Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Chemical weapons inspectors visit 3 Syria sites
• Sunni rebels, Shi'ite militia clash near Damascus shrine
• Jihadis may want to kill Assad. But is he lucky to have them?
• Iraq says executes 42 'terrorists', including woman
• Iraq violence kills 21 people
• Canada's Alice Munro wins Nobel literature prize
• Iraq executes 42 'terrorism' convicts in a week
• Western allies have little chance of influencing Libya
• Zimbabwe will back call for ICC pull out
• Iraq inks $6 bln refinery deal
• Syrian child refugees face exploitation, UNICEF says
• Turkey's Kurdish rebels consider ending cease-fire
• Syria air raids on rebels 'kill 30'
• Lindsay's 4Q profit up but misses expectations
• Factbox: Libya's rival militia groups
• Kurdish rebels say Turkish reforms 'disappoint', weigh ceasefire
• Iraq hangs 42 convicted on terrorism charges
• Iraq executes 42 'terrorists', including woman, as violence worsens
• Iranian dissidents say Tehran moving nuclear research site
• Turkey approves strikes against rebels in Iraq
• Azerbaijan announces election winner — before vote
• OPEC trims demand for its oil, pumps above 2014 requirement
• 'The Fifth Estate': The film that outraged Assange
• Soccer-AFC warn Iraq over government interference
• Data show China passing US as biggest oil importer
• Analysis: Chaotic oil power Libya far from partition
• Chaotic oil power Libya far from partition
• Power-starved Iraqis know amps from watts
• Analysis: Western powers ask is Iran really ready to make a nuclear deal?
• Assange slams Wikileaks film as 'geriatric snoozefest'
• During shutdown, U.S. charity to ensure fallen troops' death benefits

Chemical weapons inspectors visit 3 Syria sites Posted: 10 Oct 2013 04:47 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — International inspectors have so far visited three sites linked to Syria's chemical weapons program, a spokesman said Thursday, as the team races to destroy the country's stockpile and delivery systems amid a raging civil war.

Sunni rebels, Shi'ite militia clash near Damascus shrine Posted: 10 Oct 2013 04:16 PM PDT By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Fighting flared on Thursday between Syrian Sunni rebels and foreign militias near a main Shi'ite shrine on the southern edge of Damascus, opposition activists said, in an increasingly internationalized conflict deepening Middle East sectarian faultlines. Heavy clashes were reported as rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, whose Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, attacked Lebanese Hezbollah and Iraqi Shi'ite militia based in the Saida Zainab suburb of Damascus with mortar bombs and automatic weapons, the sources said. ...

Jihadis may want to kill Assad. But is he lucky to have them? Posted: 10 Oct 2013 02:00 PM PDT Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad has long presented his regime as a beacon of stability and secularism against rebels he insists are foreign-funded Al Qaeda jihadis bent on turning the country into a strict Islamist state.

Iraq says executes 42 'terrorists', including woman Posted: 10 Oct 2013 01:35 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq executed 42 people, including a woman, for mass killings and other "terrorism" offences over the past week, the justice ministry and the United Nations said on Thursday after a surge in sectarian violence. The U.N. mission in Iraq said it was concerned about the executions, which took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Amnesty International described the news as "extremely alarming". Both urged Baghdad to immediately suspend the death penalty, which rights groups say has been used with increasing frequency by Iraqi authorities in recent years. ...

Iraq violence kills 21 people Posted: 10 Oct 2013 01:28 PM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - Violence in Iraq killed 21 people on Thursday, among them four anti-Al-Qaeda fighters and an AFP journalist's brother, officials said.

Canada's Alice Munro wins Nobel literature prize Posted: 10 Oct 2013 01:16 PM PDT STOCKHOLM (AP) — If there were a literary award bigger than the Nobel Prize, Alice Munro would probably win that, too.

Iraq executes 42 'terrorism' convicts in a week Posted: 10 Oct 2013 12:31 PM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq executed 42 "terrorism" convicts over the past week, the justice ministry said on Thursday, defying international condemnation of its extensive use of the death penalty, as deadly violence intensifies.

Western allies have little chance of influencing Libya Posted: 10 Oct 2013 12:29 PM PDT By Myra MacDonald LONDON (Reuters) - With Libya sliding into anarchy - its prime minister was briefly kidnapped by militiamen on Thursday - Western countries are repeating their commitment to help the North African country complete its transition to democracy after its 2011 revolution. But they have few good options to back up those promises beyond hoping the Libyan people themselves can eventually agree on a system of governance to reduce fighting between the country's many ethnic, tribal and regional factions. ...

