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Baghdad- Albawaba A?suicide car bomb exploded near Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s party headquarters Monday, killing?two police officers and two civilians and wounding 24 others, police said. The blast near the headquarters of the Iraqi National Accord party occurred at 9:45 a.m. in the capital’s western district of Harithiya. Police …
Read More »Minority Christian Groups Want More Parliamentary Clout
Minority Christian groups are hoping for a new electoral law that leaves them less dependent in the Parliamentary elections on the country’s major sects, as several Christian minorities – the Copts, Assyrians, Syriacs and others – are now represented collectively by a single deputy in Parliament. The May elections may …
Read More »Syria, Iran to Take Part in Amman Meeting
Amman-Aina Syria and Iran on Monday officially confirmed their participation in Thursday’s meeting here of Iraq’s neighbours, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Sharaa told his Jordanian counterpart Hani Mulki in a telephone call that he is to head his country’s delegation to the conference. Iran’s …
Read More »Powell warns of more Iraq attacks
US Secretary of State Colin Powell has warned of more violence in Iraq in the run up to the country’s elections at the end of the month Baghdad-BBC He spoke after at least 23 people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a bus carrying Iraqi soldiers. The …
Read More »Syria lets resident Iraqis vote
Syrie-BBC Syria will allow Iraqis living in the country to cast ballots for the election in Iraq on 30 January. The Syrian government signed an agreement with the International Organization for Migration, which will run an out-of-country voting scheme. This will allow Iraqis to register and vote at an election …
Read More »Asia’s Tsunami Death Toll Hits 150,000 – U.N.
BANDA ACEH-Indonesia-Reuters Some 150,000 people are now known to have been killed by Asia’s tsunami, U.N. officials said on Monday, as helicopters and elephants were used to find and feed survivors and shift the rubble of razed towns. Aid workers struggled to help thousands huddled in makeshift camps on Indonesia’s …
Read More »Tsunami aid at two billion dollars but survivors still waiting
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -AFPAid pledges for Asia’s tsunami victims reached two billion dollars on a tide of New Year sympathy, but the United Nations warned it would take weeks for help to reach many survivors and that the death toll would likely rise to 150,000.While the confirmed death toll from …
Read More »1.5 Million Assyrian-Iraqis Fear Marginalization in Upcoming Iraq Elections
(AINA) — The upcoming Iraqi National Assembly elections slated for January 30 have placed the Assyrian Christian population (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs) in a dire predicament. Assyrian leaders had hoped to capitalize on voter turnout both in Iraq and in the Diaspora where up to one half of …
Read More »Tsunami recovery ‘to take years’
Tsumi-BBC Areas hit by the Asian tsunami could take up to 10 years to recover, the UN secretary general has warned. Kofi Annan spoke of the “sheer complexity” of the relief effort, which is spread across a dozen nations. Aid supplies are piling up in regional warehouses, but in some …
Read More »Desperate struggle to help millions as tsunami toll passes 125,000
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – AFP Desperate relief workers are struggling to get food and water to the millions of Asia‘s tsunami victims facing starvation and disease as the death toll passes 125,000, from what the UN has called “an unprecedented global catastrophe”.Urging a matching “unprecedented global response”, UN Secretary General …
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