2011年3月28日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


IMF skeptical of Iraq oil targets (AFP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:12 PM PDT

An Iraqi oil worker works at an oil field in the southern Rumaila area in 2007. The International Monetary Fund Monday expressed doubts over Iraq's ability to meet its long-term targets for oil production, currently the source of nearly 90 percent of government income.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - The International Monetary Fund Monday expressed doubts over Iraq's ability to meet its long-term targets for oil production, currently the source of nearly 90 percent of government income.


Marine gets probation for accepting bribes in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:33 PM PDT

AP - A U.S. Marine has been sentenced to five years' probation for accepting a $25,000 bribe to award $1 million in contracts in Iraq to a Lebanese company.

Iraq hopes Erdogan visit will boost economic ties (AFP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:57 AM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is greeted as he arrives in Baghdad. Erdogan received a red carpet welcome in Baghdad on Monday, on a visit Iraq hopes will boost trade and overcome differences over a decades-old Kurdish insurgency.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan received a red carpet welcome in Baghdad on Monday, on a visit Iraq hopes will boost trade and overcome differences over a decades-old Kurdish insurgency.


Iraq violence leaves 13 dead (AFP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:09 AM PDT

Oil ministry workers demonstrate against the corruption in the ministry demanding the removal of the general director and his assistants in Firdus Square in centre of Baghdad on March 9, 2011. A spate of unrelated attacks around Iraq killed 13 people, including seven in the northern city of Mosul and four during a jewellery heist in Baghdad, police and other sources said on Monday.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A spate of unrelated attacks around Iraq killed 13 people, including seven in the northern city of Mosul and four during a jewellery heist in Baghdad, police and other sources said on Monday.


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