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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq attacks kill 15 as elections loom

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 10:42 AM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister and head of the State of Law alliance, Nuri al-Maliki (C) gives a speech during a campaign meeting on April 26, 2014 in BaghdadAttacks in Iraq killed 15 people Saturday in the run-up to next week's first parliamentary election since US troops withdrew, with violence at its worst in years. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is seeking a third term on Wednesday, with voters citing a long list of grievances ranging from poor electricity and sewerage services to rampant corruption and high unemployment. In Salaheddin province north of Baghdad, a series of attacks left eight people dead. A police officer said at least two of the Baghdad assassinations appeared to be revenge attacks for Friday's twin bombings targeting the political rally.

Attacks kill at least 6 in Baghdad

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 09:43 AM PDT

A man mourns over the flag-draped coffin of his son during a funeral procession for five militia members of a Shiite group, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, or League of the Righteous, in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 26, 2014. The five members was killed when a series of bombs exploded Friday at a campaign rally in Baghdad, their families said. Members of Asaib Ahl al-Haq fight in Syria's civil war alongside President Bashar Assad's forces. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Two attacks killed at least six people Saturday in the Iraqi capital, where police also discovered nine bodies, some of them riddled with bullets, officials said.

More renounce US citizenship but deny stereotype

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 09:41 AM PDT

This July 2012 photo provided by Carol Tapanila shows her and her second husband in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Tapanila, a native of upstate New York who has lived in Canada since 1969, has joined a largely overlooked surge of Americans rejecting what is, to millions, a highly sought prize: U.S. citizenship. In 2013, the U.S. government reported a record 2,999 people renounced citizenship or terminated permanent residency. (AP Photo/Carol Tapanila)Inside the long-awaited package, six pages of government paperwork dryly affirmed Carol Tapanila's anxious request. But when Tapanila slipped the contents from the brown envelope, she saw there was something more.

France denies it paid ransom for Syria reporters

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 08:07 AM PDT

A French government spokesman denied on Sunday a report that it paid a ransom for the release a week ago of four French journalists held captive in Syria for more than 10 months. Focus, a German magazine, published on its website a report that France paid 18 million dollars for their release, citing NATO sources in Brussels. "The government categorically denies this report and reiterates France's position on the question of liberation of hostages which (foreign minister) Laurent Fabius recalled last Saturday," a defense ministry spokesman told Reuters. Everything is done through negotiations and discussions." The four journalists returned home to France on April 20, where they were met at an airbase by Hollande and by their families and friends.

Al Qaeda chief urges Westerner kidnappings

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 05:43 AM PDT

Ayman al-ZawahiriAl Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners, particularly Americans, who could then be exchanged for jailed jihadists including a blind Egyptian cleric convicted in 1995 of conspiring to attack the United Nations and other New York landmarks. In a wide ranging audio interview, the al Qaeda leader expressed solidarity with the Muslim Brotherhood which is facing a violent crackdown by the army-backed government in Egypt and urged unity among rebels in their fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Reuters could not verify the authenticity of the Zawahiri tape, but the voice resembled that of the al Qaeda leader. "I ask Allah the Glorious to help us set free Dr. Omar Abdel-Rahman and the rest of the captive Muslims, and I ask Allah to help us capture from among the Americans and the Westerners to enable us to exchange them for our captives," said Zawahiri, according to the SITE website monitoring service.

Shiite rally bombing sparks reprisals in Iraq

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 04:56 AM PDT

This image made from video shows a car bomb at the moment of impact, one in a series of bombs that exploded Friday, April 25, 2014 at a campaign rally for a Shiite group in Baghdad, Iraq, ahead of the country's parliamentary election. The blasts killed and wounded dozens, officials said. (AP Photo via AP video)BAGHDAD (AP) — A multiple bombing that killed at least 33 people at a campaign rally for a militant Shiite group likely unleashed a series of apparent sectarian attacks in Iraq, signaling the start of a new wave of Sunni-Shiite bloodletting ahead of elections next week, security officials said Saturday.

10 Things to Know: This Week's Takeaways

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 04:26 AM PDT

Pro Russian armed militants inspect a car near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, April 25, 2014. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused the West of plotting to control Ukraine and said the pro-Russian insurgents in the southeast would lay down their arms only if the Ukrainian government clears out the Maidan protest camp in the capital Kiev. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)Looking back at the stories to remember from the past week:

Timeline: Key dates in the life of Pope John Paul II

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 04:06 AM PDT

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005 after a pontificate of nearly 27 years, will be elevated to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday by Pope Francis. Here are some major events in his life. - May 18, 1920: Born Karol Jozef Wojtyla, in Wadowice, Poland, second son of retired Polish army sergeant and mother of Lithuanian origin. - 1942: After losing all members of his immediate family, he decides to become a priest and studies secretly for ordination during Nazi occupation. - Nov 1, 1946: Ordained in Krakow. Later completes studies in Rome, returns to Poland. ...

