2010年7月4日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Biden urges Iraqi leaders to end grievances (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 01:41 PM PDT

US Vice President Joe Biden (L) meets in Baghdad with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on the second day to his surprise visit to Iraq. Biden met on Sunday with the two men vying to lead Iraq after celebrating Independence Day with American troops at a palace of former dictator Saddam Hussein.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday pleaded to Iraqi leaders to end the bickering and delays that have threatened to derail the conflict-torn nation's democracy since an inconclusive general election.


Blasts mar Biden's call for new gov't, unity (AP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 01:19 PM PDT

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, speaks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, as Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh, center, looks on in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 4, 2010. Vice President Joe Biden says all political blocs must be included in the new Iraqi government in order for it to succeed. Biden met earlier with the two main men who are vying to lead the next government, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and former premier Ayad Allawi.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Vice President Joe Biden urged rival Iraqi politicians Sunday to end months of delays and select new leaders for their wobbly democracy, predicting a peaceful transition of power even as suicide bombers struck government centers in two major cities.


Biden nudges Iraqi leaders to end deadlock (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 01:16 PM PDT

Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden urged Iraqi leaders on Sunday to press ahead and form a government after four months of post-election deadlock but said neither Washington nor anyone else should dictate to them.

PKK bombs Iraq to Turkey pipeline in rare attack (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 11:29 AM PDT

Reuters - The flow of oil on Iraq's main pipeline to Turkey was halted for a third day on Sunday after a technical problem on the Iraqi side was compounded by a bomb attack by suspected PKK rebels in Turkey.

Four die in Iraq suicide bomb attack (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 07:08 AM PDT

An Iraqi police officer mans a road block in Baghdad, as tight security measures are imposed following a spate of bombings and killings across the country, in June. A female suicide bomber has blown herself up at the entrance to government offices in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi killing at least four people, the interior ministry said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A female suicide bomber blew herself up at the entrance to government offices in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday killing at least four people, an interior ministry official said.


Suicide bomber in government HQ in west Iraq kills 3 (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 03:50 AM PDT

Reuters - A female suicide bomber blew herself up Sunday in the governor's compound of Iraq's western Anbar province, killing three people and wounding 39, as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Baghdad, officials said.

Four die in Iraq suicide bomb attack: ministry (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 02:27 AM PDT

An Iraqi police officer mans a road block in Baghdad, as tight security measures are imposed following a spate of bombings and killings across the country, in June. A female suicide bomber has blown herself up at the entrance to government offices in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi killing at least four people, the interior ministry said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A female suicide bomber blew herself up at the entrance to government offices in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday killing at least four people, the interior ministry said.


Kurds blamed for Turkish-Iraqi pipeline blast (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 01:31 AM PDT

File picture shows Iraqi workers fixing a broken pipeline. Kurdish rebels waging a 26-year insurgency are suspected of being behind an explosion in southeastern Turkey that has hit a pipeline carrying oil from Iraq, a local security source said.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Kurdish rebels waging a 26-year insurgency were suspected of being behind a blast in southeastern Turkey that hit a pipeline carrying oil from Iraq, a local security source said Sunday.


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