2010年2月9日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,375 (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 12:58 PM PST

AP - As of Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, at least 4,375 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq to open 10-15 posts in Jordan as part of worldwide vote (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 09:53 AM PST

Expatriate Iraqis look at a candidates list at a polling station in Amman in 2005. At least 10 polling stations are to open in Jordan for Iraqi expatriates to take part in their country's March 7 election, as part of worldwide out-of-country voting, Iraq's ambassador said on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Khalil Mazraawi)AFP - At least 10 polling stations are to open in Jordan for Iraqi expatriates to take part in their country's March 7 election, as part of worldwide out-of-country voting, Iraq's ambassador said on Tuesday.


Iraq launches fourth state oil firm (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 08:42 AM PST

A man walks close to a flare at the North Rumaila oil field, in southern Iraq. Iraq's oil ministry has announced the launch of a fourth state company responsible for overseeing development in recently auctioned fields in the centre of the country.(AFP/File/Essam -al-Sudani)AFP - Iraq's oil ministry on Tuesday announced the launch of a fourth state company responsible for overseeing development in recently auctioned fields in the centre of the country.


British PM to face Iraq inquiry in early March (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 07:08 AM PST

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will appear before the public inquiry into the Iraq war in early March.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will appear before the public inquiry into the Iraq war in early March, a spokesman for the probe said on Tuesday.


Most banned Iraqi poll candidates' appeals rejected (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 05:28 AM PST

Reuters - Almost all the candidates who contested their ban from Iraq's upcoming parliamentary election did not submit their cases properly and lost the chance to appeal, an Iraqi legal body said on Tuesday.

Rep. John Murtha: lifelong hawk, military backer, brazen earmarker (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 05:13 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Until his public break with the Bush administration over the war in Iraq on Nov. 17, 2005, Rep. John Murtha (D) of Pennsylvania, who died Monday after surgery, was best known for the billions of dollars he secured for his district behind closed doors.
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