2010年10月19日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

UN envoy in Iraq escapes bombing unharmed (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:44 PM PDT

United Nations Special Representative Ad Melkert leaves following a meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the Shiite city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. The United Nations says its chief envoy in Iraq is unharmed after his convoy was bombed following a meeting with the nation's top Shiite cleric.(AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - The chief U.N. envoy to Iraq escaped unharmed from a bombing that hit his convoy Tuesday after a meeting with the nation's top Shiite cleric about how to unsnarl Iraq's stalemated government. The U.N. said a member of the Iraqi security forces was killed and several others were injured in the attack.

UN Iraq envoy unhurt after bomb attack on convoy (AFP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 12:34 PM PDT

UN special envoy to Iraq, Ad Melkert, speaks following a meeting with Iraq's Shiite Muslim spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. Melkert, escaped unhurt in a bomb attack on Tuesday that targeted a convoy of vehicles south of Baghdad, UN and police officials said.(AFP/Qassem Zein)AFP - The UN envoy to Iraq, Dutch diplomat Ad Melkert, was unhurt after a bomb attack on Tuesday that targeted a convoy of vehicles south of Baghdad, UN and police officials said.

Priests marrying helps Christianity in Iraq: bishop (AFP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 11:59 AM PDT

An Iraqi security guard stands outside a Syriac Catholic church in Baghdad in April 2010. Allowing priests to marry has contributed to the survival of the Christian faith in Iraq, said Lebanese Bishop Guy-Paul Noujaim Tuesday, on the sidelines of a Middle East synod at the Vatican.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Allowing priests to marry has contributed to the survival of the Christian faith in Iraq, said Lebanese Bishop Guy-Paul Noujaim Tuesday, on the sidelines of a Middle East synod at the Vatican.

U.N. envoy in Iraq unhurt after bomb hits his convoy (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 11:20 AM PDT

Reuters - A roadside bomb some Iraqi officials blamed on Shi'ite militants hit a convoy on Tuesday carrying the U.N. special envoy to Iraq, Ad Melkert, but he was unhurt, the United Nations said.

Pre-dawn bomb kills eight in Tikrit (AFP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 07:51 AM PDT

An Iraqi soldier inspects the damage after a bomb attack in Tikrit. Iraqi police said a huge bomb tore through the home of an Iraqi police officer in Tikrit, killing eight members of his family as they slept.(AFP)AFP - A huge bomb tore through the home of an Iraqi police officer in Tikrit before dawn Tuesday, killing eight members of his family as they slept, including a two-year-old girl, police said.

Most Iraqi refugees regret return: UNHCR (AFP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 05:16 AM PDT

A returning Iraqi refugee waits with her belongings at Baghdad bus station in 2008. Most refugees who have returned to Iraq have since regretted their move after finding that they faced persistent threats to their security, according to the UN refugee agency.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Most refugees who have returned to Iraq have since regretted their move after finding that they faced persistent threats to their security, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.

UN survey finds Iraqis regret returning to Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 05:09 AM PDT

AP - The U.N. refugee agency says 61 percent of Iraqis who fled the country but then returned to Baghdad in 2007 and 2008 regretted coming back.

Bombing of police official's home kills 11 in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:58 AM PDT

Dan Choi, an Iraq War veteran and a West Point graduate who was discharged from the military in July because he announced publicly that he is gay, reacts as he waits to enter the U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Center in Times Square, hoping to re-enlist on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)Reuters - Bombs destroyed the home of a senior Iraqi police commander on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people in the northern city of Tikrit, the hometown of former dictator Saddam Hussein, police said.

Five killed in Iraq attacks on police, pilgrims (AFP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 12:55 AM PDT

A woman walks past a policeman in Baghdad on October 6, 2010. Two policemen and three members of a police officer's family were killed while 12 Iranian pilgrims were wounded in a spate of bomb attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, an interior ministry official said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Two policemen and three members of a police officer's family were killed while 12 Iranian pilgrims were wounded in a spate of bomb attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, an interior ministry official said.

Pentagon cautions news media on WikiLeaks documents (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2010 07:03 PM PDT

The homepage of the WikiLeaks website. The Pentagon on Monday urged media outlets not to publish any of the roughly 400,000 stolen military files which the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks says it would make public soon.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)Reuters - The Pentagon urged news organizations on Monday not to publish classified U.S. documents due to be released by WikiLeaks as U.S. officials brace for a mass disclosure of leaked Iraq war files by the whistle-blower website.

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