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Iraqi refugees make Mishawaka home
MISHAWAKA -- Imagine leaving your home, fleeing the country to save your life, spending months away from your family, before finally being reunited in another country. That's the story of one Iraqi family that, with the help from the Red Cross, is making...Tags: American Red Cross, Human Interest, Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
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Iraqi Shi'ites flock to Assad's side as sectarian split widens
ReutersBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Among the Iranian pilgrims, foreign executives and tourists in the departure lounge at Baghdad airport, a group of young Iraqis prepare to wage religious war in Syria - not for the rebels trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, National Government, Islam
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U.N. recommends bringing Iraq closer to ending 1990s sanctions
ReutersUNITED NATIONS, June 18 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday recommended bringing Iraq one step closer to ending all U.N. sanctions imposed on Baghdad more than two decades ago after former leader Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait In...Tags: United Nations, Government, Iraq, Ban Ki-moon, Kuwait
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Michael Hastings' death remains under investigation
Authorities are continuing to sort out the details of an auto accident that apparently claimed the life of award-winning journalist Michael Hastings. The death of the 33-year-old Hastings was announced by his employer, BuzzFeed, which said he died in...
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Michael Hastings dies at 33; his article led general to resign
Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to two of his...Tags: Afghanistan, Motorvehicle Accidents, Kate Mather, Rolling Stone, International Military Interventions
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Suicide bomber kills 7 in Shi'ite mosque in Iraqi capital-police
ReutersBAGHDAD, June 18 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing at least seven worshippers, police said. More than 20 people were wounded in the attack in the al-Qahira district of northern...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bombings, Suicide
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Death toll from twin suicide bombs in Baghdad rises to 29 - medics
ReutersBAGHDAD, June 18 (Reuters) - The death toll from two apparently coordinated suicide bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital rose to 29, medics said on Tuesday. The first bomber detonated his charge at a checkpoint 100 metres (yards) from a Shi'ite Muslim...Tags: Suicide
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Twin suicide bombs kill 29 in Baghdad
ReutersBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two coordinated suicide bombings at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Baghdad killed at least 29 worshippers at noon prayers on Tuesday, medics said. The first bomber detonated his charge at a checkpoint about 100 meters (yards) away from...Tags: United Nations, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Wars and Interventions, Minority Groups, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Iraqi Kurdistan gives Turkish company six oil exploration blocks
ReutersISTANBUL, June 18 (Reuters) - Local authorities have given an unnamed Turkish company licenses to explore for oil in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to a report, a move that could anger the central government in Baghdad already worried about the region's...Tags: Energy Resources, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Chevron Corportion, Petroleum Industry
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Ashton says to keep urging Iran on nuclear program
ReutersBAGHDAD (Reuters) - The European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Monday she will continue to urge Iran to build confidence in its nuclear program after the election of moderate cleric Hassan Rohani as its new president. "Now we will...Tags: European Union, Iran, Nuclear Policy, Iran's Nuclear Program, Politics
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Two bombings kill at least 10 in Iraq - police
ReutersBAGHDAD, June 17 (Reuters) - A bomb in a restaurant killed seven people in Iraq on Monday and a suicide bomber dressed in police uniform killed a further three, police and medics said. The restaurant bomb was in Taji, 20km (12 miles) north of the capital...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq, Bombings, Suicide
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