2010年11月26日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Italian FM to ask for Aziz clemency on Iraq visit (AFP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 09:43 AM PST

Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz testifies in 2006. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini will ask Iraqi authorities during a visit next month for AFP - Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini will ask Iraqi authorities during a visit next month for "a gesture of clemency" against the death sentence for Saddam-era minister Tareq Aziz, a spokesman said Friday.

Cairo-based TV in church siege row ends Iraq operations (AFP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 09:42 AM PST

An Iraqi mourner holds up a portrait of 32-year-old slain priest Taher Saadallah Boutros, known as Father Athir (R), as he sits next to his coffin during a funeral procession in Baghdad. Cairo-based satellite TV channel Al-Baghdadiya said Friday it had shut its Iraq operations, weeks after its broadcasts were cut for airing demands of militants who took Christians hostage in a church.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Cairo-based satellite TV channel Al-Baghdadiya said Friday it had shut its Iraq operations, weeks after its broadcasts were cut for airing demands of militants who took Christians hostage in a church.

Final draft of Iraq gas deal with Shell within 10 days (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:32 AM PST

Reuters - The final draft of Iraq's multibillion-dollar deal with Royal Dutch Shell to capture flared gas at southern oilfields will be completed within 10 days, a senior Iraqi oil official said on Friday.

Iraq Kurdish leader: A uniter in a divided nation (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 10:22 PM PST

FILE - In this June. 27, 2009 file photo, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, left, and President Jalal Talabani, right, react, at a ceremony marking the 2003 death of Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi state television reports on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010, that the president has officially asked incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to form the next government. The long-awaited announcement is part of a deal to end an eight-month deadlock over who would lead the country following the inconclusive March 7 elections. President Jalal Talabani's move sets in motion a 30-day timeline for al-Maliki to accomplish the challenging task of forming his Cabinet. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)AP - In his five years as Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani has shown a remarkable ability to rise above the ethnic and religious divisions defining the country's political scene — sometimes at the expense of his own Kurdish identity.

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