2010年12月3日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Clinton: No country should threaten or intimidate Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 12:09 PM PST

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton smiles during a press conference at the foreign ministry in Manama during her two-day visit to Bahrain. Clinton said on Friday that no country AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday that no country "should threaten or intimidate" Iraq or its political process, at a security conference in Bahrain also attended by Iran.


Iraqi writers protest against club closure and alcohol ban (AFP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 10:45 AM PST

Iraqis take part in a protest organised by poets and intellectuals in Al-Mutanabi Street against the closure of social clubs where alcohol is served in Baghdad. Dozens of Iraqi writers and poets took to the streets of Baghdad Friday to protest at the closure of social clubs that serve alcohol in the capital, arguing that it harkened back to Saddam-era repression.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Dozens of Iraqi writers and poets took to the streets of Baghdad Friday to protest at the closure of social clubs that serve alcohol in the capital, arguing that it harkened back to Saddam-era repression.


Family demands Spanish probe in Iraq death case (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 09:57 AM PST

Reuters - The family of a cameraman killed by U.S. fire during in Iraq plans to lodge a legal demand that Spain's state prosecutor probe whether officials bowed to U.S. pressure to shelve a case against the soldiers involved.

Bus crash south of Baghdad kills 24 people (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 08:01 AM PST

The wreckage of a bus is seen at the site of a traffic accident in Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Dozens of people including Iranian pilgrims visiting Shiite holy sites in Iraq, died Friday when two buses collided head-on south of Baghdad, official and eyewitnesses said.(AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - Two buses collided on a highway south of Baghdad on Friday, killing 24 people, including 22 Iranian pilgrims visiting Shiite holy sites in Iraq, officials and eyewitnesses said.


Iraq bus crash kills 14 Iranian pilgrims (AFP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 05:04 AM PST

Iraqi Shiite Muslim women touch the gate of Imam Ali's shrine in Najaf during the commemoration of the death of Imam Ali, prophet Mohammad's nephew and son-in-law, 16 November 2003. Two buses collided in southern Iraq, killing 17 people, including 14 Iranian pilgrims on their way to the Shiite shrine city of Najaf, police and doctors said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Two buses collided in southern Iraq on Friday, killing 17 people, including 14 Iranian pilgrims on their way to the Shiite shrine city of Najaf, police and doctors said.


(AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 12:26 AM PST

AP - Iraq officials: 16 people, including 14 Iranian pilgrims, die in bus accident south of Baghdad.
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