2010年7月2日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Gunmen kill senior Iraqi Sunni cleric (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 12:44 PM PDT

Reuters - A senior Sunni cleric from the western province of Anbar was shot dead on Friday evening, as tensions simmered in Iraq following an inconclusive election in March that produced no outright winner, police said.

Supertanker skims oil as spill now worst accident on record (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 01:28 PM PDT

Oil cleanup workers try to remove thick oil that washed ashore in Gulfport, Mississippi. A supertanker began skimming oil in the Gulf of Mexico Friday as the disaster became the worst accidental spill on record, surpassed only by the deliberate release by Iraqi troops during the 1991 Gulf War.(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)AFP - A Taiwanese supertanker began preliminary efforts to skim oil in the Gulf of Mexico Friday as the disaster became the worst accidental spill on record.


Turkish jets bomb Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 06:36 AM PDT

A Turkish soldier patrols a road in Sirnak province. Twelve Kurdish rebels and five members of the Turkish security forces were killed in violent clashes in the southeast of the country following two separate Kurdish attacks.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AP - Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq over the past two days, Turkey's military said Friday, a day after violent clashes between the troops and rebels claimed 17 lives.


Kurd leader talks of truce as Turkish jets bomb Iraq targets (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 05:57 AM PDT

Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) rebels at a checkpoint in the Qandil mountains in northern Iraq. Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan raised the prospect of a truce with Turkey to end simmering violence as Turkish jets bombed rebel targets in neighbouring Iraq.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AFP - Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan on Friday raised the prospect of a truce with Turkey to end simmering violence as Turkish jets bombed rebel targets in neighbouring Iraq.


Kurd conflict comes back to haunt Turkey before polls (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:32 AM PDT

Men play a game in a tea house in the southeastern Turkish city of Hakkari, June 28, 2010. REUTERS/Umit BektasReuters - Helicopter gunships clatter above the plunging ravines on the Turkish-Iraqi frontier, scouring the mountainsides for Kurdish rebel fighters.


Turkish air strike hits rebel targets in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:15 AM PDT

Reuters - Clashes between Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey intensified on Friday after Turkish planes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq.

Turkish jets bomb Kurdish rebel targets in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 03:20 AM PDT

Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) rebels at a checkpoint in the Qandil mountains in northern Iraq. Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan raised the prospect of a truce with Turkey to end simmering violence as Turkish jets bombed rebel targets in neighbouring Iraq.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AFP - Turkish jets bombed Kurdish rebel targets in neighbouring northern Iraq overnight following deadly clashes inside Turkey, the military said Friday.


US military: 2 American soldiers die in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 02:13 AM PDT

Oil clean-up workers pick up oily globs as they remove residue washing ashore in Pascagoula, Mississippi. A supertanker began skimming oil in the Gulf of Mexico Friday as the disaster became the worst accidental spill on record, surpassed only by the deliberate release by Iraqi troops during the 1991 Gulf War.(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)AP - The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in Iraq.


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