2012年7月9日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Women for Women International Supports Women of South Sudan on Country’s First Anniversary

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 01:52 PM PDT

Organization announces campaign to raise awareness about challenges women in South Sudan continue to face.Washington, DC (PRWEB) July 09, 2012 Women for Women International (WfWI) recognizes the one-year anniversary since South Sudan declared independence from Sudan. As the world's newest country marks this historic milestone, WfWI is deeply concerned by the cross-border conflict with Sudan, an ongoing food crisis, and inter-communal violence, and calls for women to be included in all efforts to address these challenges. ...

Iraq gun and bomb attacks kill three

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 11:59 AM PDT

Armed Sahwa or "Awakening" militiamen, former Sunni rebels who have turned against Al-Qaeda, in Samarra in 2010Gun and bomb attacks north of Baghdad on Monday killed three people including two anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen, security and medical officials said.


Al-Qaida claims 40 deadly attacks in Iraq

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 10:59 AM PDT

Militants linked to al-Qaida have claimed responsibility for 40 deadly attacks in Iraq during the month of June.

Vet uses music to heal -- but says he's no 'hero'

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 07:14 AM PDT

In this Thursday, June 7, 2012 photo, Jason Moon, right, a veteran and singer-songwriter, gets a hug from Claudia Zuniga after his concert in Glendale, Calif. When Moon, who served in the Army in the Iraq War, plays his service-inspired music at concerts around the country, he sings of "things I've seen I won't forget," about sacrifices that many warriors bear. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Don't call Iraq War vet Jason Moon a hero. Don't phone him on Memorial Day or July 4th or Veterans Day to say thank you.


Nathan Osmond's "Stars & Stripes" Tugs At Heart Strings Of Americans-Supports Troops and Their Families.

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 07:03 AM PDT

Sponsored by Annin Flagmakers, making the U.S. flag since 1847, who provided flags as backdrop for video. Participating with this video was another small way for Annin to support our troops.Roseland, NJ (PRWEB) July 09, 2012 The Salt Flats of Utah were used to portray the deserts of Afghanistan as they served as the backdrop in Nathan Osmond's new patriotic Country music video,"Stars & Stripes". The scene was set among a small field of American Flags provided by Annin Flagmakers to wrap the singer in his words. ...

Clinton urges free markets with democracy in Asia

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 06:03 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers opening remarks to the Community of Democracies Governing Council at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Monday, July 9, 2012 in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton took aim Monday at China's model of economic growth without democracy, arguing that it undermines long-term prospects and urging other Asian countries to expand markets and political freedom at the same time.


New Armageddon Bio-Warfare Thriller Now Available

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT

Paul McKellips' second novel, Jericho 3, takes readers deep into the trenches of today's Middle East conflict, with a foreword by Ambassador John Bolton

Officials: Feared al-Qaida offshoot neutralized

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 02:40 AM PDT

This May 8, 2012 photo shows the bridge over the Takhoukht reservoir in Algeria's rugged Kabylie region where police and al-Qaida militants recently engage in a shootout killing six extremists. Six years after joining the Osama bin Laden franchise, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb — known by its acronym AQIM — appears to have been neutralized in the nation where it originated and made its name, officials and experts say, corralled into a remote mountain area and reduced to occasional pinprick shootings against soldiers. (AP Photo/Paul Schemm).It's being hailed as a key success in the fight against al-Qaida: a determined Algerian clampdown that has pulled the teeth from one of the terror network's deadliest offshoots and could be a model for elsewhere.


Analysis: Syria crisis shows limits of rising Turkish power

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 01:08 AM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan and Chief of Staff General Ozel attend funeral ceremony of fallen Air Force Lieutenant AksoyANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's bark seems worse than its bite. Ask the Syrians, who shot down a Turkish reconnaissance jet on June 22 and got away with it. Turkish leaders shrilled up their rhetoric. They sent anti-aircraft missiles to the border and repeatedly scrambled F-16 fighters when Syrian helicopters flew too close. Ankara won supportive noises from its NATO allies. But that was it. Ask the Israelis, who killed nine pro-Palestinian Turkish activists on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara aid ship in 2010, and got away with it. ...


Officials: Long-feared al-Qaida offshoot largely neutralized in country where it made its name

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 11:27 PM PDT

TIZI OUZOU, Algeria - It's being hailed as a key success in the fight against al-Qaida: a determined Algerian clampdown that has pulled the teeth from one of the terror network's deadliest offshoots and could be a model for elsewhere.

Brent rises toward $99 on Norway supply cut, China data

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 11:05 PM PDT

An engineer conducts routine checks on oil tanks at a refinery in WuhanSINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brent crude climbed toward $99 a barrel on Monday as failed labour talks in Norway stoked worries of a total output shutdown, while hopes that China would ease monetary policy and improve fuel demand also supported prices. Data from top energy user China showed annual consumer inflation cooling further in June, leaving room for Beijing to ease policy without stoking upward price pressures and helping most commodities recover from steep losses triggered by bleak U.S. jobs data in the previous session. ...


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