Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Four killed in Iraq attacks (AFP)
• Iraqi Kurdish leader boosts power to disputed city (AP)
• Iraq can barely handle oil security in south (Reuters)
• Tale of two ports strains Iraq-Kuwait ties (Reuters)
• Iraq sentences Al-Qaeda chief's widow to life (AFP)
• Iraq rice farmers get extra power allocation (AFP)

Four killed in Iraq attacks (AFP) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 01:17 PM PDT AFP - A high-ranking housing ministry official, another civilian and two soldiers were killed in attacks in Iraq on Wednesday, an interior ministry official and an army officer said.

Iraqi Kurdish leader boosts power to disputed city (AP) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 12:10 PM PDT AP - The president of Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region said Wednesday he is giving free electricity to the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, where he wants to wrest control from the central government in Baghdad.

Iraq can barely handle oil security in south (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:20 AM PDT Reuters - Iraq is barely capable of protecting its vital oil infrastructure and could falter if its oil police do not get enough manpower and sophisticated security equipment soon, a senior Iraqi security official said.

Tale of two ports strains Iraq-Kuwait ties (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 06:10 AM PDT Reuters - Sitting in a traditional black funeral tent near Iraq's only outlet to the sea, businessman Sadiq Jaafar is mourning the "death" of his country's biggest port -- even before it is built.

Iraq sentences Al-Qaeda chief's widow to life (AFP) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:33 AM PDT AFP - A Baghdad court has handed a life jail sentence to the widow of Al-Qaeda's top chief in Iraq, killed last year in a joint US-Iraqi military raid, a judiciary official said on Wednesday.

Iraq rice farmers get extra power allocation (AFP) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 03:45 AM PDT AFP - Authorities have ordered an extra allocation of electricity to rice farmers in central Iraq to help them irrigate their fields and rescue drought-threatened crops, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

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