Archive for the 'Iraq' Category
Polls close in Iraq after attacks kill 31 (AP via Yahoo! News)
Polls have closed in Iraq’s parliamentary elections after a spate of attacks that marred the vote left 31 people dead.
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Polls open in Iraq for parliamentary elections (CNN)
Voters headed to the polls in Iraq on Sunday to elect a 325-member parliament.
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Stakes are high in Iraq’s elections (USA Today)
Billed as a key test of Iraq’s nascent democracy, Iraqis fear Sunday’s parliamentary election will lead to a protracted period of uncertainty as the winners and losers try to cobble together a new government even as American forces prepare to go home.
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U.S. official: Election of ‘enormous’ importance to Iraq (USA Today)
On the eve of Iraq’s national elections, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill told American diplomats and U.S. troops that the stakes are high for both the U.S. and Iraq in Sunday’s vote.
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Coalition Takes On Entrenched Parties in Iraq Kurdish Area (New York Times)
Leaders of the two leading parties in Iraq’s Kurdish region are taking a challenger movement as a serious threat to their long-time hold on power.
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Al-Qaeda declares Iraq ‘curfew’ to thwart polls: SITE (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Al-Qaeda in Iraq has declared a nationwide “curfew” to try to stop Sunday’s elections, warning Iraqis they risked death if they voted, the SITE monitoring agency said.
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Iraq early voting shattered by deadly blasts (AP via Yahoo! News)
A string of deadly blasts shattered an early round of voting in Iraq Thursday, killing 17 people and highlighting the fragile nature of the country’s security gains ahead of crucial parliamentary elections this Sunday.
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US ponders if Iraq elections vindicate Bush (AFP via Yahoo! News)
“Victory at Last,” proclaims the magazine cover. Elections in Iraq, seven years after the US invasion, could belatedly prove former president George W. Bush right, Newsweek magazine suggests in its latest issue.
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Rove admits to error on Iraq as Bush strategist (AP via Yahoo! News)
Republican strategist Karl Rove says in a new memoir that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq badly damaged the Bush administration’s credibility and led to dwindling public support for the war.
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Iraq war takes centre stage at Oscars (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Seven years after Michael Moore was booed off the Oscars stage for protesting the invasion of Iraq, a film depicting the conflict is poised to take the top prize at the Academy Awards.
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