2010年5月1日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraqi FM: US, Britain must push to resolve impasse (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2010 08:35 AM PDT

Iraqi people inspect the scene of a car bomb attack Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 1, 2010. Gunmen have robbed a jewelry store in northern Baghdad and killed its owner. As they were making their escape, a car bomb exploded nearby, killing three policemen who were responding to the robbery, police said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Iraq's foreign minister chided the U.S. and Britain for not taking an active role in resolving his country's bitter election dispute, and accused Washington of being more concerned with sending home U.S. soldiers.


Iraqi police face trial for lynching suicide bomber (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2010 08:13 AM PDT

Iraqi police manage a checkpoint in Baghdad, 2008. Iraqi police who appeared to lynch a failed suicide bomber in a beating broadcast by a satellite television station are to face human rights charges.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Iraqi police who appeared to lynch a failed suicide bomber in a beating broadcast by a satellite television station are to face human rights charges, the government said on Saturday.


Three Iraqi police die in blast after jewellery heist (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2010 06:57 AM PDT

Iraqi policemen man a checkpoint in central Baghdad, 2009. A hold-up at a Baghdad jewellery store left three Iraqi policemen dead and two others wounded when the getaway car used by the robbers exploded(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A hold-up at a Baghdad jewellery store on Saturday left three Iraqi policemen dead and two others wounded when the getaway car used by the robbers exploded, an interior ministry official said.


Syria: US weapons charges like false Iraq claims (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2010 05:56 AM PDT

Syrian soldiers walk in front of a restaurant where a picture depicting from left, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is attached, in Damascus, Syria, Friday, April 30, 2010. In a speech on Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Syrian transfers of increasingly sophisticated weaponry, including rockets, to militants in southern Lebanon and Gaza could spark new conflict in the Middle East. Additionally, she said a nuclear-armed Iran would profoundly destabilize the region. Israel has accused Syria of providing Hezbollah with Scud missiles, which would dramatically increase the group's ability to strike targets in Israel. Syria has denied the charges. (AP Photo/Ola Rifai)AP - Syria's foreign minister has compared U.S. accusations that Damascus is sending weapons to Hezbollah to Washington's pre-war claims against Iraq.


Iraq civilian death toll rises sharply in April (Reuters)

Posted: 01 May 2010 12:10 AM PDT

Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in al-Shurta al-Rabaa area, southwestern Baghdad, April 30, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenReuters - The number of civilians killed by violence in Iraq rose sharply in April from the month before, a sign that insurgents may be trying to exploit political tensions after an election that produced no outright winner.


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