2011年2月13日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Young Iraqis send Valentine to leaders (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 01:44 PM PST

An Iraqi vendor displays gifts for Valentine's Day at his shop in central Baghdad in 2008. Young Iraqis are to hold a Valentine's Day rally on Monday to call on their leaders to love the war-battered country rather than rob its resources, an organiser told AFP.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Young Iraqis are to hold a Valentine's Day rally on Monday to call on their leaders to love the war-battered country rather than rob its resources, an organiser told AFP.


Iraq's Maliki hails 'peaceful change' in Egypt: US (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 11:35 AM PST

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during an interview in Baghdad on February 5. Maliki hailed Egypt's AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki hailed Egypt's "peaceful transition" from authoritarian rule, the White House said after he spoke with US Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday.


Maliki fills power, trade, other Iraq cabinet jobs (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 10:46 AM PST

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during a joint news conference with Iraqi parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi in Baghdad December 20, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenReuters - Iraq's parliament approved eight new ministers on Sunday but Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has yet to decide who will hold sensitive security posts in the cabinet such as defense and interior.


Death toll in Iraq blast rises to 36 (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 07:05 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 - The death toll for a suicide bombing the day before on a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims rose to 36, Iraqi officials said Sunday about one of the deadliest acts of violence against the country's majority Muslim sect this year.


Iraq parliament approves eight new ministers (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 06:51 AM PST

MPs seated in parliament in Baghdad in December 2010. Iraq's parliament approved eight new ministers on Sunday, filling some crucial posts in the premier's new cabinet but still leaving three sensitive security portfolios and the planning ministry vacant.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraq's parliament approved eight new ministers on Sunday, filling some crucial posts in the premier's new cabinet but still leaving three sensitive security portfolios and the planning ministry vacant.


Death toll from Iraqi suicide attack rises to 33 (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:07 AM PST

The death toll from an attack in which a suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a bus filled with Shiite pilgrims near the Iraqi city of Samarra has risen to 33, medics said on Sunday.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - The death toll from an attack in which a suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a bus filled with Shiite pilgrims near the Iraqi city of Samarra has risen to 33, medics said on Sunday.


Death toll rises to 48 in Iraq suicide bombing (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:34 AM PST

Reuters - The toll from a suicide bombing that targeted Shi'ite pilgrims near the city of Samarra, one of Iraq's worst in recent weeks, rose to 48 dead and 80 wounded, police and officials said on Sunday.
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