Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Union Pacific: Others responsible for fatal crash
• RICH HISTORY LIES BURIED IN SAUDI SANDS
• Spoiler Alert: In Field of Political Films, Hollywood Opts for Happy Ending
• Hamid Karzai is mad as heck and he isn't going to take it anymore
• Syria says ready to talk with armed opposition
• Listen up ladies! Uncle Sam might want you too
• Physical Gold Shortage Possible in the Near Future, Reports Gold Price
• War is hell on veterans' job prospects: Fed paper
• Iran's negotiator - rigid ideologue close to Khamenei
• First Person: Forever Changed After Service in Iraq
• Beyond 'Zero Dark Thirty' Oscars fail: Torture is an ineffective interrogation approach
• Iraq, Kuwait to resume flights after 22-year halt
• Iraq says Turkey rejects Kurd export pipelines
• Playstation 4 Games Warn of PS-Style Surveillance
• Return of sectarian threats in Iraq raises alarm
• Kurdish militant leader to call ceasefire next month: reports
• Department of Defense Mass Notification Vendor Desktop Alert Releases School Panic Button Product Line
• Iraq War Veteran Creates Controversial Job Portal Mister Headhunter
• All Essential Middle Eastern Energy Statistics pulled Together into One Database

Union Pacific: Others responsible for fatal crash Posted: 25 Feb 2013 04:32 PM PST DALLAS (AP) — If lawsuits stemming from last year's train collision that killed four veterans on a parade float in Texas make it to trial, jurors should be able to consider whether actions by parade organizers and the hosting city contributed to the crash, a Union Pacific spokeswoman said Monday.

RICH HISTORY LIES BURIED IN SAUDI SANDS Posted: 25 Feb 2013 03:03 PM PST WASHINGTON -- When anyone with even minimal curiosity peruses the maps of the Middle East, one of the first things to assault his senses is the immense deserts that begin and seemingly never end from Tunisia and Egypt to nearly Yemen and Oman. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is ALL desert, including the magnificent but deadly sand hills blown into unimaginable forms in the wasteland that's appropriately called the "Empty Quarter. ...

Spoiler Alert: In Field of Political Films, Hollywood Opts for Happy Ending Posted: 25 Feb 2013 01:29 PM PST Analysis Michelle Obama's surprise appearance via satellite from the White House to give the Oscar for Best Picture was perfectly fitting: Hollywood was choosing among three front-runners that portrayed very different views of U.S. presidents and history – high drama, gritty suspense and a stylish...

Hamid Karzai is mad as heck and he isn't going to take it anymore Posted: 25 Feb 2013 12:26 PM PST Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been on a roll recently in attacking the professionalism and ability of the US military – the people most responsible for his run as Afghanistan's leader.

Syria says ready to talk with armed opposition Posted: 25 Feb 2013 12:21 PM PST MOSCOW (Reuters) - Syria is ready for talks with its armed opponents, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Monday, in the clearest offer yet to negotiate with rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad. But Moualem said at the same time Syria would pursue its fight "against terrorism", alluding to the conflict in which the United Nations says 70,000 people have been killed. His offer of talks drew a dismissive response from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who was starting a nine-nation tour of European and Arab capitals in London. ...

Listen up ladies! Uncle Sam might want you too Posted: 25 Feb 2013 12:14 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Tennnnnn-hut, ladies! The next time Uncle Sam comes calling, he's probably going to want you, too.

Physical Gold Shortage Possible in the Near Future, Reports Gold Price Posted: 25 Feb 2013 11:58 AM PST The financial crisis in the West has central banks buying up large amounts of gold to hedge against devaluing reserve currencies, a practice that could effect a shortage in the global gold supply, reports Gold Price.New York, NY (PRWEB) February 25, 2013 In response to the economic stimulus programs employed by the world's most powerful governments, central banks in many developing countries are transferring their holdings into gold, as the metal is considered a more tangible asset than reserve currencies that are being devalued in the ongoing currency war. ...

War is hell on veterans' job prospects: Fed paper Posted: 25 Feb 2013 10:11 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Military veterans who have been deployed overseas for prolonged periods struggle to find work because of the traumas of war, as well as training that does not readily translate into the civilian world, according to research by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. High joblessness could not be explained by the business cycle and by demographic differences between new veterans and civilians, two Fed economists said in a paper published on Monday. ...

Iran's negotiator - rigid ideologue close to Khamenei Posted: 25 Feb 2013 09:33 AM PST DUBAI (Reuters) - If there is a path to compromise in nuclear talks between the big powers and Iran, it leads past Saeed Jalili, a man who bears the physical scars of Iran's battles to assert itself and its Islamic revolution against outsiders. For five years, Jalili has been Iran's top nuclear negotiator, relentlessly asserting what Iran says is its sovereign right to peaceful nuclear power. In those five years, U.N. sanctions over activities that could lead Iran to nuclear weapons have been tightened three times, and several attempts to resolve the dispute have failed. ...

