2010年3月14日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


A week after Iraqi elections, vote count far from complete (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 02:34 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Partial election results released Sunday for all of Iraq's 18 provinces showed Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's coalition ahead of formidable rivals, both secular and religious, in a tight race that's complicated by a glacial vote-counting process and allegations of fraud.

Iraqi PM holds slim lead in partial election tally (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 02:28 PM PDT

An electoral worker carries a ballot box at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 14, 2010. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqi people want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki edged ahead Sunday in a tight race in the country's parliamentary elections after partial results from all of Iraq's 18 provinces showed his bloc leading in seven — two more than his chief rival.


Iraq PM extends lead in vote count (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 12:45 PM PDT

Iraqis walk past a poster of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on March 12. Maliki was on track to claim several key Iraqi provinces on Sunday, bolstering his chances of keeping his job after an election crucial to ending years of bloody unrest.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was on track to claim several key Iraqi provinces on Sunday, bolstering his chances of keeping his job after an election crucial to ending years of bloody unrest.


A week on, Maliki pulls ahead in Iraq race (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 12:32 PM PDT

Election workers count votes for the March 7 parliamentary elections in Baghdad's Russafa district. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was on track to claim several key Iraqi provinces on Sunday, bolstering his chances of keeping his job after an election crucial to ending years of bloody unrest.(AFP/Sabah Arar)Reuters - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pulled ahead on Sunday in early results of an election Iraqis hoped would end years of sectarian strife, but a divided vote suggested long and fraught talks to form a government are ahead.


'Iraq PM leads poll count' in province of Basra (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 06:35 AM PDT

Iraqis walk past a poster of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on March 12. Maliki was on track to claim several key Iraqi provinces on Sunday, bolstering his chances of keeping his job after an election crucial to ending years of bloody unrest.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's bloc has a comfortable lead in the predominantly Shiite southern province of Basra, Iraq's third-biggest constituency, early results showed on Sunday.


Iraq PM leads in early results from oil hub Basra (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 06:14 AM PDT

Iraqi's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki casts his vote inside a polling station at the green zone in Baghdad March 7, 2010. REUTERS/Iraqi GovernmentReuters - A list led by Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a wide lead in early results from the southern oil hub of Basra a week after Iraq's parliamentary election, the country's electoral commission said on Sunday.


US soldier killed in attack on Iraq base: military (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 06:05 AM PDT

A US soldier on patrol in Diyala province in 2008. An American soldier was killed and two wounded in a rocket or mortar attack on a US military base in central Iraq, a statement said.(AFP/File/David Furst)AFP - An American soldier was killed and two wounded in a rocket or mortar attack on a US military base in central Iraq, a statement said on Sunday.


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