A look at major players in Iraq national elections

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 03:18 AM PDT

In this photo taken on April 14, 2014, an Iraqi man passes by campaign posters in Baghdad, Iraq. Vibrant election posters promising jobs, prosperity and security bring a rare splash of color to Iraq's potholed, checkpoint-dotted streets. The vibrant posters promise jobs, prosperity and security coming from Iraq's first parliamentary elections since U.S. troops withdrew from the country, but so far, voters have only dim hopes as sectarian bloodshed rages unstopped. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq is set to hold its first national parliamentary elections Wednesday after the withdrawal of the U.S. forces in 2011. More than 22 million voters will be eligible to cast their ballots to choose 328 lawmakers out of more than 9,000 candidates.

Iraqis to vote for new parliament with dim hopes

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 03:15 AM PDT

In this photo taken on April 15, 2014, Iraqis past election campaign posters in Basra, Iraq. The vibrant posters promise jobs, prosperity and security coming from Iraq's first parliamentary elections since U.S. troops withdrew from the country, but so far, voters have only dim hopes as sectarian bloodshed rages unstopped. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)BAGHDAD (AP) — The vibrant posters promise jobs, prosperity and security coming from Iraq's first parliamentary elections since U.S. troops withdrew from the country, but so far, voters have only dim hopes as sectarian bloodshed rages unstopped.

Iraq political rally bombings kill 33, officials say

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 01:46 AM PDT

An Iraqi woman walks past the wreckage of a car that was destroyed by an explosion in Baghdad's northern Shiite-majority district of Sadr City, on April 17, 2014The death toll from twin jihadist bombings that struck a Shiite political rally in the Iraqi capital ahead of next week's parliamentary election has risen to 33, officials said Saturday. Friday's attack by a Sunni militant group came at the height of campaigning ahead of Wednesday's polls, the first since US troops withdrew in late 2011 and with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seeking reelection amid the country's worst violence since a brutal Sunni-Shiite sectarian war. A car bomb followed by a suicide attack hit the rally for the Sadiqun bloc, the political wing of the Asaib Ahel al-Haq (League of the Righteous) militia, killing 33 people and leaving more than 100 wounded, security and medical officials said. The League of the Righteous, a Shiite militia blamed in the past for killing US soldiers and kidnapping Britons, has been linked to groups fighting mostly Sunni rebels in Syria, whose civil war has split the Middle East's sectarian communities, particularly in multi-confessional Iraq.

Bombers kill 33 at Iraq campaign rally for Shiite

Posted: 25 Apr 2014 11:31 PM PDT

This image made from video shows a car bomb at the moment of impact, one in a series of bombs that exploded Friday, April 25, 2014 at a campaign rally for a Shiite group in Baghdad, Iraq, ahead of the country's parliamentary election. The blasts killed and wounded dozens, officials said. (AP Photo via AP video)BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide bombers killed 33 people Friday at a sports stadium hosting a campaign rally for thousands of supporters of a militant Shiite group before parliamentary elections, authorities said — an attack that could unleash more sectarian violence.

Death toll in Iraq rally attack rises to 33

Posted: 25 Apr 2014 11:25 PM PDT

This image made from video shows a car bomb at the moment of impact, one in a series of bombs that exploded Friday, April 25, 2014 at a campaign rally for a Shiite group in Baghdad, Iraq, ahead of the country's parliamentary election. The blasts killed and wounded dozens, officials said. (AP Photo via AP video)BAGHDAD (AP) — Security and hospital officials in Iraq say the death toll in the suicide bomb attack on a campaign rally for supporters of a Shiite militant group has risen to 33.

Witness in U.S. Army hearing over Iraq shootings says he kept silent out of fear

Posted: 25 Apr 2014 07:40 PM PDT

Sergeant First Class Michael Barbera, 31, faces two counts of premeditated murder in the evidentiary Article 32 hearing being held at Washington state's Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Former U.S. Army Sergeant Kenneth Katter testified during the proceeding that past experiences shook his confidence in his superior officers, keeping him from reporting the incident. "Who am I going to report it to?" The shootings occurred in Iraq's Diyala province, when two cow-herding brothers, aged 14 and 15, came upon Barbera's eight-member 82nd Airborne Division unit hidden in a palm grove. Barbera was found by investigators to have murdered the boys and lied about it to superiors, an official investigative summary shows.

Christians face 'disaster' in Iraq, church leader says

Posted: 25 Apr 2014 05:00 PM PDT

Iraqi Christians attend the Easter Sunday mass at the Chaldean Sacred Heart Cathedral in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, 240 kms (150 miles) from BaghdadKirkuk (Iraq) (AFP) - Iraq's dwindling Christian community faces "disaster," and if no action is taken they will number just a few thousand in a decade, the country's most senior church leader told AFP. Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako said the daily migration of Christians from Iraq was "terrifying" and blamed a range of factors, including generally poor security in the country and worsening religious extremism. Iraq's Christian community is a shadow of what it used to be -- once numbering more than a million nationwide, with upwards of 600,000 in Baghdad alone, there are now fewer than 400,000 across the country. "The daily migration of Christians from Iraq is terrifying and very worrying," Sako told AFP from the ethnically-mixed northern city of Kirkuk on Friday evening.

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