2010年1月20日星期三

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq list of excluded candidates has more Shi'ites (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 10:08 AM PST

Reuters - More Shi'ite candidates than Sunnis have been barred from Iraq's election because of links to Saddam Hussein's Baath party, politicians said on Wednesday, potentially defusing a row that threatened to reopen sectarian wounds.

Three killed, dozens wounded in Iraq violence (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 08:03 AM PST

Three people were killed and dozens were wounded in an attempted robbery and ensuing gun battle in Baghdad and suicide car bombing in the northern city of Mosul.(AFP/Graphic/File)AFP - Three people were killed and dozens were wounded on Wednesday in an attempted robbery and ensuing gun battle in Baghdad and suicide car bombing in the northern city of Mosul, security officials said.


Obama urged to free Iraq's Aziz (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 04:33 AM PST

A lawyer for Iraq's jailed ex-deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz, seen here in 2006, hospitalised after suffering a stroke, urged US President Barack Obama to free the 73-year-old on humanitarian grounds.(AFP/Pool/File/Marco Di Lauro)AFP - A lawyer for Iraq's jailed ex-deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz, hospitalised after suffering a stroke, on Wednesday urged US President Barack Obama to free the 73-year-old on humanitarian grounds.


Suicide car bomb wounds 30 in northern Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 02:22 AM PST

Three people were killed and dozens were wounded in an attempted robbery and ensuing gun battle in Baghdad and suicide car bombing in the northern city of Mosul.(AFP/Graphic/File)AFP - A suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army base in the northern city of Mosul on Wednesday, wounding at least 30 people, including 20 members of the security forces, a military official said.


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