2010年6月22日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,408 (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 02:41 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, June 22, 2010, at least 4,408 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Public fury over power outages poses test for Iraq (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 02:15 PM PDT

Umm Ali fans her infant son, Hassan, during a power outage at her family's home in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Protests over electricity shortages in Iraq's sweltering south continued Tuesday, prompting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to promise to make power needs a top government priority, a day after Iraq's electricity minister resigned. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraqis' tempers are rising with their thermometers over their government's failure to provide reliable electricity. And their thermometers have topped 120 degrees.


US lifts restrictions on refugees in Michigan (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 01:15 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. State Department has decided to relax a two-year-old policy that limited refugee resettlement to the Detroit area because of Michigan's struggling economy.

At least 9 Iraqis killed in bombings (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT

Iraqi policemen stand at the site of a roadside bombing in the Dora area of southern Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Iraqi officials say a roadside bomb apparently aimed at a senior transportation official has missed its target and killed bystanders instead. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Bombs killed at least nine Iraqis on Tuesday, including two leaders of government-backed Sunni militias that have fought al-Qaida in Iraq, officials said.


Iraq PM urges end to political meddling by regional powers (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 10:00 AM PDT

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, pictured in May 2010, called on regional powers on Tuesday to stop meddling in Iraqi coalition talks, blaming them for the absence of a new government nearly four months after elections.(AFP/File/Qassem Zein)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on regional powers on Tuesday to stop meddling in Iraqi coalition talks, blaming them for the absence of a new government nearly four months after elections.


PM warns Iraqis of two more years of power misery (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 08:21 AM 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 - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned Iraqis on Tuesday that two more years of electricity shortages lay ahead as there is no quick fix to the problem despite bloody demonstrations since the weekend.


New killings in campaign against Iraqi ex-insurgents (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:11 AM PDT

Reuters - Two senior members of a government-backed Iraqi militia of former Sunni insurgents were killed on Tuesday, the latest blow in what appears to be a concerted campaign to undermine Iraq's fragile security gains.

Three dead in Iraq unrest (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 01:25 AM PDT

An Iraqi police man uses a dectector as he checks a vehicle at a road block in the capital Baghdad on Monday. Bombers killed two bodyguards of a top Iraqi civil servant and an anti-Qaeda militia commander in separate attacks on Tuesday, security official said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Bombers killed two bodyguards of a top Iraqi civil servant and an anti-Qaeda militia commander in separate attacks on Tuesday, security officials said.


First day of summer in Iraq signals hot, violent months ahead (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 09:06 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The morning after a double suicide bombing of Iraq’s Trade Bank, employees working around collapsed ceilings and bent beams to pack up computer equipment and files say they are a day away from reopening the institution central to Iraq’s reconstruction efforts.
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