AP - The Iraqi government has banned candidates in upcoming provincial elections from using pictures in their campaign materials of people not running for office, the government’s spokesman said Thursday.
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Time.com - With the economy and Iraq topping voter concerns, abortion has receded into the political background. As a TIME poll shows, that has put the Catholic vote up for grabs
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Reuters - U.S. officials condoned Hunt Oil Co
efforts to obtain an exploration deal with Iraq’s Kurdish
regional government, contrary to public statements discouraging
it, according to documents cited by a congressional committee.
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AFP - Australia’s former foreign minister Alexander Downer, one of the most visible supporters of US President George W. Bush’s war in Iraq, announced his retirement from politics Thursday.
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AFP - John McCain’s campaign raised the stakes ahead of White House rival Barack Obama’s expected trip to Iraq, saying the Democrat’s plans for immediate troops withdrawals ignored security gains.
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AP - As of Wednesday, July 2, 2008, at least 4,113 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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AP - Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President Bush promised Wednesday to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan by year’s end. He conceded that June was a “tough month” in the nearly seven-year-old war.
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McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Iraq’s foreign minister said Wednesday that the wide gap between Iraq and the United States over the future of U.S. forces in Iraq had narrowed after the American side had shown “excellent flexibility” on some key issues that had threatened to derail or postpone the accord.
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Reuters - Iraq is expecting visits soon from
Jordan’s King Abdullah and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip
Erdogan, easing its regional diplomatic isolation, the foreign
minister said on Wednesday.
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Reuters - An Iraqi Kurdish imam and a
Bangladeshi-American pizzeria owner on Wednesday lost an appeal
of their convictions for plotting to kill a Pakistani diplomat
in what turned out to be an FBI sting operation.
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