2014年5月12日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Bombings and shootings kill 14 in Iraq

Posted: 12 May 2014 01:21 PM PDT

Family members of Ali Jamal, 23, who was killed in a bomb attack, load his flag-draped coffin onto a vehicle before burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 12, 2014. Bombings and shootings killed several people in areas south of the Iraqi capital on Monday, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombings and shootings killed 14people in areas around the Iraqi capital on Monday, authorities said.

The Daily Fix: Trying to Account for Drone Deaths, a Texas Tackle Football Ban, and the Overpriced Space Race

Posted: 12 May 2014 12:40 PM PDT

More than a year ago, Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Obama administration was "struggling" to figure out how to release information to the public about its use of drones. In a push to force transparency on the issue, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is using a favored tool of his party: blocking a nomination to the federal appeals court, where Republicans have been trying to stop the advancement of judges along partisan lines. In an op-ed in The New York Times, Paul writes, "I believe that killing an American citizen without a trial is an extraordinary concept and deserves serious debate." One American citizen he's referring to is Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by drone fire in Yemen in 2011.

Bombings and shootings kill 10 in Iraq

Posted: 12 May 2014 12:39 PM PDT

Family members of Ali Jamal, 23, who was killed in a bomb attack, load his flag-draped coffin onto a vehicle before burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 12, 2014. Bombings and shootings killed several people in areas south of the Iraqi capital on Monday, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombings and shootings killed 10 people in areas around the Iraqi capital on Monday, authorities said.

IMF's Lagarde backs out of planned graduation speech at U.S. college

Posted: 12 May 2014 12:07 PM PDT

Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund Managing Director, speaks to Syrian refugee student at Alimate school in Mafraq in this file photoBy Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - The managing director of the International Monetary Fund on Monday canceled a planned commencement speech at one of the most prestigious U.S. women's colleges after students protested honoring an organization that supports \"patriarchal systems.\" Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, said that Brown University president Ruth Simmons would instead address graduates on Sunday after students circulated an online petition asking that Christine Lagarde, a French politician who has headed the IMF since 2011, be un-invited. The petition noted Lagarde's achievement as the first woman to run the IMF but criticized the organization.

Syria jihadists ban mannequins in shops

Posted: 12 May 2014 11:48 AM PDT

mannequin in DamascusSyria's most extreme jihadist faction issued a ban Monday on mannequins in shop displays and the sale of women's underwear to male customers, a monitoring group said. The decision by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in their northern stronghold of Raqa also bans men and women shopping together unless he is her husband, father or brother, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Observatory also said ISIL has decided that traditional garments on sale must be neither \"tight, transparent or ornate\". Raqa is the only provincial capital in Syria to have fallen from the hands of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and it is now completely under ISIL control.

Bombings and shootings kill 7 in Iraq

Posted: 12 May 2014 11:42 AM PDT

Family members of Ali Jamal, 23, who was killed in a bomb attack, load his flag-draped coffin onto a vehicle before burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 12, 2014. Bombings and shootings killed several people in areas south of the Iraqi capital on Monday, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombings and shootings killed seven people in areas south of the Iraqi capital on Monday, authorities said.

Battles rage in eastern Syria, activists say

Posted: 12 May 2014 11:41 AM PDT

Syrians walk on a street decorated with campaign posters of the June 3 presidential election in Damascus, Syria, Monday, May 12, 2014. The Arabic, top center, reads, "Let's fight corruption, Hassan al-Nouri, June 4, 2014." The one, center, reads, "Damascus spreads flowers for the loyal Bashar." On billboards and in posters taped to car windows, new portraits of President Bashar Assad filled the streets of Damascus on Sunday as Syria officially opened its presidential campaign despite a crippling civil war that has devastated the country and left large chunks of territory outside of government control. Assad faces two other candidates in the race: Maher Hajjar and Hassan al-Nouri, both members of the so-called internal opposition tolerated by the government. (AP Photo)BEIRUT (AP) — Heavy fighting broke out Monday between rival jihadi groups in an oil-rich eastern Syrian province bordering Iraq, forcing many residents to flee, activists said.

Iraqi Kurdistan gambles on oil and Baghdad's benevolence

Posted: 12 May 2014 10:50 AM PDT

Iraqi Kurdistan is risking the loss of its share of Iraq's national budget to secure greater independence and the right to manage its own oil. Although oil exports could net the Kurdistan Regional Government a healthy revenue stream, for now it cannot plug the gap if Baghdad continues to withhold the 17 percent of the national budget that it provides to Kurdistan every year. That revenue makes up the largest chunk of the Kurdish region's budget, even though the Kurds say they regularly receive much less than promised. 

Activists report fierce battles in eastern Syria

Posted: 12 May 2014 09:34 AM PDT

Syrians walk on a street decorated with campaign posters of the June 3 presidential election in Damascus, Syria, Monday, May 12, 2014. The Arabic, top center, reads, "Let's fight corruption, Hassan al-Nouri, June 4, 2014." The one, center, reads, "Damascus spreads flowers for the loyal Bashar." On billboards and in posters taped to car windows, new portraits of President Bashar Assad filled the streets of Damascus on Sunday as Syria officially opened its presidential campaign despite a crippling civil war that has devastated the country and left large chunks of territory outside of government control. Assad faces two other candidates in the race: Maher Hajjar and Hassan al-Nouri, both members of the so-called internal opposition tolerated by the government. (AP Photo)BEIRUT (AP) — Activists are reporting heavy fighting between rival jihadi groups in a Syrian oil-rich eastern province that borders Iraq.

