2011年5月15日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

'Old cluster bomb' kills three Iraqi children (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 11:56 AM PDT

Iraqi men walk by cluster bombs in Najaf, in 2003. Three young boys were killed and another was badly wounded on Sunday when an unexploded cluster bomb detonated in south Iraq, medical and security officials said.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)AFP - Three young boys were killed and another was badly wounded on Sunday when an unexploded cluster bomb detonated in south Iraq, medical and security officials said.

Iraq to bring banks to the masses -- by mobile (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 11:10 AM PDT

Mobile phones on display. Just a fifth of Iraqis have bank accounts, but 70 percent have mobile phones, so Baghdad is hoping to close the gap by getting people to open accounts, make payments and transfer cash -- all via mobile.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - Just a fifth of Iraqis have bank accounts, but 70 percent have mobile phones, so Baghdad is hoping to close the gap by getting people to open accounts, make payments and transfer cash -- all via mobile.

US law students help resettle Iraqi refugees (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 08:38 AM PDT

This January 2010 photo released by the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project shows student project director Stephen Poellot, left, a student at Yale Law School, and Aseel Zahran, second from left, a project volunteer in Jordan, working with an Iraqi family on their resettlement case in in Amman, Jordan. The group reports it has helped resettle more than 400 Iraqi refugees in the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Ireland and Sweden. (AP Photo/Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, Susannah Stevens)AP - As a Christian human rights activist in Iraq, Ban Jamil Yousef Katto lived in fear. Her priest and friends were killed in a church massacre and nearby explosions twice destroyed her apartment in Baghdad.

Five killed in Iraq violence (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 07:00 AM PDT

Security forces inspect a bus which was hit by a Katyusha rocket in Baghdad. Three members of the same family and two other people have been killed in violence in the capital and northern Iraq, including a string of Baghdad rocket attacks, a security official said.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Three members of the same family and two other people were killed in violence in the capital and northern Iraq on Sunday, including a string of Baghdad rocket attacks, a security official said.

Police: 5 killed in 2 attacks in Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 06:23 AM PDT

People inspect damage after a mortar landed in Baghdad's central Tahrir Square, Iraq, Sunday, May 15, 2011. Two mortar rounds slammed into the street at about 1:00 p.m., killing two pedestrians and injuring eight others, a police officer said. He said the mortar rounds were aimed at Baghdad's Green Zone, which houses Iraqi government headquarters and the U.S. and British embassies. Two other mortar rounds landed in the Green Zone, but there was no immediate word on casualties. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Gunmen broke into a house early Sunday and fatally shot a family of three as they slept, Iraqi officials said. Separately, mortar rounds struck in central Baghdad, killing two.

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