2010年4月11日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq says Saudi backs unity government (AFP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 01:06 PM PDT

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, pictured in March 2010, on a visit to Saudi Arabia on Sunday said King Abdullah expressed his wish for a government comprising all Iraq's politicians after an indecisive March 7 general election.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AFP - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on a visit to Saudi Arabia on Sunday said King Abdullah expressed his wish for a government comprising all Iraq's politicians after an indecisive March 7 general election.


Al-Maliki bloc says 750,000 Iraqi votes in doubt (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 10:35 AM PDT

Iraqi Oil Minister and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political bloc member, Hussain al-Shahristani, displays an elections application, during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 11, 2010. Al-Maliki's bloc says its investigation into the March 7 parliamentary election has thrown some 750,000 votes into question. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political party claimed Sunday its investigation into the March 7 parliamentary election has thrown into question some 750,000 votes, enough to change the results of the nationwide poll.


Defense chief backs troops on Apache attack video (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 08:00 AM PDT

This image captured from a classified U.S. military video footage shows a wounded Iraqi person being loaded onto a van during a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff on July 12, 2007, and released to Reuters on April 5, 2010 by WikiLeaks. REUTERS/WikiLeaks/HandoutReuters - A video showing U.S. Apache helicopters killing 12 people, including two Reuters news staff, is painful to watch but an investigation into the attack was very thorough, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday.


Iraq PM's bloc says fraud may have cost it 750,000 votes (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 06:30 AM PDT

Reuters - The coalition of Iraq's incumbent prime minister, which came second in inconclusive March elections, said Sunday up to 750,000 votes had been tainted by fraud and it was seeking a recount in five provinces.

Saudi denies interfering in Iraq elections (AFP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 03:26 AM PDT

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, seen here in march 2010, denied his country boosted Iraq's former premier Iyad Allawi in last month's election(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)AFP - Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal denied his country boosted Iraq's former premier Iyad Allawi in last month's election, a Saudi-owned newspaper said Sunday.


Bomb kills three Iraqis from US-allied militia (AFP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 01:46 AM PDT

Members of the Sunni Muslim Sahwa or Awakening Councils man a checkpoint in Baghdad, 2008. Three brothers who were members of the US-allied Sahwa AFP - Three brothers who were members of the US-allied Sahwa "Sons of Iraq" militia that helped tame the nation's insurgency were killed when a roadside bomb engulfed their car on Sunday, officials said.


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