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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq seeks improvement in boxing (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 11:01 AM PST

Iraqi boxer Ahmed Badr (L) reacts against his opponent Mulema Joseph (R) of Cameroon during the final of the Benazir Bhutto International boxing event in Karachi on January 8. Iraq won two silver medals and one bronze in the event, a result country's chief Ghazi Abdul Samad termed as satisfactory.(AFP/File/Rizwan Tabassum)AFP - Iraq has the potential to do well in international boxing once the country stabilises, said the country's boxing chief on Saturday, after his team won three medals in a tournament in Pakistan.

GIs return to their war zone and find it peaceful (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 09:18 AM PST

AP - Popcorn popping, thought Army Staff Sgt. Jason Fisher. That's the sound the bullets made as they hit the wall of the American outpost.

Iraq confiscates arms in private security crackdown (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 07:26 AM PST

Reuters - Security forces confiscated hundreds of rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition and other military gear in a crackdown on private security contractors in Iraq, officials said on Saturday.

Fate of 15 Iraqi political parties in balance (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 06:48 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2005 file photo, an Iraqi woman and her child are seen through a defaced election campaign poster for the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue with pictures of its leader Sunni Arab politician Saleh al-Mutlaq in Baghdad, Iraq. An Iraqi parliamentary committee has moved to bar a prominent Sunni politician from running in the upcoming elections due to his alleged connections with the previous regime, a decision likely to stoke already tense sectarian tensions in the country. The executive director of the Accountability and Justice Committee, Ali Faysal Allami, said the committee Thursday disqualified Salah al-Mutlak's party from running in the March 7 vote because he had allegedly promoted former leader Saddam Hussein's ruling Baathist Party. The party is banned in Iraq.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Iraq's electoral commission will decide within days whether to ban 15 political parties from running in March polls because their leaders allegedly have links to former dictator Saddam Hussein, a spokesman said Saturday.

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