2010年12月25日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Pope urges courage for Catholics in China, Iraq (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:55 PM PST

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful during the 'Urbi et Orbi' (to the City and to the World) message in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI in his Christmas Day message Saturday urged Catholics loyal to him in China to courageously face limits on religious freedom and conscience. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)AP - Iraqi Christians celebrated a somber Christmas in a Baghdad cathedral stained with dried blood, while Pope Benedict XVI exhorted Chinese Catholics to stay loyal despite restrictions on them in a holiday address laced with worry for the world's Christian minorities.


For many troops, a last Christmas in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 09:36 AM PST

Reuters - Colonel Lance Kittleson is looking forward to spending Christmas with his family next year as troops withdraw from Iraq 7-1/2 years after the invasion that toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein.

Iraqi Christians Celebrate in Exile (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:19 AM PST

The Daily Beast - After a string of terror attacks and threats—including October’s devastating al Qaeda rampage in Baghdad—Christians in Iraq have fled to the north, or nearby countries. Christmas morning, Nathan Deuel talked to refugees cautiously observing the holy day.

Oil exports from Iraq's Kurdish north to resume (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:05 AM PST

Iraqi oil minister Abdul-Karim Elaibi talks to reporters after attending an Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, OAPEC meeting in Cairo, Egypt Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Iraq's newly appointed oil minister said on Saturday that oil exports from the country's northern self-ruled Kurdish region would soon resume as part of the country's national oil export policy. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - Iraq's newly appointed oil minister said on Saturday that oil exports from the country's northern self-ruled Kurdish region would soon resume as part of the country's national oil export policy.


Iraqi Christians mark somber Christmas in Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 07:47 AM PST

A Christian woman grieves during Mass at a church in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Iraqi Christians are marking a somber Christmas in the face of repeated violence by militants intent on driving their beleaguered community from Iraq. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraqi Christians celebrated Christmas Mass on Saturday in a Baghdad church that was the scene of a brutal al-Qaida assault, facing stark symbols of the price of faith: photos of dead parishioners in front of the altar and, hanging from the wall, black cassocks representing two slain priests.


Iraqis defy threats to pack massacre church on Xmas (AFP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 07:15 AM PST

A shrine with photographs of those killed in an attack is seen as Iraqi Christians take part in the Christmas day service at the Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad. Hundreds of Christians packed Our Lady of Salvation for Christmas church mass, defying threats of attacks less than two months after militants massacred worshippers and priests there.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - Hundreds of Christians packed Baghdad's Our Lady of Salvation church for Christmas on Saturday, defying threats of attacks less than two months after militants massacred worshippers and priests there.


Iraq to activate Kurd foreign oil deals: minister (AFP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 06:55 AM PST

Iraq's new oil minister Abdulkarim al-Luaybi said that he will recognise contracts the government of its Kurdish north has signed with foreign oil companies.(AFP/File/Essam -al-Sudani)AFP - Iraq will recognise contracts which the government of its Kurdish north has signed with foreign oil companies, the country's new oil minister, Abdulkarim al-Luaybi, said on Saturday.


Iraqi Christians mark safer Christmas in Kurdistan (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 05:33 AM PST

Reuters - Ammar Ablahad fled Baghdad to the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan just last week, determined to celebrate Christmas with his wife and baby without fear of attack.

Iraqi 'hangs daughter' over Qaeda suicide plot (AFP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:40 AM PST

Iraqi policemen man a checkpoint in Baghdad, September 2010. An Iraqi man hanged his 19-year-old daughter after discovering she had joined Al-Qaeda and was preparing to launch a suicide bombing(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - An Iraqi man hanged his 19-year-old daughter after discovering she had joined Al-Qaeda and was preparing to launch a suicide bombing, police said on Saturday.


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