The Examiner
6th International Conference on EU, Turkey and the Kurds (English)
| Supporters of pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party dance outside a hall where party members attend the party's congress in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Feb.1, 2010. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) Related articles Kurdish fashion slide show Peace in ...
The New York Times
In Northern Iraq, a Vote Seems Likely to Split (English)
| QARAQOSH, Iraq - There was a hope, not long ago, that democracy would mean peace and stability for Nineveh, a place where cultures and armies have clashed since biblical times. Instead, democracy is hardening divisions - of people, of resources, of...
Khaleej Times
Bring Iraq's Sunnis on Board (English)
The government of Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki has played a positive and crucial role in stabilising the war-ravaged Iraq. | Maliki has earned himself admiration and praise of Iraqi people as well as the larger Arab world with his no-nonsense approa...
The Star
Former Iraq PM: poll ban risks civil war (English)
| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A ban on election candidates accused of links with Saddam Hussein's Baath party threatens to drag Iraq into civil war, a former prime minister and head of a group seen as a strong contender in the polls said on Monday. Former Ir...
CBC
The fight for power in northern Iraq (English)
| With a population approaching 30 million, roughly the size of Canada's, the Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, after the Arabs, Turks and Persians. | Their lament, of course, is that they do not have a country of their ow...
The Examiner
Iraqi PM: Appeals panel can review election law (English)
Comments BAGHDAD (Map, News) - Iraq's prime minister says he accepts an appeals panel's jurisdiction over a ban on candidates from March 7 parliamentary elections for their suspected ties to Saddam Hussein's regime. | The seven-member panel is combin...
The Daily Mail
Gang of illegal migrants swindled £24m of 'dirty' drug deal money in Special K cereal boxes (English)
| The only female member of the gang was caught on video passing over a Kellogg's Special K cereal box loaded with £200,000 drug money | A team of money launderers collected £24million of 'dirty' drug deal money in shopping trollies and Special K cer...
m&c
Iraqi Shiites protest "Baathist" election candidates (Roundup) (English)
| Baghdad - Thousands of supporters of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Dawaa Party demonstrated outside the house of parliament in Baghdad on Sunday, to call for the exclusion of 'Baathist' candidates from the March polls. | Al-Maliki had calle...
Yahoo Daily News
French police evacuate migrants' shelter (English)
| CALAIS, France (AFP) – French police on Sunday shut down a makeshift shelter for migrants in the Channel port of Calais, just 24 hours after an activist group had opened up the centre. | About 90 migrants spent the night at a warehouse in Cal...
The Examiner
Protests held in Iraq amid row over election ban (English)
Comments BAGHDAD (Map, News) - Hundreds of protesters denounced Iraqis still loyal to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party on Sunday as tensions soared over the decision to blacklist suspected Baathists from next month's election. | Protesters chanted and ca...
The Star
Iraq panel reinstates election ban amid Shi'ite ire (English)
| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi appeals panel that angered Shi'ite leaders by suspending a ban on candidates accused of links to Saddam Hussein's Baath party until after an election reversed its decision on Sunday, politicians said. A man walks past a...
DNA India
Iraq Shi'ite leaders vow Baath purge as furore grows (English)
| Baghdad: Iraq's Shi'ite parties held emotional demonstrations on Sunday and vowed to purge loyalists of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party as tensions over a list of candidates banned from a March election soared. | The orchestrated ...
The Star
Iraq Shi'ite leaders vow Baath purge as furore grows (English)
| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Shi'ite parties held emotional demonstrations on Sunday and vowed to purge loyalists of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party as tensions over a list of candidates banned from a March election soared. A man walks past a t...
The Boston Globe
For Maliki, a difficult road to reelection (English)
| BAGHDAD - Almost four years after his accidental rise to power, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is trying to retain his job without the allies who made him Iraq's ruler the first time around. | Maliki remains the most powerful Shi'ite political lead...
