2011年3月26日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


London's biggest protest since Iraq war in 2003 (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 04:58 PM PDT

Back-dropped by Big Ben, demonstrators against the coalition government's spending cuts march in London, Saturday, March 26, 2011.  Tens of thousands of mostly peaceful demonstrators streamed into central London on Saturday to march against government budget cuts, with a small breakaway group smashing its way into a bank, breaking windows and spray painting logos on the walls . (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)AP - More than 250,000 people took to London's streets to protest the toughest spending cuts since World War II — one of the largest demonstrations since the Iraq war — as riot police clashed with a small groups. More than 200 people were arrested.


Rioters battle UK police after anti-cuts rally (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 04:20 PM PDT

Joe, an Italian man living in London prepares to join a protest march organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), in Hyde Park, central London March 26, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin CoombsReuters - Black-clad, masked youths battled riot police and attacked banks and luxury stores in central London on Saturday, overshadowing a protest by more than a quarter of a million Britons against government spending cuts.


Iraq PM says Bahrain crisis may ignite sectarian war (AFP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 06:16 AM PDT

Bahraini Muslim Shiite mourners wave the Bahraini flag during a funeral procession of Hani Abdel Aziz at the Manama suburb of Bilad al-Kadim on March 25. Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has warned that the AFP - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has warned that the "intervention" in Shiite-majority Bahrain by the Gulf kingdom's Sunni neighbours risked a sectarian war in the region.


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