2012年5月27日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Blair faces grilling over ties to Murdoch

Posted: 27 May 2012 04:34 PM PDT

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives for Queen Elizabeth's address to both Houses of Parliament at Westminster Hall in LondonLONDON (Reuters) - Tony Blair's decision to openly court Rupert Murdoch to win power and ensure favourable coverage during his decade-long tenure as British prime minister will come under scrutiny when he faces a media inquiry on Monday. The inquiry, ordered by Prime Minister David Cameron after Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid admitted hacking phones, has tarnished Britain's elite by laying bare the collusion between politicians, the police and the media. ...


Britain's Blair faces grilling over ties to Murdoch

Posted: 27 May 2012 04:07 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Tony Blair's decision to openly court Rupert Murdoch to win power and ensure favorable coverage during his decade-long tenure as British prime minister will come under scrutiny when he faces a media inquiry on Monday. The inquiry, ordered by Prime Minister David Cameron after Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid admitted hacking phones, has tarnished Britain's elite by laying bare the collusion between politicians, the police and the media. ...

Disability Claims a Huge Cost of War that Must Be Paid

Posted: 27 May 2012 02:33 PM PDT

COMMENTARY | It's a cost that probably wasn't figured when the wars began. And it's a cost America must now pay, regardless of how staggering. According to the Associated Press, 45 percent of the veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are seeking disability compensation from service-related physical and mental injuries.

USS Iowa Makes Final Journey

Posted: 27 May 2012 02:12 PM PDT

The USS Iowa (BB-61) is making it final journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The huge battleship, known as the "Battleship of Presidents" will make the four-day trip in order to become a museum in southern California, according to Reuters. The storied vessel has been decommissioned for over 20 years and will finally be open for the public as an appropriate naval museum honoring U.S. Navy sailors since World War II.

UAE eyes June opening for pipeline bypassing Hormuz

Posted: 27 May 2012 01:15 PM PDT

Fujairah's ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al-SharqiA pipeline being built by the United Arab Emirates to pump most of its oil exports from east coast terminals bypassing the Iran-threatened Strait of Hormuz, will be operational in June, the ruler of Fujairah told AFP in an interview.


Gay students graduate openly at military academies

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:57 AM PDT

In this Saturday, May 26, 2012 photo, Kaitlyn Kelly, center, reacts after a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. At West Point, the alumni gay advocacy group Knights Out was able to hold the first installment in March of what is intended to be an annual dinner in recognition of gay and lesbian graduates and cadets. Kelly was among the dozens of cadets who attended the privately sponsored dinner. The 22-year-old Chicago resident was finally able to openly introduce her civilian girlfriend at an event marking 100 days before graduation. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)Gay students at America's military service academies are wrapping up the first year when they no longer had to hide their sexual orientation, benefiting from the end of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that used to bar them from seemingly ordinary activities like taking their partners openly to graduation events.


19 Pakistani pilgrims wounded in Iraq bombing

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:43 AM PDT

Shiite Muslims gather at the shrine Hassen al-AskariA roadside bomb in Iraq's Anbar province wounded 19 Pakistani Shiite pilgrims on Sunday, police and a doctor said, in the second attack against pilgrims in the Sunni province in days.


Millions in global aid for Iraq sits unspent

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:25 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, a student passes by an abandoned school foundation, unfinished since 2006, in central Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Millions of dollars in international aid to build and repair Iraq's dilapidated schools have for years gone unspent. Now, Iraq's government risks losing the funding as the World Bank weighs whether some of it would be better used in some of the poorest nations around the globe. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)Outside the crumbling elementary school, goats feed on trash strewn across the front yard. Inside, the ceiling is rotting, toilets don't work and students scrunch hip-to-hip behind narrow desks.


Kellie Pickler Joins USO in Honoring Our Nation’s Real Heroes on Week-Long Memorial Day Tour to Middle East

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:02 AM PDT

BNA Recording artist Kellie Pickler joins the USO in honoring our nations real heroes with a week-long Memorial Day USO tour to the Middle East. Paying homage to those who have fallen as well as those currently serving on the front lines, Pickler is spending a week visiting two countries and performing five shows. On Memorial Day, she will dine with troops and perform two USO shows. This trip marks the fifth USO tour for Pickler. ...

AP IMPACT: Almost half of new vets seek disability

Posted: 27 May 2012 10:41 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 7, 2012 file photo, Army Pfc. Kevin Trimble, 19, adjusts his myoelectric upper limb prosthetic for occupational therapy at the Center for the Intrepid at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. At 19, Kevin has lost both legs above the knee and an arm from a bomb in Afghanistan. A staggering 45 percent of the 1.6 million veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now seeking compensation for disabilities they say are service-related - more than double the 21 percent who filed such claims after some previous wars, according to top government officials. The new veterans have different types of injuries than previous veterans did, in part because improvised bombs have been the main weapon and because body armor and improved battlefield care allowed many of them to survive wounds that in past wars proved fatal. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Lisa Krantz, File) RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDITAmerica's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation of former troops the nation has ever seen.


AP IMPACT: Nearly half of new US veterans seek disability claims; weak economy may play a role

Posted: 27 May 2012 10:20 AM PDT

America's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate. Government officials say that 45 per cent of the 1.6 million veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now seeking compensation for injuries they say are service-related. Officials tell The Associated Press that's more than double the estimated 21 per cent who filed such claims after the earlier Gulf War in the 1990s.

Jake Tapper: My Memorial Day Message

Posted: 27 May 2012 09:34 AM PDT

I hope you have a very meaningful Memorial Day. And a personal note – getting to know troops and their families these past two years while working on a book project, has left an indelible impression of the world of service and sacrifice made by...

Turkish soldier killed in clash with rebels

Posted: 27 May 2012 06:58 AM PDT

State-run television says Kurdish rebels have killed a soldier in a clash in southeast Turkey, prompting the military to launch a large-scale offensive in the area.

Iran to launch new nuclear plant project: state TV

Posted: 27 May 2012 06:12 AM PDT

The reactor at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, seen in 2010Iran is to build a new nuclear power plant, alongside its sole existing one in the southern city of Bushehr, by early 2014, state television reported on Sunday, quoting the head of the country's Atomic Energy Organisation.


Activists: Veterans Vote is a 'Jump Ball'

Posted: 27 May 2012 03:40 AM PDT

Prominent military veterans agreed on Sunday that the veteran's vote is up for grabs this November, a year in which veterans could be pivotal for a win.

Final voyage: USS Iowa on way to S. Calif. home

Posted: 27 May 2012 01:29 AM PDT

A famed battleship that saw action during World War II and the Korean War and carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a wartime summit traveled along the California coast Sunday on its final voyage.

USS Iowa on way to new home in Southern California

Posted: 26 May 2012 09:17 PM PDT

The USS Iowa — the iconic World War II-era battleship that once served as transport to President Franklin D. Roosevelt — left San Francisco Bay on Saturday on its way to its new home in Southern California.

Memorial Day: Among post-9/11 veterans, deepening antiwar sentiment

Posted: 26 May 2012 01:09 PM PDT

Despite the end of the Iraq war and the scheduled drawdown in Afghanistan, this Memorial Day arrives against a backdrop of deepening – and some say more troublesome – antiwar sentiment among military veterans.

0 条评论:

发表评论

订阅 博文评论 [Atom]

<< 主页

bnzv