2012年3月25日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraqi woman severely beaten in Calif. home dies

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A woman from Iraq who was found beaten next to a threatening note saying "go back to your country" has died, and police are investigating the possibility of a hate crime.

Toulouse killer's brother charged in shootings

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Police vehicles carrying Abdelkader Merah, the older brother of the Toulouse gunman Mohamed MerahThe brother of an Islamist gunman whose grisly murder spree shocked France was charged Sunday with complicity in the attacks, but his lawyer said he should not be made a scapegoat.


French gunman's brother suspected of complicity

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Police stand opposite the French domestic intelligence agency (DCRI) headquarters in Levallois-Perret, near ParisPARIS (Reuters) - The brother of an al Qaeda-inspired gunman shot dead by French police was placed under investigation on Sunday for suspected complicity in a killing spree that has made security a central election issue, with President Nicolas Sarkozy scenting an advantage. Sarkozy, buoyed by a rise in opinion polls four weeks from the first round of a presidential vote, renewed hostilities with rival Francois Hollande over the weekend, saying the Socialist front runner was unfit to protect France's security interests. ...


Russia says Annan offers last chance for Syria

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Dmitry Medvedev (L) shakes hands with Kofi Annan during their meeting in MoscowRussian President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Sunday that Kofi Annan represented the last chance for avoiding a civil war in Syria and offered the UN-Arab League envoy Moscow's full support.


Financial struggles common among military families

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Military families aren't surprised when they hear about the financial struggles that Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, his wife and children faced at home. It's part of their lives, too.

French gunman's brother charged, denies role

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An unidentified man with his head covered, believed to be Abdelkader Merah or his companion, sits between masked police officers as they head to the French police's anti-terrorist headquarters in Levallois-Perret, outside Paris, Saturday, March 24, 2012. Merah's brother, Mohamed Merah is blamed for a series of deadly shootings which have shocked France and upended the country's presidential race. Merah, who claimed allegiance to al-Qaida, died in a hail of gunfire Thursday after a dramatic 32-hour-long standoff with law enforcement. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)A Frenchman suspected of helping his brother plot attacks against Jewish schoolchildren and paratroopers was handed preliminary murder and terrorism charges Sunday.


Lawyer: Frenchman's brother knew nothing of plot

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An unidentified man with his head covered, believed to be Abdelkader Merah or his companion, sits between masked police officers as they head to the French police's anti-terrorist headquarters in Levallois-Perret, outside Paris, Saturday, March 24, 2012. Merah's brother, Mohamed Merah is blamed for a series of deadly shootings which have shocked France and upended the country's presidential race. Merah, who claimed allegiance to al-Qaida, died in a hail of gunfire Thursday after a dramatic 32-hour-long standoff with law enforcement. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)A lawyer says a Frenchman suspected of helping his brother plot attacks against Jewish schoolchildren and paratroopers knew nothing about what was going on.


French judge opens formal probe into gunman brother

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PARIS (Reuters) - A French judge placed the brother of an al Qaeda-inspired gunman under formal investigation on Sunday, meaning he will be moved to a prison and remain there for the duration of an inquiry into suspected complicity in a spate of fatal shootings. A legal source told Reuters that four anti-terrorist judges would lead an inquiry into gunman Mohamed Merah's killing of three Jewish children, a rabbi and three soldiers, and investigate his elder brother Abdelkader Merah for complicity. ...

France files charges against gunman's brother

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An unidentified man with his head covered, believed to be Abdelkader Merah or his companion, sits between masked police officers as they head to the French police's anti-terrorist headquarters in Levallois-Perret, outside Paris, Saturday, March 24, 2012. Merah's brother, Mohamed Merah is blamed for a series of deadly shootings which have shocked France and upended the country's presidential race. Merah, who claimed allegiance to al-Qaida, died in a hail of gunfire Thursday after a dramatic 32-hour-long standoff with law enforcement. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)A French judge filed preliminary murder and terrorism charges Sunday against the brother of a gunman who killed Jewish schoolchildren and paratroopers in attacks that stunned the country.


