2013年10月5日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


String of attacks in Iraq kills at least 66

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 03:06 PM PDT

Map locates Baghdad and other sites of violence across Iraq; 1c x 4 inches; 46.5 mm x 101 mm;BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of Shiite pilgrims passing through a mainly Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad and another detonated his explosives inside a cafe north of the capital, the deadliest of several attacks across Iraq on Saturday that killed at least 66 people.


Iraq violence kills 73 including pilgrims, journalists

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 02:28 PM PDT

Smoke rises from buildings in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk following a car bomb attack on October 2, 2013Baghdad (AFP) - Violence including an attack on Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad killed at least 73 people across Iraq on Saturday, among them two journalists gunned down in the north, officials said.


String of attacks in Iraq kill at least 66

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 02:21 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad and another detonated his explosives inside a cafe north of the capital, the deadliest of several attacks across Iraq on Saturday that killed at least 66 people.

Suicide bombers target Iraq Shi'ites, killing 60

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 02:10 PM PDT

By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers targeted Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq on Saturday, killing 60 people on the eve of the anniversary of one of their imams' deaths, police and medics said on Saturday. In the northern city of Mosul, unidentified gunmen shot two Iraqi television journalists dead as they were filming, security sources said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for either of the bombings, but such attacks are the hallmark of Sunni Islamist al Qaeda, which views Shi'ites as non-believers and has been regaining momentum this year. ...

Agreement ends shelling of Syrian village

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 12:39 PM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces reached an agreement Saturday with local officials of a vulnerable Sunni village in a region dominated by President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect to end hours of deadly shelling in exchange for the surrender of dozens of opposition fighters, an activist group said.

String of attacks in Iraq kill nearly 50 people

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 12:28 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad and another detonated his explosives inside a cafe north of the capital, the deadliest of several attacks across Iraq on Saturday that killed at least 48 people.

Evening bomb blasts in Iraq push death toll to 41

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 11:49 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's interior ministry spokesman says a suicide bomber has blown himself up among Shiite pilgrims in northern Baghdad, the deadliest in a series of attacks that have killed 41 people.

Suicide bomber strikes cafe in Iraq, killing 13

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 11:07 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — The mayor of a largely Shiite town north of Baghdad says a suicide bomber has blown himself up inside a cafe there, killing at least 13 in the latest lethal attack to strike Iraq.

Obama to public: Don't give up on health sign-ups

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 08:46 AM PDT

In this photo taken Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, President Barack Obama poses for a photo prior to an exclusive interview with The Associated Press in the White House library in Washington four days into a partial shutdown of the government. Obama, who successfully ran for president as a first-term senator, spoke critically about first-term Republican senators, such as Ted Cruz of Texas, who have been leading efforts to shut the government if Republicans can't extract concessions from the White House. He said that when he was in the Senate, he "didn't go around courting the media. And I certainly didn't go around trying to shut down the government." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending the shaky rollout of his health care law, President Barack Obama said frustrated Americans "definitely shouldn't give up" on the problem-plagued program now at the heart of his dispute with Republicans over reopening the federal government.


Journalists, anti-Qaida fighters killed in Iraq

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 08:08 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Two television journalists were shot dead and three anti-extremist militiamen were killed in a bomb blast on Saturday in the latest attacks to strike Iraq.

Arab world searches for democratic future

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 07:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 file photo, a trampled poster of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi is seen on the ground outside the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where supporters of Morsi had a protest camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. Arabic reads, "Yes for the legitimacy." Almost a quarter-century ago, a young American political scientist achieved global academic celebrity by proclaiming that the collapse of communism had ended the discussion on how to run societies, leaving "Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." In Egypt and around the Middle East, after a summer of violence and upheaval, the discussion, however, is still going strong. And almost three years into the Arab Spring revolts, profound uncertainties remain. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)CAIRO (AP) — "For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability... We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations." — President George W. Bush in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Sept. 21, 2004


Qaeda in Syria bids to control Iraq, Turkey borders

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 07:22 AM PDT

Abu Mohammad al-Adnani al-Shami, spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, at an undisclosed locationBeirut (AFP) - Al-Qaeda in Syria is fighting to drive rivals out of areas bordering Turkey and Iraq in a bid to control territory stretching from Iraq into northern Syria, various sources say.


Two Iraqi TV reporters killed in Mosul

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 06:17 AM PDT

An image grab from Iraq's Sharqiya channel shows file pictures of correspondent Mohammed Karim (left) and his cameraman Mohammed GhanemMosul (Iraq) (AFP) - Two journalists with Iraq's Sharqiya television were "assassinated" in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, the channel said.


Analysis: US reliability questioned overseas

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 05:36 AM PDT

A Muslim protester holds a banner featuring a photo of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest against the visit of Obama or Secretary of State John Kerry, scheduled for Oct. 11, outside the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. Obama is canceling a trip to Asia to stay in Washington and push for an elusive funding bill to get the nation's business back up and running. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)An unmistakable sense of unease is growing in global capitals as the U.S. government from afar looks increasingly befuddled. America is shirking from a military confrontation in Syria, stymied at home by a gridlocked Congress and in danger of defaulting on sovereign debt, which could plunge the world's financial system into chaos.


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