Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraq's Allawi opens coalition talks to all (AFP)
• Maliki's forces detain, investigate winning Sunni candidates (McClatchy Newspapers)
• US says missing contractor in Iraq returns (AP)
• Death toll in Iraq bombing rises to 59 (Reuters)
• Iraq twin bomb attack death toll tops 50 (AFP)
• Last defendant in Iraq killings ready for trial (AP)
• Iraq's Allawi says open to all in coalition talks (Reuters)
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• Iraq's top vote-getter cuts across sectarian lines (AP)
• Oversight sought for battlefield 'bags of cash' in Iraq, Afghanistan (The Christian Science Monitor)

Iraq's Allawi opens coalition talks to all (AFP) Posted: 27 Mar 2010 03:46 PM PDT AFP - Ex-premier Iyad Allawi, whose bloc emerged strongest from Iraq's polls, launched talks Saturday with political foes in a bid to form a coalition, offering to work with any group "without exception."

Maliki's forces detain, investigate winning Sunni candidates (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 27 Mar 2010 02:54 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD, Iraq_At least four Sunni Muslim candidates who appear to have won parliamentary seats on the winning ticket of secular leader Ayad Allawi have become targets of investigation by security forces reporting to the narrowly defeated Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, according to interviews Saturday with relatives, Iraqi security forces and the U.S. military.

US says missing contractor in Iraq returns (AP) Posted: 27 Mar 2010 01:45 PM PDT AP - The U.S. says an Iraqi-American contractor believed to have been kidnapped in Baghdad in January is back in American hands.

Death toll in Iraq bombing rises to 59 (Reuters) Posted: 27 Mar 2010 08:15 AM PDT Reuters - The death toll from two bombs that struck a crowded market in Iraq's mainly Sunni Diyala province rose to 59, police said on Saturday, as politicians started coalition talks to form a new government.

Iraq twin bomb attack death toll tops 50 (AFP) Posted: 27 Mar 2010 08:14 AM PDT AFP - The casualty toll of the twin bombings in Khales, northeast of the Iraqi capital, has risen to 52 dead and 73 wounded, a security official said on Saturday.

Last defendant in Iraq killings ready for trial (AP) Posted: 27 Mar 2010 04:07 AM PDT AP - Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich entered military court thinking charges against him in a case involving the deaths of 24 Iraqis — some children — would be dismissed. He left resigned to being court-martialed in the biggest criminal case against U.S. troops to arise from the Iraq war.

Iraq's Allawi says open to all in coalition talks (Reuters) Posted: 27 Mar 2010 04:00 AM PDT Reuters - Iraq election winner Iyad Allawi said on Saturday he was open to alliances with any faction and wanted quickly to form a government that would build strong relationships with its regional neighbors.

(AP) Posted: 27 Mar 2010 08:01 AM PDT AP - UAE news agency: head of world's largest sovereign wealth fund missing after glider crash.

Iraq's top vote-getter cuts across sectarian lines (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2010 05:59 PM PDT AP - He has fought off a machete-wielding assassin believed sent by Saddam Hussein, spent much of his life in exile and was rumored to have personally shot a number of insurgents. Ayad Allawi is a survivor, and he showed it more than ever in Iraq's parliamentary elections.

Oversight sought for battlefield 'bags of cash' in Iraq, Afghanistan (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 Mar 2010 02:07 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Senate appropriators are worried there isn’t enough oversight of the millions of dollars military commanders spend in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now the Pentagon is taking a closer look.

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