2011年2月12日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Witness: Unlike Iraq, Egyptians do regime change their way (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 11:55 AM PST

Reuters - Samia Nakhoul, Reuters Middle East News Editor, has reported on the Middle East for Reuters since 1986. After covering civil war in her native Lebanon and the Gulf war of 1990-91, she lived and worked in Egypt during the Islamist insurgency of the mid-1990s. In 2003, she was based in Baghdad throughout the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Now living in London, she has been reporting from Cairo since pro-democracy protests began there last month.

Suicide bomber kills 38, wounds dozens in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 10:15 AM PST

Profits confiscated from British engineering firm Weir for paying illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime are to be ploughed into Iraqi good causes, the Scottish government announced Sunday.(Weir)Reuters - A suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday near a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims at a bus depot in the Iraqi city of Samarra, killing 38 people and wounding scores, police and officials said.


Scores of bodies unearthed at Iraq grave site (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 08:46 AM PST

Reuters - Iraqi authorities have unearthed more than 150 bodies in an area northeast of Baghdad that saw some of the worst fighting in the war, police and local officials said Saturday.

Bomber strikes Shiite pilgrims in Iraq, killing 26 (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 08:24 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2004 file photo, pilgrims walk in front of the famous al-Askari mosque in Samarra, Iraq. A car bomb killed eight pilgrims Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, on the road to one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines, a highly sensitive site still being rebuilt after a 2006 attack that sheered off its gleaming golden dome and engulfed the country in years of sectarian bloodshed. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday on a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims, officials said, killing 26 people headed back from a revered shrine that has been a flashpoint in Iraqi sectarian strife.


Oil workers in Iraq's Kirkuk threaten strike (AFP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 07:49 AM PST

Workers from Iraq's state-owned North Oil Company protest in the northern city of Kirkuk. Some 300 day workers at Iraq's state-owned North Oil Company on Saturday warned they would go on strike if their work conditions did not improve, threatening oil production that is the lifeline of the country's economy.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Some 300 day workers at Iraq's state-owned North Oil Company on Saturday warned they would go on strike if their work conditions did not improve, threatening oil production that is the lifeline of the country's economy.


Iraq mass grave filled with Qaeda victims: police (AFP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 07:45 AM PST

The Iraqi press and military gather at the site of a recently found mass grave close to the northeastern city of Baquba. Iraqi authorities uncovered a mass grave north of Baghdad with 153 bodies of Al-Qaeda victims, many of them women, children and members of the security forces.(AFP/-)AFP - Iraqi authorities uncovered a mass grave north of Baghdad on Saturday with 153 bodies of Al-Qaeda victims, many of them women, children and members of the security forces, police told AFP.


Suicide bomber kills 30 in Iraq pilgrim attack (AFP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 07:36 AM PST

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bus filled with Shiite pilgrims returning from mourning rituals in the Iraqi city of Samarra, killing at least 30 people.(AFP Graphic/AFP Graphic)AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bus filled with Shiite pilgrims returning from mourning rituals in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday, killing at least 30 people, hospital sources said.


(AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 08:45 AM PST

AP - Israel's prime minister welcomes Egyptian military pledge to maintain peace treaty.

Iraq prisoners on hunger strike, alleging torture (AFP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 04:57 AM PST

An Iraqi policeman keeps watch from his post at a checkpoint at the entrance of Amara, 2008. Fifty inmates at the central prison in the city of Amara in southern Iraq have began a hunger strike, claiming they had made confessions under torture and should be freed.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Fifty inmates at the central prison in the city of Amara in southern Iraq have began a hunger strike, claiming they had made confessions under torture and should be freed, a lawmaker said on Saturday.


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