Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Analysis: Bold Taliban attacks unlikely to alter U.S. Afghan plans
• Obama says more Iran sanctions coming if talks drag
• Party suspends British peer over Obama 'bounty'
• Iraq electoral commission chief released on bail
• Obama to witness land title handover to black Colombians
• Iraq election commission chief released from jail-official
• 2 Iraqi election officials released on bail
• DuPont's armored car kit a hit in Brazil
• Iraq dinar hit by fallout from sanctions next door
• Iraq frees last Saddam WMD scientist
• 5 Socially Conscious Startups Innovating for Good
• Iraq bombing kills three members of same family
• 10 things you need to know today: April 15, 2012

Analysis: Bold Taliban attacks unlikely to alter U.S. Afghan plans Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Almost as soon as Afghan insurgents began their assault on Western targets in Kabul on Sunday, U.S. officials went to great lengths to stress that the bold offensive would do nothing to shake U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. Yet alongside the reasons they stressed - the attacks' limited casualties, and the improving ability of Afghan forces to confront insurgents on their own - stands a fundamental reality: the Obama administration sees no palatable alternative to its current gradual course out of a war that has dragged on at great human and financial cost for over a ...

Obama says more Iran sanctions coming if talks drag Posted: CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said there would be more sanctions imposed on Iran if there is no breakthrough in nuclear talks with global powers in the coming months, responding to Israeli accusations that Tehran has been given a "freebie." At a news conference in Cartagena, Colombia, where he was attending the Summit of the Americas, Obama said negotiations between Iran and six world powers that resumed on Saturday would not stretch on indefinitely and would require Iran to act. "We're going to keep on seeing if we make progress. ...

Party suspends British peer over Obama 'bounty' Posted: Britain's Labour Party on Sunday suspended peer Nazir Ahmed over reports that he offered a £10 million ($15.9 million, 12.1 million euros) bounty for the capture of US President Barack Obama.

Iraq electoral commission chief released on bail Posted: The head of Iraq's electoral commission said after his release on Sunday that his detention on suspicion of corruption was due to just one of many often-frivolous court cases brought against the body.

Obama to witness land title handover to black Colombians Posted: Visiting US President Barack Obama on Sunday was to join his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos at a ceremony here to hand over land titles to descendants of the country's runaway African slaves.

Iraq election commission chief released from jail-official Posted: BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's electoral commission chief and another member were released on bail on Sunday after spending three days in jail on corruption charges, in a case that has stirred political tensions in the country's fragile power-sharing government. Faraj al-Haidari, head of Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), and Karim al-Tamimi were arrested on Thursday on charges they had given illicit bonuses to some IHEC employees, charges they have denied. ...

2 Iraqi election officials released on bail Posted: Two Iraqi election officials facing corruption charges said Sunday they have been released on bail after a three-day detention that they said was designed to pressure the independent electoral body.

DuPont's armored car kit a hit in Brazil Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Would you bulletproof a Kia? If you live in Brazil, the answer could very well be yes - to guard against robbers at stop signs in Sao Paulo or traffic jams in Brasilia. Armor plating isn't just for aristocrats anymore as the world's seventh-largest economy grapples with high rates of kidnapping, murder and robbery. DuPont , widely known as a chemical maker, introduced its bulletproof Kevlar fiber and SentryGlas car kit Armura in 2008 to middle class Brazilian families with Chevrolets, Hondas and yes, even low-cost Kias. ...

Iraq dinar hit by fallout from sanctions next door Posted: BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At Alaa Radhi's currency exchange shop in central Baghdad, a board showing the rate of Iraqi dinars to the dollar has three question marks next to the price. For weeks now, Iraqi businesses say they have been struggling as the dinar has become increasingly volatile due to fallout from sanctions imposed on neighbouring Iran and Syria and to Iraq's own political turmoil. "The price keeps changing so quickly," Radhi says, counting a wad of dinars at the counter of his exchange. "That's why I can't write a fixed price. ...

Iraq frees last Saddam WMD scientist Posted: The last Iraqi scientist implicated in late dictator Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programme is to be released, Deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim told AFP on Sunday.

5 Socially Conscious Startups Innovating for Good Posted: In our new series, The World at Work, Mashable interviews the people behind the startups and projects that are working to make a global impact.

Iraq bombing kills three members of same family Posted: Unknown attackers blew up a house north of the Iraqi capital Sunday, killing three members of a family including a five-year-old boy and also wounding a two-year-old girl, an interior ministry official said.

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