Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• In last NYC stop, Dalai Lama discusses kinship (AP)
• Top Shiite cleric in Iraq calls for unity (AP)
• Man sentenced to death in Iraq for Russian killings (Reuters)
• Fresh appeals lodged in Iraqi election impasse (Reuters)
• Death for qaeda man in Iraq for killing Russians (AFP)
• Obama to West Point grads: Success in Iraq, progress in Afghanistan (The Christian Science Monitor)

In last NYC stop, Dalai Lama discusses kinship (AP) Posted: 23 May 2010 04:47 PM PDT AP - The Dalai Lama said Sunday that the U.S.-led war in Iraq could perhaps have been avoided through negotiations with Saddam Hussein.

Top Shiite cleric in Iraq calls for unity (AP) Posted: 23 May 2010 01:38 PM PDT AP - The leader of the Sunni-backed coalition that won the most seats in Iraq's March election said the country's most influential Shiite cleric assured him in a meeting Sunday that no group would be excluded from the new government.

Man sentenced to death in Iraq for Russian killings (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2010 11:50 AM PDT Reuters - An Iraqi court has sentenced to death a man accused of the kidnapping and killing of five Russian embassy civil servants, the Iraqi cabinet said in a statement on Sunday.

Fresh appeals lodged in Iraqi election impasse (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2010 10:05 AM PDT Reuters - Election officials in Iraq said Sunday they had received new appeals stemming from March's parliamentary election but did not expect more than a brief delay in ratification of the results.

Death for qaeda man in Iraq for killing Russians (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2010 07:45 AM PDT AFP - An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced an Al-Qaeda militant to death for the kidnapping and murder of five Russian diplomats in June 2006, a judicial official said.

Obama to West Point grads: Success in Iraq, progress in Afghanistan (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 May 2010 10:41 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama told graduating cadets at the West Point military academy’s commencement ceremony Saturday morning that America’s strength abroad begins at home â€" and that the future military leaders’ service in the name of America’s security abroad must be matched by a revitalized US economy.

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