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The Champaign News-Gazette - Fri Nov 27, 11:18 am ET
BAGHDAD (AP) – A top Iraqi official warned Friday "it is too early" to claim a breakthrough in a political crisis over the fragile democracy's election law, all but assuring that a national vote will be pushed past its deadline. The Obama administration was banking on the elections to be held by the end of January, as required under the nation's constitution, to begin the withdrawal of about 115 ...
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KENS 5 San Antonio - Fri Nov 27, 10:35 am ET
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Boston Globe - Fri Nov 27, 9:33 am ET
A top Iraqi official warned Friday "it is too early" to claim a breakthrough in a political crisis over the fragile democracy's election law, all but assuring that a national vote will be pushed past its deadline.
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Denver Post - Fri Nov 27, 3:26 am ET
Iraq's political factions reached a tentative agreement Thursday on a contested law to organize parliamentary elections next year, potentially pulling the country back from crisis and avoiding another veto that could have delayed the vote for months.
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Chattanooga Times Free Press - Fri Nov 27, 3:14 am ET
Iraq’s prime minister on Thursday vowed there will be no delay in the withdrawal of U.S. troops despite an Iraqi political dispute that is expected to force a January vote to be postponed.
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Sparta Expositor - Fri Nov 27, 1:40 am ET
Federal charges in connection with a 2007 shooting incident in Baghdad have been dismissed against Nicholas Slatten.
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International Herald Tribune - Thu Nov 26, 2:05 pm ET
Iraqi leaders worked to avoid delays to January elections, warning that disagreements could still unravel any deal.
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The Belvoir Eagle - Thu Nov 26, 12:22 pm ET
As U.S. troops in western Iraq help to prepare for national elections in January, an American commander in the former insurgent hotbed of Anbar Province said any potential uptick in violence is unlikely to derail the balloting.
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Austin American-Statesman - Thu Nov 26, 8:24 am ET
They met in Iraq in March 2008. Mike Yonan, born to a Catholic family in Iraq , was an interpreter for the U.S. Army . Maj. George Davis was on his third tour of duty, assigned to a U.S. Army military transition team. Almost immediately, they said, they knew they could trust each other.
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OfficialWire - Thu Nov 26, 7:13 am ET
U.S. intelligence officials worry the Syrian border with Iraq will become a terrorist safe haven like the Pakistani tribal areas, an intelligence review stated.
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EARTHtimes.org - Thu Nov 26, 6:56 am ET
Baghdad - The crude oil pipeline linking the Turkish port of Ceyhan with oil fields near the disputed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk will remain offline for at least another week, an oil company worker said Thursday. (We) continue to repair the damag...
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 4:14 am ET
Lawsuits, rules that allow the government to shut TV stations that promote violence and other signs of creeping censorship are raising fears of a crackdown on Iraq's often partisan media ahead of an election next year.
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New York Times - Thu Nov 26, 1:38 am ET
Google’s chief executive said his company would create a virtual copy of the collections of Iraq’s National Museum and make the images available online by early 2010.
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Detroit News - Thu Nov 26, 1:13 am ET
A Michigan National Guardsman frees a child from wounds of his youth during his first Thanksgiving in America.
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CNN - Wed Nov 25, 4:05 pm ET
Gunmen clad in Iraqi army uniforms stormed a house Wednesday north of Baghdad and killed six members of a family, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.