2010年7月16日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


28 killed in hotel fire in Iraq's Kurdish region (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 03:04 PM PDT

View of the fire-damaged Soma Hotel in the Iraqi northern city of Sulaimaniyah. Four Americans and at least three other foreigners were among 29 people killed in a hotel fire in northern Iraq that saw some of the victims jump to their deaths.(AFP/Shwan Mohammed)AP - A fierce blaze at a hotel without fire escapes sent some desperate guests plunging to their deaths in a northern Iraqi oil boomtown, killing 28 people.


Foreigners among 30 dead in Iraq hotel blaze (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 11:38 AM PDT

View of the fire-damaged Soma Hotel in the Iraqi northern city of Sulaimaniyah. Guests leapt desperately to their deaths from upper-floor windows as a fire tore through a hotel in northern Iraq killing 30 people, 14 of them foreigners, police and medics said on Friday.(AFP/Shwan Mohammed)AFP - Guests leapt desperately to their deaths from upper-floor windows as a fire tore through a hotel in northern Iraq killing 30 people, 14 of them foreigners, police and medics said on Friday.


Iraqis to seek torture inquiry in Britain (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 10:49 AM PDT

Iraqi detainees sleep outside their tents inside the Camp Bucca detention centre located near the Kuwait-Iraq border in 2008. More than 100 Iraqis who claim they were tortured and abused by British forces after the invasion of Iraq won a key legal battle in London on Friday in their bid to force a public inquiry.(AFP/File/David Furst)AFP - More than 100 Iraqis who claim they were tortured and abused by British forces after the invasion of Iraq won a key legal battle in London on Friday in their bid to force a public inquiry.


Hotel fire kills 30 in Iraq's Kurdish north (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 08:13 AM PDT

Reuters - A fire at a hotel in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya, possibly triggered by a gas leak or electric fault, killed 30 people, including many foreigners, and injured 22, police said Friday.
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