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CNN
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Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie is visiting Iraq to boost what she sees as lagging efforts to deal with the problems of 2 million "very very vulnerable" internally displaced people in the wartorn country. "There doesn't seem to be a real coherent pla..
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Washington Post
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Iraq has ordered $100 million worth of light military equipment from China for its police force, contending that the United States was unable to provide the materiel and is too slow to deliver arms shipments, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said yesterday...
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USA Today
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President Bush got a boost Wednesday from his most reliable foreign ally: Australian Prime Minister John Howard pledged to keep hundreds of Australian troops in Iraq as long as the United States needs them.
"They will not be reduced or withdrawn," Howa..
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BBC News
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Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has admitted that securing oil supplies is a key factor behind the presence of Australian troops in Iraq.
He said maintaining "resource security" in the Middle East was a priority.
But PM John Howard has pl..
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Washington Post
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A federal judge yesterday ordered the military to temporarily refrain from awarding the largest security contract in Iraq. The order followed an unusual series of events set off when a U.S. Army veteran filed a protest against the government practice of h..
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BBC News
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has made a surprise visit to the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Mr Blair is due to have talks with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.
"He's in Baghdad against a backdrop of the continuing major security opera..
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CNN
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Britain's Prince Harry will not serve in Iraq as a troop commander because of "a number of specific threats" against him, the UK's top general says.
A spokesperson for the 22-year-old prince says he is "very disappointed" by the decision.
Chief of t..
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FOX News
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Treasury chief Gordon Brown on Friday launched his campaign to become Britain's next prime minister and win back voters disenchanted after a decade of Labour Party rule.
Brown said his government would honor Britain's commitments in Iraq but acknowledg..
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BBC News
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Iran says it will attend a key meeting on Iraq's security situation.
A delegation headed by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will attend the conference later this week in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza R..
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Times Online
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AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first “large-scale” terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report.
Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Iraqi militia groups have drawn up detailed plans to seize Prince Harry as a hostage when he arrives in Iraq next month, The Observer can reveal.
Some of the most notorious paramilitary factions in southern Iraq claim they have informants placed inside..
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News.com.au
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Saudi Arabia has decided to write off 80 per cent of the more than $US15 billion ($18 billion) it is owed by Iraq, Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said.
As part of its efforts to help Iraq rebuild, the Bush administration has been pressing Iraq'..
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Reuters
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President Bush should scrap his unilateral approach and respect religious diversity in his "war on terror" to resolve troubles in Iraq, a senior Chinese official said in comments published on Thursday...
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Reuters
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The image of the United States has deteriorated around the world in the past year because of issues such as Iraq and prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, according to a poll by the BBC World Service released on Tuesday...
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Monsters and Critics
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Analysts and politicians in Europe are unhappy about U.S. President George W. Bush`s new Iraq strategy, which they say will fail as a last-ditch effort to bring stability to the restive country...
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Guardian Unlimited
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Nehad has the hunched look of a man who has lived with fear for years. It was to escape fear that he fled Iraq for Europe in 2003, hoping to start a new life beyond the reach of the torture and prisons of Saddam Hussein's regime in northern Iraq. But aft..
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Washington Post
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For a little more than $38 billion, the United States and its contractors in Iraq have provided 4.6 million people with access to water. They have distributed seeds to Iraqi farmers, improving wheat harvests. With electricity-generating capacity now above..
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Reuters
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President Bush was under pressure from some of his closest allies on Monday to turn to arch enemies Iran and Syria for help in stabilizing Iraq amid Iraqi government paralysis and fears of all-out civil war...
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AOL News
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The U.S. government's office in central Iraq came under mortar fire early Saturday, an attack that touched off a blaze in part of the complex, Iraqi police said. There was no immediate word on damage or casualties...
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Independent
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British Muslims have been driven towards extremism and terrorist acts because of the UK's part in the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the head of MI5...
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