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Yahoo! News: Iraq


CA-NEWS Summary

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 03:17 PM PDT

Two policemen shot as new Italy government sworn in ROME (Reuters) - Enrico Letta was sworn in as Italy's new prime minister on Sunday and immediately faced an emergency after an unemployed man shot two police officers outside his office. The 49 year-old gunman, from the poor southern region of Calabria, told investigators he had planned to attack politicians but had found none within range. Lawmakers press Obama to take action on Syria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican senators on Sunday pressed U.S. ...

Lawmakers press Obama to take action on Syria

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 03:06 PM PDT

A Free Syrian Army fighter takes up firing position in the Khan al-Assal area, near AleppoBy Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican senators on Sunday pressed U.S. President Barack Obama to intervene in Syria's civil war, saying America could attack Syrian air bases with missiles but should not send in ground troops. Pressure is mounting on the White House to do more to help Syrian rebels fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, which the Obama administration last week said had probably used chemical arms in the conflict. ...


Iraq suspends Al-Jazeera and 9 Iraqi TV channels

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 12:25 PM PDT

Iraq suspends Al-Jazeera and 9 Iraqi TV channelsIraqi authorities suspended the operating licenses of pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera and nine Iraqi TV channels on Sunday after accusing them of escalating sectarian tension. The move signaled the Shiite-led ...


Pattern seen in alleged chemical arms use in Syria

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 12:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday March 19, 2013 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian victim who suffered an alleged chemical attack at Khan al-Assal village according to SANA, receives treatment by doctors, at a hospital in Aleppo, Syria. The purported instances in which chemical weapons have been used in Syria have been relatively small in scale: nothing along the lines of Saddam Hussein's 1988 attack in Kurdish Iraq. That raises the question of who would stand to gain as President Bashar Assad's regime and the opposition trade blame for the alleged attacks and definitive proof remains elusive. Analysts say the answer could lie in the past the regime has a pattern of gradually introducing a weapon to the conflict to test the international community's response. (AP Photo/SANA, File)BEIRUT (AP) — The instances in which chemical weapons are alleged to have been used in Syria were purportedly small in scale: nothing along the lines of Saddam Hussein's 1988 attack in Kurdish Iraq that killed thousands.


Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 07:25 AM PDT

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, speaks at a news conference as her sister-in-law, Maryam, listens in Makhachkala, in the southern Russian province of Dagestan, Thursday, April 25, 2013. The suspects' father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said Thursday that he is leaving Russia for the United States in the next day or two, but their mother said she was still thinking it over. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.


House Intelligence chair: Syrian weapons worrisome

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 07:18 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Intelligence Committee chairman says Syria's suspected use of chemical weapons against its own people is troubling but adds that he is also worried about those weapons falling into the wrong hands after President Bashar Assad is driven from power.

US-INDUSTRY Summary

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 06:24 AM PDT

Iraq watchdog suspends 10 TV channels for inciting violence BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has suspended the licenses of satellite news network Al Jazeera and nine other channels, accusing them of inciting violence through their coverage of recent sectarian clashes. The Communication and Media Commission (CMC) regulator criticized their reporting of violence triggered by a security forces raid on a Sunni Muslim protest camp in Hawija on Tuesday. Time Warner Cable shifts away from "triple play" (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc, the second-largest U.S. ...

Iraq watchdog suspends 10 TV channels for inciting violence

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 06:24 AM PDT

A security guard walks outside the Al Jazeera building in BaghdadBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has suspended the licenses of satellite news network Al Jazeera and nine other channels, accusing them of inciting violence through their coverage of recent sectarian clashes. The Communication and Media Commission (CMC) regulator criticized their reporting of violence triggered by a security forces raid on a Sunni Muslim protest camp in Hawija on Tuesday. None of the channels was immediately available for comment. ...


Iraq pulls licenses of Al-Jazeera, other channels

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 05:51 AM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center right, Iraqi acting Defense Minister Sadun al-Dulaymi, center left, government officials, and parliament members, attend the funeral procession of five slain soldiers at the headquarters of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 28, 2012. Gunmen killed 10 people in Iraq, including five soldiers near the main Sunni protest camp west of Baghdad on Saturday, the latest in a wave of violence that has raised fears the country faces a new round of sectarian bloodshed. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities announced Sunday that they had revoked the operating licenses of pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera and nine other satellite TV channels, alleging that they are promoting a sectarian agenda as the country grapples with a wave of violence.


Syria's neighbors cautious about U.S.-led intervention

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 05:00 AM PDT

A Free Syrian Army fighter calls on Syrian regime troops to defect in the Khan al-Assal area, near AleppoBy Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syria's neighbors, wary of stirring a conflict that could spill back over their borders, would be reluctant partners in a U.S.-led intervention but are ultimately likely to support limited military action if widespread use of chemical weapons is proven. The White House disclosed U.S. intelligence on Thursday that Syria had likely used chemical weapons, a move President Barack Obama had said could trigger unspecified consequences, widely interpreted to include possible U.S. military action. ...


Iraq pulls Jazeera, other TV licenses amid unrest

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 02:56 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities are suspending the operating licenses of pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera along with nine other satellite channels on allegations they are promoting a sectarian agenda.

10 things you need to know today: April 28, 2013

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 02:55 AM PDT

President Obama tells jokes during the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on April 27.Obama entertains at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, another ricin suspect is arrested, and more in our roundup of stories that are making news and driving opinion


Soccer-Too many 'foreigners' in Australia league - coach Arnold

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 10:02 PM PDT

MELBOURNE, April 28 (Reuters) - Australia's top-flight soccer competition has too many foreign players and their prevalence is hurting the national team, according to title-winning coach Graham Arnold. Arnold, who guided the Central Coast Mariners to their maiden A-League championship last week, said he had prioritised using local players rather than imports in his side and suggested rival teams did the same. "I think all other clubs need to follow suit because it's damaging the national team," Arnold told reporters on Sunday. ...

Today in History

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 09:01 PM PDT

Today is Sunday, April 28, the 118th day of 2013. There are 247 days left in the year.

Have a Seat: This Chair Was Made From Compost (VIDEO)

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 05:38 PM PDT

In this era of recycle, reuse, reduce, the trend in personal goods has obviously been to prevent as much of it as possible from ending up in a landfill. What was once garbage is now the source material for electric appliances, bicycles and even play structures.

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