Zimbabwe will back call for ICC pull out Posted: 10 Oct 2013 11:43 AM PDT HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's justice minister said Thursday his nation will back any calls for African nations that want to break ties with the International Criminal Court at the continentwide African Union summit this weekend in Ethiopia.

Iraq inks $6 bln refinery deal Posted: 10 Oct 2013 11:23 AM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq on Thursday signed a $6 billion deal for the construction and operation of an oil refinery with a capacity of 150,000 barrels per day, a government statement said.

Syrian child refugees face exploitation, UNICEF says Posted: 10 Oct 2013 10:58 AM PDT By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Child refugees who have fled Syria's civil war are vulnerable to exploitation including early marriage, domestic violence and child labor, despite efforts to keep them in school, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday. More than one million children, some without parents or close relatives, are among 2.1 million refugees who have crossed mainly into Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey since March 2011, the agency says. ...

Turkey's Kurdish rebels consider ending cease-fire Posted: 10 Oct 2013 10:27 AM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Kurdish rebels have criticized reforms unveiled by Turkey's government and said that could lead them to end a unilateral cease-fire they began six months ago.

Syria air raids on rebels 'kill 30' Posted: 10 Oct 2013 09:57 AM PDT Beirut (AFP) - Syrian air raids on rebel positions in the northern Aleppo and southern Daraa provinces killed 30 people on Thursday, including civilians, a monitoring group said.

Lindsay's 4Q profit up but misses expectations Posted: 10 Oct 2013 09:49 AM PDT Lindsay Corp. on Thursday posted a 19 percent jump in fourth-quarter net income on improved revenue but the results fell short of market expectations, sending the irrigation equipment maker's stock lower. ...

Factbox: Libya's rival militia groups Posted: 10 Oct 2013 08:46 AM PDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The brief seizure of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan by a former rebel group has highlighted the fragile government's struggle to contain ex-fighters and tribal militias who operate with impunity in parts of the country, two years after the Western-backed overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. Here are details of the main militias and armed groups operating in Libya and their locations: LIBYA SHIELDS - Mostly a coalition of militias from coastal cities west and east of Tripoli, mainly Zawya in the west and Misrata in the east. ...

Kurdish rebels say Turkish reforms 'disappoint', weigh ceasefire Posted: 10 Oct 2013 08:36 AM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Kurdish militants are considering whether to maintain their ceasefire after saying Turkish political reforms aimed at bolstering democracy had failed to address their grievances. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan last week pledged to expand some Kurdish rights in a package seen as part of a fragile peace process with the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which declared a ceasefire in March. "The package disappointed democratic forces, especially the Kurds ... ...

Iraq hangs 42 convicted on terrorism charges Posted: 10 Oct 2013 08:23 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has hanged 42 prisoners convicted of terrorism-related charges, including a woman, the Justice Ministry said Thursday, in Baghdad's latest use of capital punishment despite international appeals to have it abolished.

Iraq executes 42 'terrorists', including woman, as violence worsens Posted: 10 Oct 2013 08:23 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq executed 42 people, including a woman, for mass killings and other "terrorism" offences over two days this week, the justice ministry and the United Nations said on Thursday after a surge in sectarian violence. The U.N. mission in the country said it was concerned about the executions, which took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, and repeated its call for Baghdad to suspend the death penalty. Rights groups say executions have been on the rise in recent years. Sixty-eight death sentences were carried out in 2011, according to Amnesty International. ...

Iranian dissidents say Tehran moving nuclear research site Posted: 10 Oct 2013 08:11 AM PDT By Nicholas Vinocur and Fredrik Dahl PARIS/VIENNA (Reuters) - An exiled Iranian opposition group said on Thursday it had information about what it said was a center for nuclear weaponisation research in Tehran that the government was moving to avoid detection ahead of negotiations with world powers. The dissident National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) exposed Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz and a heavy water facility at Arak in 2002. But analysts say it has a mixed track record and a clear political agenda. ...

Turkey approves strikes against rebels in Iraq Posted: 10 Oct 2013 07:15 AM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's parliament has extended for another year a mandate allowing the military to carry out operations against Kurdish rebels based in neighboring northern Iraq.

