2013年5月18日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

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Posted: 18 May 2013 04:35 PM PDT

Rome protest turns up heat on new PM Letta ROME (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession. "We hope that this government will finally start listening to us because we are losing our patience," said Enzo Bernardis, who joined the sea of protesters waving red flags and calling for more workers' rights and better contracts. ...

One of the Most Personal Ways to Support Veterans—and It Won’t Cost You a Dime

Posted: 18 May 2013 01:50 PM PDT

May 18 is Armed Forces Day and in honor of that, some cities are staging the usual summer weekend fanfare to mark the occasion—events like parades, softball tournaments and outdoor concerts will be in effect all weekend.

Thirteen killed, 10 police kidnapped in Iraq violence

Posted: 18 May 2013 11:29 AM PDT

Tribal men pose with their weapons as they patrol a road north of RamadiRAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Suspected Sunni Muslim militants killed four state-backed Sunni fighters in Iraq on Saturday, security sources said, apparently viewing them as collaborators with the Shi'ite-led government of a nation plagued by sectarian hatred. Sunni-Shi'ite tensions in Iraq have been amplified by the conflict between mostly Sunni rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite-dominated forces in neighboring Syria. ...

Attacks kill 16 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped

Posted: 18 May 2013 10:20 AM PDT

Iraqis gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 17, 2013. A bomb killed dozens of people at a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, hitting worshippers as they were emerging from Friday prayers, security officials said. The attack in Baqouba comes after two days of attacks, many in Shiite districts, left tens of people dead. Attacks against Sunni mosques have also been on the rise recently, raising fears that the country is slipping into a new round of sectarian violence. (AP Photo/Adem Hadei)BAGHDAD (AP) — A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country.

Gunmen kill 9 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped

Posted: 18 May 2013 08:21 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen killed an anti-terrorism policeman and his family in Baghdad on Saturday, while kidnappers abducted eight policemen guarding a post on Iraq's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country. Attackers also shot dead a Sunni cleric in the Shiite-majority south.

8 police kidnapped in western Iraq

Posted: 18 May 2013 05:41 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Police officials say gunmen have kidnapped eight Iraqi policemen who were guarding a post on the main highway to Jordan and Syria.

U.S. chides Russia over missiles as peace plans suffer

Posted: 18 May 2013 04:50 AM PDT

Free Syrian Army members eat a meal together in one of the streets of Deir el-ZorBy Erika Solomon BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States chided Russia for sending missiles to the Syrian government as plans for a peace conference promoted by Washington and Moscow were hit by diplomatic rifts over its scope and purpose. Sectarian bloodshed in neighboring Iraq during Friday prayers, a hacking attack on a Western newspaper by sympathizers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and defiant comments by a rebel commander filmed eating a slain soldier's flesh were all reminders of how the two-year-old civil war is metastising. ...

Iraq attacks leave 8 dead

Posted: 18 May 2013 03:52 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen killed the entire family of an anti-terrorist policeman in Baghdad and a Sunni cleric in the Shiite-majority south on Saturday, part of a wave of attacks across Iraq that left eight dead, said officials.

Gunmen raid home in Iraq, kill 5 people

Posted: 18 May 2013 02:20 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say gunmen have broken into the house of an anti-terrorism police officer in the southern suburbs of Baghdad, killing five people including him and his sleeping family.

10 things you need to know today: May 18, 2013

Posted: 18 May 2013 01:14 AM PDT

Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill, May 17.An ousted IRS official testifies before Congress, Iraq experiences its deadliest day in eight months, and more

WASHINGTON CIRCUS STEALS SPOTLIGHT FROM WHERE IT BELONGS

Posted: 17 May 2013 10:01 PM PDT

Can President Barack Obama put out the brush fires that are sucking the air out of his second-term agenda? Can he stop the spread of mini-scandals that are consuming Washington?No, he cannot. The president could (unconstitutionally) shutter every Internal Revenue Service office and fire every staffer, from top-ranking executives to lowly administrative aides, and it would hardly matter. Republicans would simply change the terms of the debate and impeach him for destroying the 16th Amendment. ...

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