2013年9月28日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi minister doubts new civil war on horizon

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 04:09 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iraq's foreign minister says he doubts the escalating violence in the country will lead to "an all-out sectarian or civil war."

Rev. Jackson to mediate for US captive in Colombia

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 03:22 PM PDT

Rev. Jesse Jackson listens to a reporter's question during an impromptu news conference at the Hotel Nacional in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Jackson accepted a request on Saturday by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to oversee the release of a U.S. citizen Kevin Scott Sutay kidnapped in June. Jackson is in Cuba for talks with religious leaders about their concerns for the poor, and peaceful relations between Cuba, the United States and the rest of the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)HAVANA (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson accepted an invitation Saturday from Colombia's largest guerrilla army to mediate the release of a U.S. man the rebels have held since June.

Iraq says Iran's shift toward West is serious

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 03:02 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iraq's foreign minister said Saturday that the new Iranian government led by President Hassan Rouhani offers "the best chance after 34 years of animosity" to improve relations with the United States and should be taken seriously.

Iraq Kurd opposition party consolidates position in regional vote

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 02:03 PM PDT

ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdistan's main opposition party has come in second in the autonomous region's parliamentary election, according to preliminary results on Saturday that left the shape of the government still unclear a week after the vote. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) share power in the previous cabinet with a combined 59 out of 111 parliamentary seats, having fought out their rivalries in a civil war during the 1990s. ...

Iraq president's party falls to third in Kurdish polls

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 01:29 PM PDT

Vehicles drive past a giant poster featuring Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on September 18, 2013 in Iraq's northern city of SulaimaniyahArbil (Iraq) (AFP) - An opposition movement bested Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's party in the autonomous Kurdish region's parliamentary polls, shaking a decades-long duopoly on power, according to election results announced Saturday.

Syria vows to abide by UN resolution

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 01:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 29, 2013 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi speaks to journalists after an economic meeting, in Damascus, Syria. Syria's prime minister says Damascus will fully cooperate with U.N. inspectors charged with destroying the country's chemical weapons stockpile. Al-Halqi's comments Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013 come a day after the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to purge Syria of its chemical weapons program. (AP Photo/SANA, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Syria will cooperate fully with U.N. inspectors charged with securing and destroying the country's chemical weapons stockpile, the nation's prime minister said Saturday.

Navy Yard guard remembered as loving, steadfast

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 01:25 PM PDT

Washington D.C. metropolitan police officers carries the coffin of Richard Michael Ridgell, 52, of Westminster, Md. after his funeral service at the at The Church at Severn Run, in Severn, Md., on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Ridgell was one of the 12 victims who died during Washington Navy Yard shootings. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)SEVERN, Md. (AP) — Slain security guard Richard "Mike" Ridgell was a loving father and steadfast protector of 2,000 workers at the Washington Navy Yard, where he died maintaining his lobby post to keep a shotgun-wielding man from leaving the building, mourners said at a memorial service Saturday.

Iraq violence kills 14

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 12:12 PM PDT

An Iraqi boy inspects a burnt out vehicle the day after a bomb attack in the Sadr City district of Baghdad on September 22, 2103Baghdad (AFP) - Violence that included attacks on security forces and their families killed 14 people in Iraq on Saturday, officials said.

Qaeda tells Syria schoolgirls to wear Islamic clothes: NGO

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 10:16 AM PDT

Syrian children attend a class at a school in the Kadi Askar area in the Syria's northern city of Aleppo on February 9, 2013Beirut (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda front group in Syria says girls in a village it controls will not be allowed to attend school unless they wear Islamic clothing, a monitoring group said Saturday.

Analysis: Iran outreach to US faces tests at home

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 07:27 AM PDT

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, center, waves to supporters upon his arrival from the US near the Mehrabad airport in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Iranians from across the political spectrum hailed Saturday the historic phone conversation between President Barack Obama and Rouhani, reflecting wide support for an initiative that has the backing of both reformists and the country's conservative clerical leadership. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Before leaving for the United Nations, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said he hoped to open a new era in dialogue with Washington. He returned to Tehran on Saturday with more in hand than even the most optimistic predictions.

Dozens still missing after boat sinks in Indonesia

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 06:58 AM PDT

In this photo taken with a mobile phone, villagers help a survivor from a boat that sank off Java island, on Sinarlaut beach in Agrabinta, West Java, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The boat carrying dozens of asylum seekers sank en route to Australia off the coast of Indonesia's main island of Java on Friday, an official said. (AP Photo)JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers battled strong currents and high waves Saturday while searching for dozens of people missing and feared dead one day after a boat carrying asylum seekers sank off the coast of Indonesia's main island of Java, killing at least 21 people.

Officials: Attacks kill 6 civilians in Iraq

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 06:04 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say two separate attacks in Iraq have killed at least six people.

Syrian rebels capture post near Jordan border

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 04:56 AM PDT

In this image taken from Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, video obtained from the Sham News Network, Syrian opposition fighters fire at government forces near Daraa customs in Daraa al-Balad, Syria. Russia offered on Thursday to provide troops to guard facilities where Syria's chemical weapons would be destroyed, as U.N. inspectors prepared to continue their probe on the use of such agents in the country's civil war. (AP Photo/Sham News Network via AP video)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels including members of an al-Qaida-linked group captured Saturday a military post on the border with Jordan after four days of fighting, an activist group said.

Cardiothoracic Surgeon Returns to Army Roots on 9/11/01 Anniversary

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 03:00 AM PDT

FORT KNOX, Ky., Sept. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For Dr. Fred Lough, the seeds of service to country were sown when he was very young.(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130928/DC88336 )He grew up in a family with a history of service. His father, Brig. Gen. Frederick C. Lough, was a U.S. Military Academy graduate, who served during World War II, helping battle the Axis powers in several North African and European campaigns, who went on to complete a 40-year career with the Army. ...

Rev. Jackson in Cuba, hopes to see jailed American

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 03:55 PM PDT

The Rev. Jesse Jackson talks with journalists as he arrives to the Hotel Nacional in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. Jackson says he is in town for talks with religious leaders about their concerns for the poor, and peaceful relations between Cuba, the United States and the rest of the Caribbean. Jackson says he also hopes to meet with jailed American government subcontractor Alan Gross. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)HAVANA (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson traveled to Cuba Friday for talks with the island's religious leaders and said he hopes to visit Alan Gross, a U.S. government subcontractor serving a 15-year sentence in the Caribbean nation.

U.S. to Despots: Lose Your Weapons, Keep Your Job

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT

President Obama called for military action in Syria and then stood down when strongman Bashar al-Assad promised to give up his chemical weapons. He did not use cruise missiles when Assad crossed his "red line." But this was not a sign of toothlessness telegraphed to Syria's patron, Iran—another state developing weapons of mass destruction—as some Monday-morning quarterbacks insist. Quite the opposite. Obama's narrow goal had always been to remove chemical weapons from the equation. ...

Bombings and shootings kill 10 in Iraq

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 11:13 AM PDT

Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hold a demonstration calling for the release of detainees held by Iraqi authorities in the Sadr City neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombs exploded near two Sunni mosques Friday in Baghdad as a series of attacks nationwide killed 10 people, Iraqi officials said.

Bush feeling 'pretty good' after heart procedure

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 11:02 AM PDT

IRVING, Texas (AP) — Former President George W. Bush says he's feeling "pretty good" after undergoing a heart procedure last month and able to go mountain biking and play golf.

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