Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraq's Unformed Government: What Do the Kurds Want? (Time.com)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,424 (AP)
• Invest in Iraq now or miss out, says U.S. envoy (Reuters)
• Norway's DNO ordered to pay damages to Yemenite businessman (AFP)
• Iraq PM, US diplomat meet over government formation (AFP)
• High court: Does father's pain trump free speech? (AP)
• Iraqi Christians flee homeland even as war fades (Reuters)
• Supreme Court: Can Westboro Baptist Church protest military funerals? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Iraq election breakthrough? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Iraq's Unformed Government: What Do the Kurds Want? (Time.com) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:35 PM PDT Time.com - The Kurds are key to Maliki's ability to form his ruling coalition. TIME asks the head of Iraq's Kurdish regional government for his assessment

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,424 (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 03:13 PM PDT AP - As of Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, at least 4,424 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Invest in Iraq now or miss out, says U.S. envoy (Reuters) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 10:19 AM PDT Reuters - American companies should invest in Iraq now to avoid losing out on opportunities to other international firms, a U.S. envoy leading a trade mission to the investment-starved country said on Wednesday.

Norway's DNO ordered to pay damages to Yemenite businessman (AFP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 09:26 AM PDT AFP - Norwegian oil firm DNO, among the first foreign firms authorised to operate in Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein, said on Wednesday it had been ordered by a London court to pay damages to a former business partner.

Iraq PM, US diplomat meet over government formation (AFP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 08:09 AM PDT AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki met a senior US diplomat on Wednesday over the country's ongoing political stalemate, which has seen no new government formed since March elections, his office said.

High court: Does father's pain trump free speech? (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:40 PM PDT AP - Supreme Court justices, in a rare public display of sympathy, strongly suggested Wednesday they would like to rule for a dead Marine's father against fundamentalist church members who picketed his son's funeral — but aren't sure they can.

Iraqi Christians flee homeland even as war fades (Reuters) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 07:02 AM PDT Reuters - Bassam Hermiz has slashed prices to clear his stock of electrical appliances, close his shop and join many thousands of other Iraqi Christians abroad.

Supreme Court: Can Westboro Baptist Church protest military funerals? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:36 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The US Supreme Court is set to hear a high-stakes battle over free speech on Wednesday in an appeal filed by the father of a US Marine killed in Iraq who claims his son’s funeral in 2006 was disrupted and ruined by an antigay protest.

Iraq election breakthrough? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 12:43 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A flurry of proposals has led to considerable movement in Iraq’s seven-month political deadlock but neither Iraqi nor US officials are counting on an imminent announcement ending Iraq’s epic struggle to form a government.

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