| Al-Qaida plants flag, burns bodies in Iraq attack
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 AP - Militants flew an al-Qaida flag over a Baghdad neighborhood Thursday after killing 16 security officials and burning some of their bodies in a brazen afternoon attack that served as a grim reminder of continued insurgent strength in Iraq's capital.
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| Spanish Court Seeks Arrest of U.S. Soldiers in Hotel Attack
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Time.com - Spain's National Court has re-opened its case against three U.S. troops implicated in a 2003 attack on Baghdad's Hotel Palestine that killed two journalists |
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| Gunmen and bombs kill at least 12 in Iraq
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 Reuters - Attackers killed at least 12 people and wounded 31 in a series of shootings and explosions across Iraq on Thursday, security and hospital sources said.
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| Lack of Iraq government 'embarrassing': FM
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 AFP - The lack of a government in Iraq nearly five months after general elections is "embarrassing" and is impeding any long-term decision-making, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told AFP on Thursday.
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| 16 dead, 14 wounded in Baghdad attacks
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 AFP - Sixteen people, including nine security force members, were killed and 14 wounded on Thursday in a string of attacks in the Iraqi capital's Sunni district of Al-Adhamiyah, the interior ministry said.
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| Biden bets on no explosion of violence in Iraq
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 AFP - Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview aired Thursday he would bet "everything" that there would be no explosion of sectarian violence when US combat troops leave Iraq next month.
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AP - Iraqi officials say 7 members of the security forces were killed in Baghdad attacks. |
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| Spain court seeks U.S. troops arrest for Iraq killing
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 Reuters - A Spanish High Court judge ordered on Thursday the arrest and extradition of three U.S. soldiers for killing a Spanish television cameraman during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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| Kuwait gets $650 mln in Iraqi reparation: UN
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 AFP - The United Nations released 650 million dollars in Iraqi compensation to Kuwait on Thursday, the latest payment of a war reparation scheme that began in 1994.
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| Spain reissues US troop warrants over Iraq death
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AP - A Madrid judge reissued arrest warrants Thursday for three U.S. servicemen over the death of a Spanish journalist killed by American tank fire in Iraq in 2003. |
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| Retrial of Hassan killer adjourned over missing defendant
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 AFP - The retrial of an Iraqi man convicted of killing British aid worker Margaret Hassan was adjourned again on Thursday because the imprisoned defendant could not be found, a court official said.
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| Nepal lifts ban on travel to Iraq to save jobs
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 AFP - Thousands of Nepalese workers in Iraq will be able to keep their jobs after the government lifted a ban on travel to the war-torn country, the employment ministry said on Thursday.
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