First Person: Forever Changed After Service in Iraq Posted: 25 Feb 2013 08:17 AM PST As we near the 10-year anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, Yahoo News asked U.S. servicemen and women who served to share their perspectives and discuss how it changed them. Here's one story.

Beyond 'Zero Dark Thirty' Oscars fail: Torture is an ineffective interrogation approach Posted: 25 Feb 2013 07:44 AM PST The film "Zero Dark Thirty," a fictionalized account of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, has refueled the debate about the efficacy of harsh interrogation techniques. After facing harsh criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, the film, which was nominated for five Academy Awards, had a poor showing at the Oscars last night as well, winning only the award for Best Sound Editing in a rare tie with the James Bond film "Skyfall."

Iraq, Kuwait to resume flights after 22-year halt Posted: 25 Feb 2013 07:13 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's Transportation Ministry says that country's airline will resume commercial flights to Kuwait for the first time since Saddam Hussein's forces invaded the Gulf nation in 1990.

Iraq says Turkey rejects Kurd export pipelines Posted: 25 Feb 2013 05:58 AM PST BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Turkey has told Iraq it will reject any extension of oil and gas pipelines from Kurdistan without the approval of the Baghdad government, Iraq's oil minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi was quoted as saying by the state media network on Monday. Iraq's Arab-led central government and the Kurdistan regional government (KRG), run by ethnic Kurds, are in a long-running dispute over how to exploit the country's crude reserves and divide the revenues. ...

Playstation 4 Games Warn of PS-Style Surveillance Posted: 25 Feb 2013 05:54 AM PST The debut of the PlayStation 4 in New York City Wednesday (Feb. 20) was as remarkable for what it showed as for what it didn't show: Sony unveiled a raft of beautiful, incredibly realistic new games, but not the console itself. The device, perhaps in a straight-from-the-lab rough appearance, was somewhere offstage, driving the giant projectors that broadcast previews of upcoming games around the Hammerstein Ballroom.

Return of sectarian threats in Iraq raises alarm Posted: 25 Feb 2013 05:50 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — The fliers began turning up at Sunni households in the Iraqi capital's Jihad neighborhood last week bearing a chilling message: Get out now or face "great agony" soon.

Kurdish militant leader to call ceasefire next month: reports Posted: 25 Feb 2013 04:38 AM PST ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan will call a ceasefire at the Kurdish New Year next month, moving forward a peace process with Turkey aimed at ending his group's 28-year-old insurgency, media reports said on Monday. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said a planned withdrawal of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants from Turkey after a ceasefire was established would begin the process of ending a conflict which has killed more than 40,000 people. ...

Department of Defense Mass Notification Vendor Desktop Alert Releases School Panic Button Product Line Posted: 25 Feb 2013 12:32 AM PST Affordable Panic Button Technology for Schools - Hosted Notification System Eliminates Costly Activation Logistics - System Arms Teachers with Instant 911 CallsChatham, New Jersey (PRWEB) February 25, 2013 Desktop Alert Inc., a Homeland Security award winning New Jersey based mass notification company selected by FEMA, the National Guard (NGB), the Air National Guard (ANG), NORAD, U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and numerous other U.S. ...

Iraq War Veteran Creates Controversial Job Portal Mister Headhunter Posted: 25 Feb 2013 12:20 AM PST Salary negotiations will never be the same againHackensack, New Jersey (PRWEB) February 25, 2013 Anyone that has ever searched for a job knows how uncomfortable it is to get to the bottom of a cover letter and write about salary expectations. As soon as the job seeker decides to play this different version of the Price is Right game, the chance of getting the job with a good salary package is gone.Entering into a working agreement between an employer and an employee should be equally beneficial to both parties; it should be balanced and fair to all. ...

All Essential Middle Eastern Energy Statistics pulled Together into One Database Posted: 25 Feb 2013 12:18 AM PST Energy analysts at NRG Expert have been taking an in-depth look into energy in the Middle East. They have sourced all the essential Middle Eastern energy data and put it all together in one place, in the NRG Expert Global Energy Almanac.n, Bahrain, Cyprus, Dubai, Egypt , Iran , Iraq, Israel, Jordan (PRWEB UK) 25 February 2013 Middle East, Afghanista For anyone working in the energy industry, the Middle East is an important region to understand. It has the largest share of proven oil reserves and according to the International Energy Agency* produces 12.9 per cent of the world's crude ...

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