2010年3月17日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq needs US help to beat huge refugee crisis: study (AFP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 04:30 PM PDT

Internally displaced Iraqi children sit by the edge of a tent in the shade at a settlement camp in Najaf, in 2008. Iraq faces a dire humanitarian crisis as huge numbers of displaced Iraqis struggle to survive in squalid camps and Washington has a AFP - Iraq faces a dire humanitarian crisis as huge numbers of displaced Iraqis struggle to survive in squalid camps and Washington has a "special responsibility" to help the war-torn country, a report said Wednesday.


Iraqi PM fights for survival as votes are counted (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Iraqi policemen stand guard in front of an election campaign poster for former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. A secular coalition led by former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi challenging the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in the country's historic parliamentary elections narrowly pulls ahead for the first time in the overall vote count. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - The man who has led Iraq for the past four years is battling for his political survival just as U.S. troops are getting ready to pack up and go home.


Even with voter support, Maliki not assured of 2nd term (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 03:26 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Nearly half a million people voted for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki in Baghdad, making him by far the leading candidate in the province where the most seats are at stake, according to partial results from this month's election.

Iraq's Election Results: A Tight Race That Portends More Trouble (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 02:25 PM PDT

Time.com - While Maliki and Allawi are neck and neck, neither will have enough votes to govern - or even, perhaps, to claim the right to form a coalition

Iraq PM and main rival locked in tight election battle (AFP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 12:54 PM PDT

An Iraqi employee of the electoral counting and sorting center registers votes on March 16, in Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his main rival Iyad Allawi were locked in a tight election battle Wednesday, with updated results showing their blocs neck-and-neck in the race for parliament.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and main rival Iyad Allawi were locked in a tight election battle on Wednesday, with updated results showing their blocs neck-and-neck in the race for seats in Iraq's parliament.


Iraq's PM leads again in tight election race (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 12:40 PM PDT

An official registers the serial numbers on locks used for parliamentary election ballot boxes at a counting centre in Baghdad March 15, 2010. REUTERS/SAAD SHALASHReuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki reclaimed the lead on Wednesday over secularist challenger Iyad Allawi in results from a March 7 parliamentary election that has been dogged by fraud allegations.


Iraq watchdog charges 356 with corruption (AFP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 08:53 AM PDT

US dollars and Iraqi dinars sit on a vendors table at at the al-Khadara Market in downtown Basra in 2003. Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog has charged 356 people with stealing a total $40 million in public funds, it has said.(AFP/File/Tim Clary)AFP - Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog has charged 356 people with stealing a total 40 million dollars in public funds, it said on Wednesday.


Christian gunned down in Iraq's Mosul (AFP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 02:45 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman stands guard outside a church in the Baghdad district of Dora in 2008. A Christian shopkeeper has been gunned down in the main northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where eight members of the minority were killed in 10 days last month, a police officer has said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A Christian shopkeeper was gunned down on Wednesday in the main northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where eight members of the minority were killed in 10 days last month, a police officer said.


Iraq PM ally claims fraud, demands poll recount (AFP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 01:22 AM PDT

An Iraqi employee of the electoral counting and sorting center registers votes on March 16, in Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his main rival Iyad Allawi were locked in a tight election battle Wednesday, with updated results showing their blocs neck-and-neck in the race for parliament.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - An ally of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday alleged widespread fraud in Iraq's parliamentary elections and demanded a nationwide recount.


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