Azerbaijan announces election winner — before vote Posted: 10 Oct 2013 07:06 AM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — Something funny happened the day before Azerbaijan's presidential election: The election commission announced the winner.

OPEC trims demand for its oil, pumps above 2014 requirement Posted: 10 Oct 2013 06:45 AM PDT By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC further lowered the forecast demand for its crude in the fourth quarter and 2014, and said its production remained higher than next year's global requirement despite a plunge in Iraqi and Libyan output. The outlook could point to a challenging 2014 for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Rising rival output will make it harder for it to keep its own production at high rates without risking a drop in prices below its preferred level of $100 a barrel. ...

'The Fifth Estate': The film that outraged Assange Posted: 10 Oct 2013 06:34 AM PDT London (AFP) - "The Fifth Estate", recounting how WikiLeaks rocked the US administration, has its worldwide release in Britain on Friday, but the website's creator Julian Assange has slammed the film as "cowardly".

Soccer-AFC warn Iraq over government interference Posted: 10 Oct 2013 03:33 AM PDT Oct 10 (Reuters) - The Asian Football Confederation have warned the Iraq government to stay out of football matters after they withdrew the national team from the Gulf Cup in frustration at being stripped of the hosting rights. The heads of the eight Football Associations that normally compete in the regional event agreed on Tuesday to switch the tournament to the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, citing incomplete infrastructure and a FIFA ban on Iraq hosting international matches because of security concerns. ...

Data show China passing US as biggest oil importer Posted: 10 Oct 2013 02:35 AM PDT China has achieved another world-beating status its leaders don't want: Biggest oil importer. China passed the United States in September as the world's biggest net oil importer, driven by faster economic ...

Analysis: Chaotic oil power Libya far from partition Posted: 10 Oct 2013 12:55 AM PDT By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Patrick Markey TRIPOLI/TUNIS (Reuters) - Deep in Libya's southern Sahara, tribal sheikhs crowded into a Bedouin tent last month to declare their remote province bordering Algeria would break away from the government in far-off Tripoli. A thousand miles to the east, armed protesters had seized ports disrupting oil shipments into the Mediterranean in support of local activists who appointed a de facto prime minister. ...

Chaotic oil power Libya far from partition Posted: 10 Oct 2013 12:52 AM PDT By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Patrick Markey TRIPOLI/TUNIS (Reuters) - Deep in Libya's southern Sahara, tribal sheikhs crowded into a Bedouin tent last month to declare their remote province bordering Algeria would break away from the government in far-off Tripoli. A thousand miles to the east, armed protesters had seized ports disrupting oil shipments into the Mediterranean in support of local activists who appointed a de facto prime minister. ...

Power-starved Iraqis know amps from watts Posted: 09 Oct 2013 10:45 PM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - In electricity-starved Iraq, just about everyone knows his amperes from his watts, and juggling electrical appliances to run them off a generator is by now second-nature.

Analysis: Western powers ask is Iran really ready to make a nuclear deal? Posted: 09 Oct 2013 10:07 PM PDT By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Western nations are struggling to answer one key question as they assess conflicting signals from Tehran ahead of next week's big-power meeting with Iran in Geneva - is the Islamic Republic ready to make a deal on its controversial nuclear program. While it is clear that Iran wants an end to the crippling international sanctions world powers have imposed on it for refusing to halt uranium enrichment and other sensitive atomic work, Western diplomats say it is not clear whether Tehran is prepared to significantly curtail its nuclear activities. ...

Assange slams Wikileaks film as 'geriatric snoozefest' Posted: 09 Oct 2013 06:14 PM PDT Sydney (AFP) - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange Thursday renewed his attack on a film about the whistleblowing website, calling it a "geriatric snoozefest" as he released a letter written to its star Benedict Cumberbatch.

During shutdown, U.S. charity to ensure fallen troops' death benefits Posted: 09 Oct 2013 06:11 PM PDT By Phil Stewart and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A private U.S. charity struck a deal with the Pentagon on Wednesday to advance a "death gratuity" to families of American troops who die during the government shutdown, after the Defense Department determined it was legally unable to make the $100,000 payment. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced the agreement after returning from Dover Air Force Base, where he attended a ceremony marking the return of the bodies of four U.S. soldiers killed by insurgents in Afghanistan on Sunday. ...

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