2011年3月3日星期四

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Hard time for Iraqi refugees in weak U.S. job market (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:00 PM PST

Reuters - Fleeing after years of war in Iraq, many refugees arriving in the United States can't find the jobs they need to rebuild their lives.

Sunni-backed leader rejects Iraq post (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 10:54 AM PST

FILE - In this June 19, 2010 file photo, former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi speaks to reporters in Baghdad, Iraq. A spokeswoman for former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Thursday, March 3, 2011 he has decided not to take a post in the new Iraqi government, possibly further marginalizing the country's minority Sunni population which strongly backed him. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)AP - Iraq's shaky governing coalition received a setback Thursday when the leader of a political bloc backed by Iraq's minority Sunnis rejected a position specially created for him in the new government.


Iraqi Kurd leader moots possibility of early polls (AFP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 10:02 AM PST

Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani, pictured on March 1, raised the possibility on Thursday of early elections in the autonomous region after a spate of protests there.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani raised the possibility on Thursday of early elections in the autonomous region after a spate of protests there.


Iraq PM demands Kurdish forces leave disputed city (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 09:54 AM PST

Reuters - Iraq's prime minister asked the Kurdistan Regional Government Thursday to remove thousands of troops surrounding the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk without central government permission, a cabinet source said.

Suicide bomb attack kills nine at Iraq bank: mayor (AFP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 09:01 AM PST

Iraqi anti-terror police stand guard at a checkpoint in Baghdad. A suicide bomber has blown himself up inside a bank in the northwestern Iraqi city of Haditha, killing nine people, including three policemen, according to the town's mayor.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bank in the northwestern Iraqi city of Haditha on Thursday, killing nine people, including three policemen, the town's mayor said.


Libya live report (AFP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:56 PM PST

A resident of the north-central Libyan city of Benghazi stands atop a burning heap of books authored by Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi at a local park of the city.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)AFP - 2300 GMT: This concludes AFP live reporting on the Libyan crisis and events in North Africa and the Middle East for Thursday. Here is a recap of the main developments:


(AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:46 AM PST

AP - Police say suicide bomber targeting Iraqi soldiers in western Iraq kills 8 people.

Suicide bomber kills 10, wounds 26 in Iraq: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:11 AM PST

Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, second right, and former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, second left, speak to reporters after their meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 3, 2011. The former prime minister who led a political coalition heavily supported by Iraq's minority Sunnis has rejected a position in the nation's new government, a spokeswoman said Thursday, a move that could marginalize Sunnis at a time when anger about shoddy government services have prompted deadly protests. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)Reuters - A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and wounded 26 others at a government bank in the northern Iraqi town of Haditha Thursday, police and hospital sources said.


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