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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Analysis: Akin row shows GOP's social-fiscal rift

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:49 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann leave the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after church service on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, in Wolfeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Every now and then, an event awakens the ever-slumbering tensions between the Republican Party's two core wings: social conservatives and corporate interests.


Every 4 years, something more than just politics

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:45 PM PDT

Romney-Ryan campaign sign is displayed inside of the Tampa Bay Times Forum at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)So much can change in four years.


Clinton's planned Pacific trip 'sends message to China'

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 01:26 PM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, pictured on August 11, is set to make a rare foray to the South Pacific this weekUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to make a rare foray to the South Pacific this week, in a move analysts say is aimed at curbing China's growing influence among the region's small island nations.


Dead Japanese reporter had nine bullet wounds: police

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:52 PM PDT

The body of Mika Yamamoto arrives at Narita airport near Tokyo on August 25A veteran Japanese war reporter killed while covering the anti-regime movement in Syria suffered nine bullet wounds with the fatal injury sustained in the neck, police said Sunday after an autopsy.


Iraqi officials: Series of attacks kill 8 people

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 09:29 AM PDT

Attacks by insurgents killed eight police and soldiers in Iraq Sunday, police said, the latest onslaught meant to undermine the Baghdad government.

Iraq attacks kill 10 people

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 08:17 AM PDT

Today's attacks took to 256 the number of people killed in Iraq so far this month, accolrding to an AFP tallyA series of attacks in and around Baghdad and in north Iraq on Sunday killed 10 people, including three soldiers and two policemen, security and medical officials said.


Iraq seeks to curb frontier spillover from Syria crisis

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 07:59 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's military is trying to staunch spillover from Syria's crisis, tightening border controls as its troops exchange fire with gunmen, rockets hit a frontier patrol and Syrian army shells land on an Iraqi border town. Iraq's army last week took over frontier operations. A border crossing to Syria's Albu Kamal is temporarily closed as Syrian forces backed by aircraft and rebels fight to control the town, which sits on key supply routes from Iraq. Spillover from Syria worries an Iraqi government struggling to overcome its own insurgency and legacy of sectarian violence. ...

Exclusive: Iraq pipeline delays threaten Shell's Majnoon

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 06:40 AM PDT

Snow covered Shell logo is seen at a petrol station in IstanbulBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Delays in Iraq's pipeline construction threaten to stall production at Royal Dutch Shell's Majnoon oilfield for at least three months, forcing the field to miss a 2012 target of 175,000 barrels per day, oil ministry documents showed. Wary of losses, Shell has asked Iraq for a waiver to start recovering costs if Majnoon does not meet its first commercial production target by year-end - a contract requirement before costs can be retrieved, according to documents seen by Reuters. Shell's troubles illustrate infrastructure hurdles facing oil operators in the OPEC nation. ...


NATO says combat operations unaffected by pullout logistics

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 05:33 AM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - A senior U.S. logistics commander rejected accusations on Sunday from frontline combat troops that the complicated rollback from bases across Afghanistan and packing up of military equipment was disrupting NATO-led operations against insurgents. U.S. Brigadier-General Steven Shapiro said around 400 bases had been successfully closed or handed to Afghan security forces from a high of around 800 last October as part of a withdrawal of foreign troops from combat operations winding up in 2014. ...

AP Interview Transcript With President Obama

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:03 AM PDT

AP interview transcript with President Obama

Australia reopens probe of 1982 anti-Israel bombings

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:23 AM PDT

Police reopened the case after a review of the bombings reportedly led them to convicted extremist Mohammed RashedAustralian police Sunday reopened inquiries into the 1982 bombing of the Israeli consulate in Sydney and a Jewish club, reportedly after interviewing an extremist jailed over a blast on a Pan Am flight that year.


Today in History

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 09:00 PM PDT

Today is Sunday, Aug. 26, the 239th day of 2012. There are 127 days left in the year.

Car runs down NH memorial ride cyclists, killing 2

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 05:43 PM PDT

Police say an 87-year-old driver crossed the center lane of traffic and struck a bevy of motorcyclists participating in a New Hampshire memorial ride, killing two of them. Six other people were hurt.

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