Arab News
US failures in Middle East under scanner (English)
| Lisa Kaaki, Lisakaaki@arabnews.com | BEYOND America's Grasp: A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East," attempts to explain from an American perspective the reasons behind Washington's recurrent pattern of diplomatic failures in the Middle ...
The Examiner
Shiite militants kidnap American in Iraq (English)
Comments BAGHDAD (Map, News) - A missing Iraqi-American contractor was kidnapped by Shiite militiamen who lured him into central Baghdad by promising to help him find distant relatives, an Iraqi defense official said Saturday. | A Shiite extremist gr...
The News International
Kurdish party vows cautious approach (English)
Sunday, February 07, 2010 | ANKARA: Turkey's Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) has pledged to be more cautious than a predecessor party banned last year for ties with separatist militants, whilst continuing to fight for rights for Kurds. | Poli...
The Examiner
Militant video shows abducted American in Iraq (English)
Comments BAGHDAD (Map, News) - Shiite militants kidnapped an Iraqi-American contractor after luring him into central Baghdad with promises of visiting distant relatives, an Iraqi defense official said Saturday, after a video apparently showing the ma...
The Press Democrat
RUBIN: Iran using U.S. hikers as pawns in nuclear feud (English)
| This is a case that could — and still should — be resolved on a humanitarian basis. But it has become caught in the web of Iran's domestic politics and troubles with the outside world. | On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
Daily Star Lebanon
A graveyard of military follyz (English)
| By The Daily Star | Saturday, February 06, 2010 | - Powered by | Editorial | | The story of Afghanistan is as intricate as it is painful. It is a story of flagrant abuse at the hands of a procession of superpowers, each one learning nothing ...
Khaleej Times
Return of Political Justice (English)
In democracies, justice is supposed to be independent. Some prosecutors and investigating magistrates, however, conveniently forget this. Indeed many among them are deeply enmeshed in politics, pursuing agendas - and vendettas - of their own. | The p...
The Star
Car bombs kill 40 in Iraq, tensions simmer (English)
| KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Twin car bombs killed at least 40 people and wounded 145 others on Friday in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, health officials said. Iraqi soldiers i...
The Examiner
Twin blasts kill 40 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq (English)
Comments BAGHDAD (Map, News) - A car bomb ripped through a crowd of Shiite pilgrims outside the holy city of Karbala Friday, sending many fleeing into the path of a suicide attacker who detonated a second bomb in coordinated blasts that killed at lea...
Newsvine
Israel Reportedly Training Kurdish Forces (English)
| According to recent media reports, Israeli military and intelligence agents are currently operating in Iraqi Kurdistan. Their primary role, according to reports, is to train elite Kurdish commandos in guerrilla warfare and anti-terror tactics. The ...
The Examiner
Blasts kill 40 at height of Iraq Shiite pilgrimage (English)
Comments BAGHDAD (Map, News) - Twin car bombs tore through a crowd of Shiite pilgrims packing a highway as they walked to a holy city south of Baghdad on Friday for a major religious observance, killing at least 40 people and wounding 154 others, Ira...
Khaleej Times
Two car bombs kill 31 in Iraqi holy city (English)
Twin car bombs killed at least 31 people and wounded 95 on Friday in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi pilgrims observed a major religious rite. | The attack on the final and most important day of the Arbain festival was the...
The Star
Two car bombs kill 31 in Iraqi holy city (English)
| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Twin car bombs killed at least 31 people and wounded 95 on Friday in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, hospital sources said. Iraqi soldiers inspect the wre...
Yahoo Daily News
Car bombs kill 40 in Iraq, tensions simmer (English)
| BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Twin car bombs killed at least 40 people and wounded 145 others on Friday in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, health officials said. | The at...
The Star
Bombings in Iraq holy city during rite kill 20 (English)
| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed and 75 wounded on Friday when two car bombs blew up in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, hospital sources said. Shi'ite Musli...
The Star
Q&A - Iraq's Baath party furore - what's it all about? (English)
| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi politics is in turmoil over a list of nearly 500 candidates barred from an election because of alleged links to Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party. Protesters raise banners as they take part in demonstration against the...
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