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2008-11-19 20:14

Iraq announces date for long-delayed elections (AP)

AP - Iraq said Tuesday that it will hold long-awaited provincial elections on Jan. 31, a step forward for U.S.-backed efforts to promote national reconciliation even though a key northern area will not participate in the vote.

2008-11-19 20:14

Prospective US-Iraq pact highlights modest gains (AFP)

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari(R) shakes hands with US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker after signing the pact that will let U.S. troops stay in Iraq until 2011 after it was approved by Iraq's cabinet at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad on November 17, 2008.(AFP/POOL/File/Ceerwan Aziz)AFP - Washington and Baghdad are moving closer to clinching a security pact that highlights Iraq's growing stability but also the blood and treasure that all sides have spent to achieve modest gains.


2008-11-19 20:14

House member argues for immunity from lawsuit (AP)

In this Nov. 19, 2005 file photo, Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich arrives for his arraignment at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in San Diego County. Wuterich, who sued Rep. John Murtha for defamation wants a federal appeals court to order the Pennsylvania Democrat to testify under oath in the case. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - A Marine who sued Rep. John Murtha for defamation urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to order the Pennsylvania Democrat to testify under oath in the case.


2008-11-19 14:06

More Iraqis travel abroad despite airport chaos (Reuters)

A replica of an Iraqi Airways passenger plane is seen on display at a travel agency's office in Baghdad in this November 10, 2008 picture. IRAQ/TRAVEL (Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud/Reuters)Reuters - Many find air travel stressful, but in Iraq, finding a way around armed and nervous-looking U.S. troops blocking the airport road is only one of many headaches.


2008-11-19 14:06

Iraq plans Baghdad metro to ease traffic (AFP)

A heavily congested road in Baghdad. Baghdad municipality has invited international bids to update plans for a 39-kilometre (24-mile) metro aimed at relieving traffic in Iraq's war-battered capital.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Baghdad municipality has invited international bids to update plans for a 39-kilometre (24-mile) metro aimed at relieving traffic in Iraq's war-battered capital, the city said on Tuesday.


2008-11-19 14:06

Iran speaker urges Iraq to resist U.S. pact: report (Reuters)

Iran's Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani listens as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (none pictured) speaks to lawmakers in the Iranian parliament in Tehran, August 5, 2008. (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters)Reuters - Iran's parliament speaker urged Iraqi lawmakers to keep resisting a security pact with the United States, official media said Tuesday, a day after Baghdad signed an accord on U.S. troop presence in Iraq.


2008-11-19 08:08

Baghdad embassy contractor gives U.S. trouble again _ in Africa (McClatchy Newspapers)

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON

2008-11-19 08:08

Iraq, U.S. sign pact to pull troops out in 3 years (Reuters)

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari (R) and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker sign a pact that will let U.S. troops stay in Iraq until 2011 after it was approved by Iraq's cabinet at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad November 17, 2008. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)Reuters - Iraq and the United States signed a long-awaited accord on Monday requiring Washington to withdraw its forces by the end of 2011, eight years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.


2008-11-19 08:08

Deal on US Withdrawal from Iraq Poses a Challenge for the Pentagon (Time.com)

Time.com - While U.S. commanders had wanted a 'conditions-based' plan for leaving Iraq, Baghdad has forced the adoption of a hard deadline

2008-11-19 02:08

U.S. military chief says Iraq conditions may change (Reuters)

A U.S. soldier examines a rocket recovered during weapons search operations in Yusufiya, 20 km (12 miles) south of Baghdad November 16, 2008. (Bassim Shati/Reuters)Reuters - The top U.S. military officer on Monday gave a cautious welcome to the new U.S.-Iraqi pact that calls for U.S. forces to leave the country in three years, but he warned security conditions could change.


2008-11-19 02:08

US pullout of Iraq should depend on conditions: Mullen (AFP)

The withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, set to be completed by the end of 2011 under a proposed deal between Baghdad and Washington, should depend on the situation on the ground, US military chief Admiral Michael Mullen, seen here in Vilnius on October 22, 2008, said on Monday.(AFP/File/Petras Malukas)AFP - US military leaders are comfortable with a 2011 deadline for the withdrawal of all US forces from Iraq but it should depend on conditions on the ground, the US military chief said Monday.


2008-11-19 02:08

U.N. chief raises concerns about Iranians in Iraq (Reuters)

Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has raised concerns about nearly 3,500 opposition Iranians living in exile in Iraq and regarded as terrorists by the Baghdad government, which wants to expel them.

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