Arab League chief meets Maliki ahead of Iraq summit

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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (R) welcomes Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi (L)Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi arrived in Baghdad on Sunday ahead of this week's Arab summit in the Iraqi capital, the first to be held here in more than 20 years.


Kuwait arrests 7 Iraqi sailors in its waters: KUNA

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KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwaiti coastguards arrested seven Iraqi sailors on a fishing boat on Sunday, saying they had trespassed into Kuwait's northern territorial waters, state-run news agency KUNA said. The sailors had been taken to the Marine Security Department for investigation, KUNA quoted the coastguards' office as saying in a statement. Diplomatic relations between the neighboring Gulf states have remained fraught since Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990-1. ...

Iraq locks down Baghdad before Arab summit

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government has locked down Baghdad ahead of this week's Arab League Summit, throwing up a maze of security checkpoints and roadblocks as it seeks to protect the capital from insurgent attacks. The three-day summit is the first of its kind to be held in Iraq in more than two decades, and a successful meeting would allow Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to show the country is pulling back from years of violence and upheaval months after the last U.S. troops left. ...

Iraq locks down Baghdad before Arab summit

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government has locked down Baghdad ahead of this week's Arab League Summit, throwing up a maze of security checkpoints and roadblocks as it seeks to protect the capital from insurgent attacks. The three-day summit is the first of its kind to be held in Iraq in more than two decades, and a successful meeting would allow Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to show the country is pulling back from years of violence and upheaval months after the last U.S. troops left. ...

French investigators open probe into gunman's brother, suspect he helped plot terrorist acts

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PARIS - Signs mounted Sunday that the brother of a radical Islamist gunman who killed schoolchildren and paratroopers in southern France may have helped prepare the attacks.

Police in CA looking into possibility of hate crime in death of severely beaten Iraqi woman

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EL CAJON, Calif. - A woman from Iraq who was found beaten next to a threatening note saying "go back to your country" has died, and police are investigating the possibility of a hate crime.

Iraqi VP demands inquiry into bodyguard's death

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Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby, left, and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, right, are seen during their meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 25, 2012. Elaraby flew into Baghdad on Sunday and was holding meetings with Iraq's top leaders, including Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, Pool)Iraq's fugitive vice president demanded Sunday that global human rights groups investigate whether one of his bodyguards was tortured to death.


Events show power of individuals to make history

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FILE - Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, right, is captured by police and taken to the police station in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, June 28, 1914, after he assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian-Hungarina throne, and his wife, triggering the clash of alliances that became World War I. The past month exposes the limits of leaders who try to shape the world _ and how unexpected actions by individuals like Princip can influence the course of history. And in the information age, there is more space for individuals who are not in positions of power to make a footprint in history, by design or by accident. (AP Photo, Files)In France a motorcycle gunman throws a presidential campaign into turmoil. In Afghanistan, one U.S. soldier's slaughter of civilians shifts the narrative of the Afghan war more than any policy conceived by the Obama administration.


French open probe into gunman's brother

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An unidentified man with his head covered, believed to be Abdelkader Merah or his companion, sits between masked police officers as they head to the French police's anti-terrorist headquarters in Levallois-Perret, outside Paris, Saturday, March 24, 2012. Merah's brother, Mohamed Merah is blamed for a series of deadly shootings which have shocked France and upended the country's presidential race. Merah, who claimed allegiance to al-Qaida, died in a hail of gunfire Thursday after a dramatic 32-hour-long standoff with law enforcement. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)Signs mounted Sunday that the brother of a radical Islamist gunman who killed schoolchildren and paratroopers in southern France may have helped prepare the attacks.


Syria intervention talk as diplomacy withers

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This image made from amateur video and released by Shaam News Network Saturday, March 24, 2012, purports to show smoke rising after rockets fell in the Khaldiyeh area of Homs, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL. TV OUTA year of sanctions, diplomacy and harsh rhetoric failed to stop Syria's bloody crackdown and oust President Bashar Assad. With frustration running high, Turkey and other countries that have staked moral credibility on ending the violence are increasingly looking at intervention on Syrian soil, a strategy they have so far avoided for lack of international consensus and fears it could widen the conflict.


