2010年5月22日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


13-year-old US pianist plays with Iraq orchestra (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2010 01:26 PM PDT

American Llewellyn Kingman Sanchez Werner, left, 13-year-old pianist from Los Angeles, California, is performing with the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 22, 2010. A piano prodigy from Los Angeles brought an Iraqi audience to their feet Saturday when he made a rare guest appearance with the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra in Baghdad, a city struggling to revive its once-vibrant cultural scene. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - BAGHDAD — A 13-year-old piano prodigy from Los Angeles brought an Iraqi audience to their feet Saturday when he made a rare guest appearance with the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra in Baghdad, a city struggling to revive its once-vibrant cultural scene.


Death toll in car bomb near Baghdad rises to 30 (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2010 09:46 AM PDT

Mourners carry the coffin of Farouq Mohammed, 20, during his funeral in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Iraq, Saturday, May 22, 2010. Mohammed was killed when a car bomb exploded Friday at an open air market crowded with shoppers in a Shiite town northeast of Baghdad, killing 30 people and wounding more than 80, police said. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - Iraqi police and morgue officials say the death toll in a car bombing at an open-air market in a Shiite town northeast of Baghdad has risen to 30.


Candidates to lead UK's Labour renounce Iraq war (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2010 08:42 AM PDT

AP - Two of the front-runners to head Britain's Labour Party sought to move on from divisive recent history Saturday by renouncing the Iraq war entered by their former leader, Tony Blair.

Two US soldiers die in north Iraq: army (AFP)

Posted: 22 May 2010 07:40 AM PDT

Two US soldiers died in northern Iraq in recent days, the US military said in brief statements.(AFP/File/Alexander Nemenov)AFP - Two US soldiers died in northern Iraq in recent days, the US military said in brief statements on Saturday.


2 US soldiers die in incidents in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2010 05:58 AM PDT

A Palestinian youth uses a sling-shot to throw stones at Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank village of Iraq Burin, near Nablus May22, 2010. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST RELIGION)AP - The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in separate incidents in northern Iraq.


Iraq security forces blamed after car bomb kills 30 (AFP)

Posted: 22 May 2010 01:27 AM PDT

Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in central Baghdad. Iraq's security forces were sharply criticised after a car bomb in a market in central Iraq killed 30 people a day earlier, the worst attack in the country since May 10.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Iraqi security forces were sharply criticised on Saturday a day after a car bomb in a market in central Iraq killed 30 people, in the worst attack to hit the country since May 10.


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