2011年1月24日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Defense calls death accident, not 'honor killing' (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 04:40 PM PST

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Peoria Police Department shows Faleh Almaleki. Police allege Iraqi immigrant Almaleki slammed his Jeep into his 20-year-old daughter, Noor Almaleki, and her boyfriend's mother in the parking lot of a state Department of Economic Security office in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria in 2009 because he believed his daughter was too Westernized. A Phoenix jury will hear opening statements Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 in the murder case. (AP Photo/Peoria Police Department, File)AP - There is no doubt that an Iraqi immigrant ran over and killed his 20-year-old daughter and injured her boyfriend's mother in a suburban Phoenix parking lot in October 2009, a prosecutor and defense attorney agreed Monday.

UNHCR: Iraq needs plan for returning refugees (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 01:26 PM PST

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres speaks at a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. The head of the U.N. refugee agency says the resettlement of Palestinian refugees stranded on the Iraq-Syria border is nearly complete. Palestinians in Iraq became a target for persecution after Saddam Hussein's regime fell in 2003 and were forced to flee to Syria. Thousands were refused asylum and stranded on the border.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - The head of the U.N. refugee agency expressed hope Monday that the end was in sight for Iraq's refugee crisis but called on the new government to develop a plan to tackle sensitive issues like property rights for those who return.

Poor economy hampering Iraq refugee return: UNHCR (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 12:13 PM PST

An Iraqi woman looks at a stall selling imported second hand clothes at a market in the southern city of Kut, 175 kms from Baghdad, in 2009. Unemployment and socio-economic problems, and not violence, are the biggest barrier holding Iraqi refugees from returning to their country, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said Monday.(AFP/File/Ali al-Alak)AFP - Unemployment and socio-economic problems, and not violence, are the biggest barrier holding Iraqi refugees from returning to their country, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said Monday.

Iraq: Car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims kill 26 (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 10:27 AM PST

Shiite pilgrims are seen in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011, as faithful flock to the holy city for Arbaeen, marking the end of the forty-day mourning period after the anniversary of the 7th century martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)AP - Two car bombs tore through parking lots packed with Shiite pilgrims Monday in an Iraqi holy city, pushing the death toll from a week of attacks to more than 170.

Iraq minister denies prisoner abuse (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 10:12 AM PST

Iraqi prisoners at a detention centre on the outskirts of Baghdad. The minister in charge of Iraqi prisons on Monday denied that a security force linked to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has been holding detainees for months without access to lawyers or their families.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - The minister in charge of Iraqi prisons on Monday denied that a security force linked to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has been holding detainees for months without access to lawyers or their families.

Triple attacks on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq kill 12 (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 04:52 AM PST

Shiite Muslim pilgrims gather at the Imam Abbas shrine in Karbala. Three car bombs have ripped through crowds near Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, killing 12 people and wounding dozens in fresh attacks on pilgrims arriving for religious rituals.(AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Three car bombs ripped through crowds near Iraq's shrine city of Karbala on Monday, killing 12 people and wounding dozens in fresh attacks on pilgrims arriving for religious rituals.

(AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:08 AM PST

AP - Officials say 2nd car bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims in Iraqi holy city has killed 10 people.

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