Plouffe: Romney is 'The Godfather of Our Healthcare Plan'

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White House Adviser David Plouffe defended President Obama's healthcare reform law as it heads to the Supreme Court this week, saying that a decade from now most Americans will embrace it.

Iraq VP demands probe into bodyguard's 'torture'

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Tareq al-Hashemi fled to Kurdistan after he was accused of running death squadsIraq's fugitive vice president on Sunday called for an urgent neutral inquiry into the death of his bodyguard, who was allegedly tortured while in custody.


Insight: Iraq war over? Not where Qaeda rules through fear

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Members of the Iraqi special forces stand guard at a checkpoint in central BaghdadMOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A spruced-up Baghdad is welcoming Arab leaders this week to declare that war is over and Iraq is open for business. To Um Qassim, carrying her shopping beside a rubbish-filled creek four hours drive from the capital, it is a cruel joke. In her home city of Mosul, out of view of visiting dignitaries, al Qaeda still controls the streets and people like her still whisper about death. ...


Beaten Iraqi woman 'dies in California'

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Shaima Alawadi, 32 and a mother of five, died after she had been taken off life supportAn Iraqi woman brutally beaten in her southern California home in an apparently racially-motivated attack has died in hospital, US media reported.


10 things you need to know today: March 25, 2012

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Obama spies North Korea, the U.S. compensates the families of Afghan massacre victims, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion

Sudan's Bashir to attend Arab summit in Baghdad

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Bashir in is wanted for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in DarfurSudanese President Omar al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, will attend this week's Arab summit in Baghdad, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's office said.


Dick Cheney gets heart transplant

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Cheney, 71, has a long history of heart troubleFormer US vice president Dick Cheney was in hospital on Sunday, recovering after a long-awaited and "lifesaving" heart transplant from an unknown donor to whom he will "be forever grateful."


Iraq oil exports, revenues decline in February

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Iraq's oil ministry says oil exports in January have declined by nearly 4.5 percent compared to the previous month.

Iraqi woman attacked in California home dies

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EL CAJON, California (Reuters) - A mother from Iraq who was severely beaten in her southern California home and left with a threatening note nearby died on Saturday, and police are considering a hate crime as a possible motive in the murder investigation. Shaima Alawadi, 32, was found unconscious in the dining room of her home in El Cajon, near San Diego, on Wednesday morning by her 17-year-old daughter, said El Cajon police spokesman Lieutenant Mark Coit. She was taken to a local trauma center with grave injuries. Doctors took her off life support and she died on Saturday afternoon, Coit ...

Iraqi woman attacked in California home dies

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EL CAJON, California (Reuters) - A mother from Iraq who was severely beaten in her southern California home and left with a threatening note nearby died on Saturday, and police are considering a hate crime as a possible motive in the murder investigation. Shaima Alawadi, 32, was found unconscious in the dining room of her home in El Cajon, near San Diego, on Wednesday morning by her 17-year-old daughter, said El Cajon police spokesman Lieutenant Mark Coit. She was taken to a local trauma center with grave injuries. Doctors took her off life support and she died on Saturday afternoon, Coit ...

French police question gunman's 'proud' brother

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Police and prosecutors have described Abdelkader as a more radical Islamist than his brotherThe brother of the French gunman who killed seven people including children in a shooting spree denied involvement in the attacks but said he was proud of his sibling's actions, according to police.


Afghan killing spree suspected to occur in two stages

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Handout photo of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales at Fort IrwinWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army sergeant accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians is believed to have carried out the rampage in two stages, returning to base after the first shootings and then going out to kill again, a U.S. official said on Saturday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, did not offer further details about the investigation into the March 11 shooting spree in southern Afghanistan, which has further eroded U.S.-Afghan relations already frayed by a decade of war. ...


Afghan killing spree suspected to occur in two stages

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army sergeant accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians is believed to have carried out the rampage in two stages, returning to base after the first shootings and then going out to kill again, a U.S. official said on Saturday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, did not offer further details about the investigation into the March 11 shooting spree in southern Afghanistan, which has further eroded U.S.-Afghan relations already frayed by a decade of war. ...

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