Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraqis rally against extending U.S. troops presence (Reuters)
• Easter church blast wounds four in Baghdad (AFP)
• US appeals court revives Iraq Blackwater case (AFP)
• Iran, Iraq sign agreements on Iranian opposition (AP)
• Iraq fires up new power plant in Baghdad (Reuters)
• Iraqi Christians resilient on Easter (Reuters)
• 7 wounded in Easter bombing outside Baghdad church (AP)
• At least four hurt in Easter blast near Baghdad church (Reuters)
• Iraqi Christians mark a restrained Easter (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Insurgents step up assassinations in Iraq (AFP)
• Dutch statesman Max van der Stoel dies at age 86 (AP)

Iraqis rally against extending U.S. troops presence (Reuters) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 01:38 PM PDT Reuters - MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) -Thousands of Iraqis rallied in the northern city of Mosul Sunday in one of the biggest protests yet against any extension of the U.S. military presence in Iraq.

Easter church blast wounds four in Baghdad (AFP) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 11:53 AM PDT AFP - A roadside bomb explosion wounded four people, including two policemen, near a small church in the Iraqi capital on Easter Sunday, medical and security officials said.

US appeals court revives Iraq Blackwater case (AFP) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 10:41 AM PDT AFP - A US appeals court has reopened the prosecution of four former Blackwater security guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007, documents obtained by AFP Sunday showed.

Iran, Iraq sign agreements on Iranian opposition (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 10:06 AM PDT AP - Iran and Iraq on Sunday signed agreements to return each others' detainees, which could lead to the forced repatriation of an Iranian opposition group based in Iraq, Iranian state TV reported.

Iraq fires up new power plant in Baghdad (Reuters) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 10:01 AM PDT Reuters - Iraq's Ministry of Electricity and Iranian power development firm Sunir inaugurated a $150 million, 320-megawatt power plant in Baghdad on Sunday that should boost Iraq's feeble electricity supply.

Iraqi Christians resilient on Easter (Reuters) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 07:27 AM PDT Reuters - Raad's eyes well up with tears as he remembers his cousin and friends who were among 52 people killed in an assault on a cathedral in Baghdad last October.

7 wounded in Easter bombing outside Baghdad church (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 07:05 AM PDT AP - At least seven people were injured when a bomb outside the entrance of a Baghdad church exploded on Easter Sunday, an Iraqi police official said.

At least four hurt in Easter blast near Baghdad church (Reuters) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 06:52 AM PDT Reuters - A roadside bomb exploded near the rear entrance of a Catholic church in Baghdad after Easter services on Sunday, wounding at least two police officers and two civilians.

Iraqi Christians mark a restrained Easter (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 06:35 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Iraqi Christians marked a restrained Easter weekend as fear of attacks kept many from openly celebrating their most sacred day of the year and church officials urged them not to give up on the country.

Insurgents step up assassinations in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 06:32 AM PDT AFP - Insurgents have in Iraq stepped up deadly gun attacks against senior officials and military leaders in a bid to undermine public trust in the security forces, officers and analysts said on Sunday.

Dutch statesman Max van der Stoel dies at age 86 (AP) Posted: 24 Apr 2011 03:59 AM PDT AP - After the first Gulf War, Max van der Stoel was the expression of the world's conscience and a thorn in the side of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Every year for eight years, the former Dutch foreign minister and special U.N. human rights representative wrote stinging denunciations of Saddam's abuses of his people.

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