Iraq attacks kill nine

Posted: 12 May 2014 09:31 AM PDT

An Iraqi woman inspects the wreckage of a car after a bomb explosion in Baghdad's northern Shiite-majority district of Sadr City, on May 11, 2014A series of attacks around Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed nine people Monday as officials tallied votes from elections held last month during a protracted surge in unrest. Monday's deadliest violence struck near Beiji, north of the capital, as four people were killed by a suicide car bomb targeting a military checkpoint, officials said. Attacks also struck in northern Nineveh province, as well as in the towns of Madain and Mahmudiyah, near Baghdad.

Al Qaeda's Iraqi offshoot gains ground in Syria amid rebel infighting

Posted: 12 May 2014 06:33 AM PDT

By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) - A rogue Iraqi offshoot of al Qaeda is now killing more rival al Qaeda fighters every week in Syria than President Bashar al-Assad's forces as infighting intensifies among opposition gunmen. Clashes this year between al Qaeda's official Syria wing, the Nusra Front, and the franchise's disowned offspring, The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has killed hundreds of fighters and displaced tens of thousands of civilians. Nusra lost control of Raqqa - the only rebel-held city in Syria - to ISIL fighters in January and intense fighting over the weekend resulted in ISIL making gains in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor, Syria's oil region.

Al-Qaida-breakaway group criticizes al-Zawahri

Posted: 12 May 2014 06:24 AM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — The official spokesman of an al-Qaida-breakaway group has strongly criticized its parent organization's head, Ayman al-Zawahri, for siding with a rival jihadi group in Syria.

WORLD Channel Honors Veterans in May with Compelling & Original Documentaries

Posted: 12 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT

BOSTON, May 12, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In honor of returning veterans and in remembrance of those who bravely fought and died for our country, WORLD Channel will feature exclusive films that illustrate stories of these brave men and women today and throughout history. This special focus programming, exclusive to WORLD Channel, includes America Reframed: Reserved to Fight and Local USA: PTSD: Bringing The War Home. ...

Czech Defense Minister sees no NATO troops stationed on Czech soil

Posted: 12 May 2014 04:55 AM PDT

By Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic does not favor hosting foreign NATO troops as part of the alliance's plans to boost its eastern wing over the Ukraine crisis, its Defense minister said, in sharp contrast to some of its regional peers. Martin Stropnicky, whose country joined NATO along with Poland and Hungary in 1999, also accused Russia in an interview of waging a \"disinformation campaign\" in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Europe over its policies and goals in Ukraine. NATO's top military commander, U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove, said last week the alliance would have to consider permanently stationing troops in eastern Europe as a result of increased tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

ISIL slams Qaeda chief, refuses to quit Syria

Posted: 12 May 2014 03:57 AM PDT

A member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) speaks into a microphone urging people to join their fight against the regime, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 13, 2013A powerful jihadist group battling Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria has sharply criticised the global terror network's leader in a statement, rejecting his call for them to leave the war-ravaged country. The audio recording, purportedly made by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, also urged Ayman al-Zawahiri to remove the leader of Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria. \"Sheikh Osama gathered all the mujahedeen (holy warriors) with one word, but you divided them and tore them apart,\" Adnani said in the audio statement posted on jihadist forums on Sunday, referring to Zawahiri's predecessor Osama bin Laden.

Presidential checklist: jockeying for position

Posted: 11 May 2014 11:44 PM PDT

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, second left, before taking her sunglasses off poses for a group photograph with her husband former U.S. President Bill Clinton, left, their daughter Chelsea, third left, and her husband Marc Mezvinsky, after they all attended Chelsea's Oxford University graduation ceremony at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, England, Saturday, May 10, 2014. Chelsea Clinton received her doctorate degree in international relations on Saturday from the prestigious British university. Her father was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford from 1968 to 1970. The graduation ceremony comes as her mother is considering a potential 2016 presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest prep work for a presidential campaign, Rand Paul is conspicuously courting moderate and establishment Republicans while Ted Cruz keeps up a travel schedule that has 2016 written all over it.

10 Things to Know for Monday

Posted: 11 May 2014 06:03 PM PDT

An Egyptian supporter of ousted former President Hosni Mubarak celebrates an appeal granted by a court, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. A court granted Hosni Mubarak's appeal of his life sentence in a Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013 hearing, ordering a retrial of the ousted Egyptian president on charges that he failed to prevent the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising that toppled his regime nearly two years ago. The ruling came one day after a prosecutor placed a new detention order on Mubarak over gifts worth millions of Egyptian pounds (hundreds of thousands of US dollars) he and other regime officials allegedly received from Egypt's top newspaper as a show of loyalty while he was in power. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:

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