2013年5月26日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq officials says separate attacks kill 14

Posted: 26 May 2013 11:05 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — A string of attacks killed at least 14 people in Iraq on Sunday, officials said, in the latest violence of what has been a particularly bloody month in the country.

Retired General John Allen Recalls Toll of Petraeus-linked Investigation

Posted: 26 May 2013 10:06 AM PDT

Retired General John Allen Recalls Toll of Petraeus-linked InvestigationIn an exclusive interview with ABC News' Martha Raddatz on "This Week", retired Gen. John Allen discussed the toll the Pentagon investigation into emails he exchanged with a Tampa socialite took on him and his wife, Kathy – who was suffering from auto-immune health issues....


Iraq officials says separate attacks kill 12

Posted: 26 May 2013 09:01 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — A string of attacks killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Sunday, officials said, in the latest violence of what has been a particularly bloody month in the country.

Iraq officials says separate attacks kill 11

Posted: 26 May 2013 08:09 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen and other attackers killed at least 11 people and wounded more than two dozen in separate attacks in Iraq on Sunday, officials said.

Suspected killer of British soldier was held in Kenya

Posted: 26 May 2013 07:57 AM PDT

By Peter Griffiths and Drazen Jorgic LONDON/NAIROBI (Reuters) - One of two men arrested over the murder of a British soldier in a London street was detained in Kenya in 2010 on suspicion of seeking to train with an al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, Kenyan police said on Sunday. Confirmation that Michael Adebolajo was held in Kenya and deported to London will intensify calls for Britain's spy agencies to explain what they knew about the suspect and whether they could have done more to prevent Lee Rigby's killing on Wednesday. ...

2 rockets hit Lebanese Hezbollah stronghold

Posted: 26 May 2013 06:52 AM PDT

A Lebanese man looks at a part of a rocket, seen on the ground, which struck a car exhibit, near a damaged car at the Mar Mikhael district south of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday May 26, 2013. Rockets slammed Sunday into two Beirut neighborhoods that are strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, wounding at least 4 people, Lebanese security officials and media said. Tensions have been running high in Lebanon, and Syrian rebels have threatened to retaliate against the militant Shiite Hezbollah group for sending fighters to assist President Bashar Assad's forces in Syria. (AP Photo/Ahmad Omar)BEIRUT (AP) — A pair of rockets slammed into a car dealership and a residential building in strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group in Beirut on Sunday, wounding four people in a new sign that Syria's civil war is increasingly rattling its fragile neighbor.


Native American vets push for recognition

Posted: 26 May 2013 06:46 AM PDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Navajo Code Talkers are legendary. Then there was Cpl. Ira Hamilton Hayes, the Pima Indian who became a symbol of courage and patriotism when he and his fellow Marines raised the flag over Iwo Jima in 1945.

Insight: Nigeria's 'war on terror' wins tentative support

Posted: 26 May 2013 03:16 AM PDT

Nigeria's President Jonathan speaks during an interview with ThomsonReuters in New YorkBy Joe Brock MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nuradin Mohammed used to resent and fear the troops who swept past his fish stall in this northeast Nigerian city on the trail of Islamist insurgents Boko Haram. Now, for the first time, he thinks they may be on his side. "We are pleased the president has finally recognized our peril and we pray his plan works," Mohammed said, frying fish by the roadside as a crowd of young children looked on hungrily and trucks packed with troops rumbled past. ...


Swedish capital returning to normal after week of violence

Posted: 25 May 2013 05:01 PM PDT

A bystander checks the debris around a row of burnt cars in the suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around StockholmSweden's capital was relatively calm on Saturday night with only isolated incidents of violence by youths after nearly a week of car-burnings and vandalism that have highlighted growing inequality in Swedish society.


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