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Interview BEIRUT- Daily StarMinority 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 …

Paris – AFP French President Jacques Chirac on Friday warned journalists to stay out of Iraq, two days after a reporter went missing in Baghdad and two weeks after the release of two correspondents held hostage for months. Chirac said he was “worried” about the fate of Florence Aubenas, 43, …

VOA – Aina An estimated one million Iraqis living outside Iraq are expected to take part in the country’s elections for a transitional national assembly at the end of this month. The International Organization for Migration’s Iraq Out-of-Country Voting Program is working to inform and register Iraqi expatriates who are …

WASHINGTON – ReutersPresident Bush said on Friday the U.S. military will do its best to give every Iraqi citizen the chance to vote on Jan. 30 but acknowledged that guerrilla action could disrupt voting in four provinces. “Four of the 18 provinces are places where the terrorists are trying to …

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia-AFPUnited Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan Friday toured the devastation from Asia‘s tsunamis as the world body took charge of the relief operation for the disaster which left over 165,000 dead.A day after making an impassioned plea for almost a billion dollars in immediate aid, Annan flew into …

BAGHDAD- Reuters Seven U.S. soldiers were killed Thursday when their Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit an explosive device on a road in northwestern Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. The group was on a routine security patrol when the attack occurred at 6 p.m. local time, said Captain Patricia …

? Deutsche-Welle -Aina The head of the Christian Social Union (CSU), Edmund Stoiber and new Chairman of the ruling French Conservatives, Nicolas Sarkozy have made a mutual display of their opposition to Turkey joining the European Union Joining Stoiber at a CSU meeting in the Alpine location of Wildbad Kreuth, …

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has announced that it has signed an agreement with the Syrian authorities, allowing Iraqis living there to be able to vote in their country’s upcoming election on 30 January. At a press conference in the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday it was announced that a …

Iraq’s elections have been eagerly awaited by Iraq’s majority Shia population, which looks set to dominate a democratically elected parliament, but the timing has proved unpopular with the once-dominant Sunnis, who fear they will not be adequately represented in the new government. These fears were compounded in late December when …

PILGRIMAGE: The EU is encouraging Assyrian families to return to the region and save one of the world’s most ancient Christian communities Nine-year-old Ninua Saliba played hide-and-seek outside a seventh century church as village men drank tea, chatted in a language similar to Jesus’ and waited for a Christmas visit …