2012年5月20日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Thousands march through Chicago to NATO summit

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Demonstrators flow out of Grant Park in Chicago during this weekend's NATO summit Sunday, May 20, 2012 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Chicago on Sunday in one of the city's largest demonstrations in years, airing grievances about war, climate change and a wide range of other complaints as world leaders assembled for a NATO summit.


'Avengers' solidly on top in North American cinemas

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Film fans take photographs during the Marvel Avengers Assemble European Premiere"The Avengers" kept packing its amazing box-office punch, industry data showed Sunday, breaking records and powering its way on the top at North American box offices for a third week.


Thousands protest in Chicago as NATO summit opens

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Protesters holding an American flag march over a bridge during an anti-NATO protest march in ChicagoCHICAGO (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters carried their anti-war message to world leaders at a NATO summit on a steamy Sunday, in a mostly peaceful march led by a group of Iraq War veterans who symbolically gave back their military medals. During the march, a group of black-clad demonstrators darted toward police lines along the route, and some threw water bottles at officers who pushed back and yelled at them to move along, but there were no major incidents. ...


Media says Obama evolved, not flip-flopped, on major issues through the years

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President Barack Obama has evolved — again. And again. And again.

Lawyers for fugitive Iraq VP withdraw from case

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Tareq al-Hashemi is pictured on May 4Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi's defence team walked out of his trial Sunday after a judge refused to accept their evidence, as witnesses testified he gave them money to kill Iraqi soldiers and policemen.


Ex-TV Anchor: Obama 'Condescending to Women'

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President Obama's recent outreach to women voters has won him strong support in polls, but former CNN and NBC anchor Campbell Brown says in an op-ed column published Sunday that the effort "so far has seemed maddeningly off point."

Lawyers for fugitive Iraqi VP quit case in protest

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Iraq's vice president Tariq al-Hashemi arrives to speak to the the Associated Press in Istanbul, Turkey, late Thursday, May 17, 2012. Al-Hashemi says former bodyguards who are testifying against him in a terror trial in Baghdad might have been drugged or blackmailed. The trial in absentia of Tariq al-Hashemi, who is in Turkey, started this week when agents who used to protect him said they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs. Interpol has issued a so-called Lawyers for Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president charged with running death squads quit the case on Sunday in protest after judges rejected their request for evidence for his defense.


Iran MPs urge respect of 'rights' in nuclear talks

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MPs called on UN Security Council members to seek A majority of Iranian lawmakers on Sunday urged world powers to respect Iran's "rights" in crucial talks next week in Baghdad over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme.


Iraqi Kurdistan to push ahead with oil export plan

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ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region said on Sunday it expects to start exporting its crude oil along a new pipeline to the Turkish border by August 2013, defying Baghdad in a long-running dispute over who controls the country's oil sales. The Kurdistan region, which has its own government and armed forces, has already clashed with Iraq's central government over autonomy and oil rights, and halted its crude exports in April after accusing Baghdad of not making due payments. ...

NATO’s Paper Mache Agenda for Afghanistan

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The Afghanistan-related measures NATO members are expected to adopt in Chicago are a mix of concrete international agreements and paper promises that European capitals may or may not uphold.

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