday and sending terrified families into hiding behind a church where walls are still stained from blood from an attack nearly two weeks ago.

Baghdad Christians in firing line as deadly bombs sow panic (AFP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 11:30 AM PST

A child walks past destroyed vehicles in a mainly Christian neighborhood of central Baghdad. A string of anti-Christian bombings has cost six more lives in the wake of a Baghdad church bloodbath, sowing panic in Iraq's 2,000-year-old minority on Wednesday, many of whom now want to flee.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A string of anti-Christian bombings has cost six more lives in the wake of a Baghdad church bloodbath, sowing panic in Iraq's 2,000-year-old minority on Wednesday, many of whom now want to flee.

Iraqi Christians flee homes after fresh Baghdad attacks (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 09:41 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - A wave of bombings and mortar attacks struck Christian areas across Baghdad Wednesday, sending families fleeing their homes a day after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pledged the government would protect them.

UN condemns attack on Iraqi Christians (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 09:05 AM PST

Pat Lingner, of North St. Paul, Minn., left, and Kay Mitzner visit the graves of two young servicemen that were killed in Iraq at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Lingner was there for her nephew, U.S. Army Cpl. Conor Masterson, who died April 8, 2007, and Mitzner was there visiting family friend Marine Cpl. Johnathan Lee Benson, who died Sept. 9, 2006. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jerry Holt) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUTAP - The U.N. Security Council said Wednesday that it's appalled by the latest terrorist attacks on Iraqi Christians, calling them a blow against religious diversity and democracy.

Kirkuk: a ticking time bomb in volatile north Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 06:29 AM PST

U.S. soldiers secure an area during a visit by Fletcher Burton (not pictured), the chief of the Kirkuk province reconstruction team (PRT), to a market in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, November 10, 2010. REUTERS/Ako RasheedReuters - Haji Mohammed Ismail, a tribal elder in Kirkuk, home to one of Iraq's biggest oilfields, is bracing for the worst once U.S. troops leave the country and Arab and Kurd face off with no one to halt the fight.

US open to keeping troops in Iraq after 2011: Gates (AFP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 02:57 AM PST

US Marines in the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2005. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday said Washington was open to keeping troops in Iraq beyond a 2011 deadline, but it was up to Baghdad to make a request.(AFP/File/Hrvoje Polan)AFP - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday said Washington was open to keeping troops in Iraq beyond a 2011 deadline, but it was up to Baghdad to make a request.

Blasts target Iraq Christians; 3 dead, dozens hurt (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 01:53 AM PST

Pat Lingner, of North St. Paul, Minn., left, and Kay Mitzner visit the graves of two young servicemen that were killed in Iraq at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Lingner was there for her nephew, U.S. Army Cpl. Conor Masterson, who died April 8, 2007, and Mitzner was there visiting family friend Marine Cpl. Johnathan Lee Benson, who died Sept. 9, 2006. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jerry Holt) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUTReuters - Bombings and mortar attacks targeting Christians killed at least three people and wounded dozens in Baghdad, Iraqi security sources said on Wednesday, 10 days after a bloody siege at a Catholic church that killed 52.

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