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Car bomb in Iraq kills about 30 people (AP)  

2009-06-10 17:52

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In this image released by the US Army, Provincial Director of Police for Dhi Qar province Maj. Gen. Sabah Al-Fatlawi, looks at the damage caused by a car bomb in the town of Bathaa, which is near Nasiriyah, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. A car bomb ripped through a market in southern Iraq's Shiite heartland Wednesday as shoppers were buying meat and vegetables, killing and wounding dozens, officials said. (AP Photo/US Army)AP - A car bomb blew up Wednesday in a packed outdoor food market in one of the most peaceful areas of Iraq's Shiite south, killing about 30 people and wounding dozens more.


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Iraq: 5 US contractors to be released in Baghdad (AP)  

2009-06-10 17:42

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AP - Five detained U.S. contractors will be freed after a week in Iraqi custody due to insufficient evidence against them, the Iraqi government said Wednesday.
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2009-06-10 17:13

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AP - Iraq says 5 US contractors in Iraqi custody to be released due to insufficient evidence.
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Iraq to announce foreign oil contract winners June (AFP)  

2009-06-10 15:30

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A worker pictured at an oil refinery near the village of Taq Taq in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan. Iraq will announce at the end of this month which energy companies have been awarded contracts to work in the country, Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - Iraq said Wednesday it would announce late June which energy companies have been awarded contracts to work in the country, and assured foreign oil giants their investment plans would not be scuppered.


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Iraq market bombing kills 19 (AFP)  

2009-06-10 15:19

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Iraqis clean up debris following an explosion near Nasiriyah. A car bomb exploded in the southern Iraqi town of Batha, killing 19 people including women and children in the bloodiest attack to hit the country in weeks.(AFP/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - A car bomb exploded in a southern Iraqi market town on Wednesday, killing 19 people including women and children in the bloodiest attack to hit the country in weeks.


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Car bomb kills 25 in southern Iraqi town (McClatchy Newspapers)  

2009-06-10 15:03

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McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — At least 25 civilians were killed and more than 75 were wounded when a bomb in a parked car detonated early Wednesday inside a marketplace in a small southern Iraqi town, medical officials said.
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Car bomb rips through south Iraq market, 33 killed (Reuters)  

2009-06-10 14:26

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Reuters - A car bomb ripped through a crowded market in southern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 33 people and prompting angry protests by residents about the failure to protect them, officials and witnesses said.
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Turkey, Iraq sign military cooperation deal (AFP)  

2009-06-10 11:35

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seen here in April 2009. Turkey and Iraq have signed a preliminary accord on military cooperation, the Turkish army said.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AFP - Turkey and Iraq have signed a preliminary accord on military cooperation, the Turkish army said Wednesday.


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Iraq market bombing kills 19: hospital (AFP)  

2009-06-10 10:59

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A car bomb has exploded in a market in a southern Iraqi town, killing 19 people including women and children in the bloodiest attack to hit the country in weeks.(AFP Graphics)AFP - Nineteen people were killed and 56 injured when a car bomb exploded in a market in southern Iraq on Wednesday, the main hospital in the region said.


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Horse racing in Iraq romps past the hard times (AFP)  

2009-06-10 07:49

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Jockeys race their horses at the Equestrian club in Baghdad, Iraq's only horse racing track has been open almost continuously for more than 80 years(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Seven thoroughbred horses thundered down the backstretch engulfed in a cloud of desert dust before Rose of Ali surged across the finish line first, spurred by the zealous whip of a jockey in white silks.


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Roadside Bombs: An Iraqi Tactic on the Upsurge in Afghanistan ...  

2009-06-10 04:05

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A U.S. soldier stand guard on the top of an armored vehicle near the site of an explosion in Kapisa province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 26, 2009. A suicide bomber killed three American troops and an Afghan civilian after ramming an explosive-laden vehicle into a military convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)Time.com - Outmatched by technology, the Taliban is taking its war to the road in a campaign that not only damages infrastructure but is also taking a toll in lives


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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,311 (AP)  

2009-06-09 23:47

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AP - As of Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at least 4,311 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Mich. man who spied for Iraq gets nearly 4 years (AP)  

2009-06-09 19:11

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AP - A man described by the Saddam Hussein regime as "our good cooperating source" was sentenced Tuesday to nearly four years in prison for supplying information to Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
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US army holding 11,000 prisoners in Iraq (AFP)  

2009-06-09 18:46

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A US soldier helps an Iraqi prisoner disembark from a bus prior to his release in Baghdad's al-Dora district in April 2009. The US army said Tuesday it was holding around 11,000 prisoners in Iraq, all of whom will either be freed or handed to Iraqi authorities in line with a security accord between Baghdad and Washington.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - The US army said Tuesday it was holding around 11,000 prisoners in Iraq, all of whom will either be freed or handed to Iraqi authorities in line with a security accord between Baghdad and Washington.


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Iraqi militant linked to British kidnappings freed (AFP)  

2009-06-09 17:06

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An image taken from a videotape broadcast by Al-Arabiya in 2008 shows British hostage Peter Moore who was kidnapped from the Iraqi finance ministry in 2007. The British Embassy has said a Shiite militant -- whose group is linked to the kidnapping of Moore and his four bodyguards -- has been handed over to Iraqi custody.(AFP/Al-Arabiya/File)AFP - An Iraqi militant whose group is suspected of kidnapping five Britons two years ago was freed from a US prison and briefly met his parents in Baghdad before fleeing, officials told AFP on Tuesday.


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Former Iraqi officials flee to Germany (AFP)  

2009-06-09 15:59

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AFP - Two former senior officials in Iraq's volatile Diyala province accused of corruption have fled to Germany and the autonomous region of Kurdistan, a security official said on Tuesday.
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Five murder suspects quizzed by Iraqi judge (AFP)  

2009-06-09 15:58

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Iraqi police stand guard at a checkpoint in Baghdad on June 5. Five men -- including at least four Americans -- arrested on suspicion of murdering US citizen James Kitterman have been questioned for the first time by an Iraqi judge.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Five men -- including at least four Americans -- arrested on suspicion of murdering a US citizen in Baghdad have been questioned for the first time by an Iraqi judge, a judicial official told AFP on Tuesday.


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Human trafficking organization busted in Europe (AP)  

2009-06-09 14:31

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AP - Police rounded up suspects in eight European countries on Tuesday as they cracked down on a human trafficking organization that had smuggled thousands of Iraqi Kurds into Europe aboard trucks, sometimes stuffing them into cages or hiding them in vending machines, authorities said.
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Iraqi cops train to hunt militants with DNA and dogs (Reuters)  

2009-06-09 01:54

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Reuters - At a sparkling new forensic crime office in Baghdad, trainees in white lab coats drip blood into test tubes in search of genetic clues.
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UN chief urges Iraqis not to revert to revenge (AP)  

2009-06-08 23:08

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Iraqi soldiers carry artillery shells they have discovered in a farmland area south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. The shells were most likely buried by the Saddam Hussein's army before the invasion in 2003. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed)AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday there were encouraging signs of progress in Iraq, but urged the Iraqi people to avoid seeking revenge and warned that the process of national reconciliation "remains delicate."


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