2011年6月22日星期三

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Five dead, 36 wounded in Iraq attacks (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 12:21 PM PDT

Members of an Iraqi anti-terror unit stand guard at a checkpoint in Baghdad. Bomb and gun attacks in Baghdad and northern Iraq on Wednesday killed five people and wounded 36, 15 of them policemen, officials said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Bomb and gun attacks in Baghdad and northern Iraq on Wednesday killed five people and wounded 36, 15 of them policemen, officials said.


Italy probes ENI for corruption in Iraq, Kuwait (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:55 AM PDT

Iraqi Southern Oil Company engineers look towards the flares in the Zubair oil field in southern Iraq in 2010. An Italian prosecutor is investigating the country's largest energy group ENI and two of its executives over suspected corruption related to projects in Iraq and Kuwait, the company said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Essam -al-Sudani)AFP - An Italian prosecutor is investigating the country's largest energy group ENI and two of its executives over suspected corruption related to projects in Iraq and Kuwait, the company said Wednesday.


For Baghdad's poor, city garbage brings in the bread (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:50 AM PDT

People collect junk material from a dumpsite in Baghdad's Sadr City July 24, 2008. REUTERS/Kareem RaheemReuters - Iraq's leaders hope the country's still largely untapped oil wealth can one day rival Saudi Arabia and provide a decent living to its citizens after years of conflict and chaos.


Iraq's moribund manufacturing sector appeals for help (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:45 AM PDT

A man works at a soft drinks bottler in Baghdad's Zaafaraniya district January 10, 2011. REUTERS/Saad ShalashReuters - Standing beside the dust- covered machines of his idle biscuit and sweet factory in eastern Baghdad, Fadhil al-Abboudi says Iraq's small private manufacturers are feeling abandoned.


Iranian oil delegation attacked in Baghdad (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:27 AM PDT

Reuters - Gunmen attacked an Iranian oil delegation visiting Baghdad on Wednesday, the Iranian Oil Ministry said.

Four dead, dozens hurt in attacks on Iraqi police (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 05:27 AM PDT

Reuters - Militants attacked Iraqi police with guns and explosives and lobbed a mortar round at a security headquarters Wednesday, killing four people and wounding dozens in the latest assault on security forces.

Iraq probes missing $17B reconstruction funds (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 05:20 AM PDT

AP - Iraqi lawmakers say they are trying to figure out what happened to about $17 billion that was supposed to be used for reconstruction.

Why the Muslim Brotherhood Are Egypt's Best Democrats (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:25 AM PDT

Time.com - After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, many Western commentators were surprised at the ease with which Iraq's religious movements adapted to multiparty democracy

Iraq: Attacks kill 1 civilian, wound 30 people (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 12:42 AM PDT

Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of two car bombs that ripped through a group of policemen outside the local ogvernor's home in the central Iraqi city of Diwaniyah. Two car bombs ripped through a guard post killing 26 policemen outside the provincial governor's home in Diwaniyah city, officials said, amid a surge of violence across Iraq.(AFP/-)AP - Officials say a series of attacks in the Iraqi capital during rush hour have left one person dead and 30 others wounded.


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