2010年6月21日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

U.S. says cannot force Iraqis to agree government (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:20 PM PDT

Reuters - Iraqi politicians must agree among themselves on forming a new government and the United States cannot tell them what to do, the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad said on Monday.

Turkey sends troops to Iraq border after PKK raid (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:04 PM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (C) speaks with Turkish soldiers in a trench during his visit to the Turkish city of Hakkari at the border with Iraq June 20, 2010. REUTERS/Kayhan Ozer/AnatolianReuters - Turkish commandos backed by helicopters deployed along the Iraqi border on Monday after Kurdish guerrillas killed 11 soldiers at the weekend in one of the deadliest attacks for years in their separatist war.

Iraqi electricity minister resigns over shortages (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 01:21 PM PDT

A protester holds a flyer depicting Iraq's Electricity Minister Karim Waheed, top left, and Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, bottom left, during a demonstration against electricity shortages in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 21, 2010. Riot police in southern Iraq used water cannons to disperse protesters pelting them with stones Monday during a demonstration against power cuts as anger spread over the lack of basic utilities to fend off the country's searing summer heat. In Arabic, the flyer reads, 'Karim Waheed and Zarqawi are two sides of the same coin.' (AP Photo)AP - Iraq's electricity minister resigned Monday in the face of angry protests over the lack of power despite years of promises that the situation would improve.

Iraq electricity minister offers to quit after bloody demos (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 12:27 PM PDT

Iraqi Electricity Minister Karim Wahid, pictured in May 2010, offered to resign on Monday after a wave of bloody street protests demanding his dismissal over harsh power rationing in the scorching summer heat.(AFP/File/Karim Jaafar)AFP - Iraqi Electricity Minister Karim Wahid offered to resign on Monday after a wave of bloody street protests demanding his dismissal over harsh power rationing in the scorching summer heat.

Turkish troops hunt down Kurdish rebels (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 12:11 PM PDT

Three-year-old Shakhawan Mohammed lies in a hospital in Irbil, a city in the Kurdish controlled north 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 20, 2010. The child was injured and his sister killed in what local officials say were Turkish air raids in Iraq's Kurdish north — the first reported civilian death from shelling that began last week. (AP Photo)AP - Elite commando units rappelled down from helicopters, and mechanized infantry units blocked escape routes of Kurdish rebels in a major operation along the Iraqi border on Monday. Turkey's military chief did not rule out a cross-border offensive against rebel hideouts in northern Iraq.

Iraq minister resigns after clashes over electricity (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 12:05 PM PDT

Reuters - Iraq's electricity minister resigned Monday after days of protests over crippling power cuts that have stoked tensions following a March election which has yet to produce a new government.

UN refugee chief calls for non-sectarian Iraq government (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 11:58 AM PDT

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres (C) is shown a stand displaying artisan accessories hand crafted by refugee women as he visits the Amel Community centre in Beirut's southern suburb. The head of the UN refugee agency on Monday called for Iraq to form a new government on a non-sectarian basis to encourage the return of Iraqis who have fled the war-torn country.(AFP/Joseph Eid)AFP - The head of the UN refugee agency on Monday called for Iraq to form a new government on a non-sectarian basis to encourage the return of Iraqis who have fled the war-torn country.

Iraq electricity minister resigns over power cuts (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 11:08 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq's electricity minister resigned on Monday after protests over power cuts that afflict the country and have stoked tensions following a March election that has yet to produce a new government.

(AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:54 AM PDT

AP - Iraqi electricity minister resigns after deadly protest over power outages in searing heat.

Witness: Writing on the walls in the Holy Land (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 05:49 AM PDT

A nun walks in Jerusalem's Old City near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre March 31, 2010. REUTERS/Ammar AwadReuters - Alastair Macdonald has been Reuters Bureau Chief in Israel and the Palestinian territories for the past three years. As a foreign correspondent over the past 20, he has previously been based in London, Paris, Moscow, Berlin and Baghdad.

Iraqi FM says political 'bickering' risks street riots (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 05:43 AM PDT

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (seen here in 2009) has warned that prolonged AFP - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned on Monday that prolonged "bickering" over who should be the war-torn country's prime minister is angering the public and risks stoking deadly street riots.

Fury over Iraq power rationing spreads in harsh heat (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 04:58 AM PDT

Two young Iraqi women hold up signs during a protest against power cuts in Baghdad on June 19. Hundreds of angry protesters hurled stones at provincial council offices in southern Iraq, wounding 17 police amid growing rage over power rationing in the summer heat, a police official said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Hundreds of angry protesters hurled stones at provincial council offices in southern Iraq on Monday, wounding 17 police amid growing rage over power rationing in the summer heat, a police official said.

U.S. pullout from Iraq triggers epic garage sale (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 11:39 PM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, US soldiers haul a refrigerator as they prepare to leave their base in Samarra, Iraq, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. The base hand over comes as the US military works with Iraq to develop a security plan for a revered Shiite shrine that they hope will increase the city's economic viability. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)Reuters - The detritus of occupation comes in all shapes and sizes.

Iraq's Allawi fears plots to assasinate him (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 07:55 PM PDT

Former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi, seen in April 2010, said in an interview Monday he had been warned of plots to assassinate him.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)AFP - Former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi, who is locked in a struggle to form a new government after inconclusive polls, said in an interview Monday he had been warned of plots to assassinate him.

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