AP - European Union countries responding to appeals from the United Nations are ready to take up to 10,000 more Iraqi refugees and will send a mission to the Middle East to identify the most vulnerable people, EU ministers said Thursday.
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AFP - The economy, including Wall Street’s current troubles, overtook the war in Iraq as Americans’ top concern, six weeks ahead of the US presidential election, a Harris Interactive poll showed Wednesday.
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AP - At a training field in southern Germany, a group of New Zealand soldiers are practicing breaking into buildings and then making instant decisions on whether the occupants are friendly or hostile.
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AP - A military interrogation expert, Air Force Col. Steven Kleinman, told Congress on Thursday that he witnessed interrogations of Iraqi detainees that he considers violations of the Geneva Conventions.
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AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has promised to improve Iraqi armed forces to the level that they no longer need support from US-led troops, his office said on Thursday.
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AFP - Archaeologists will soon begin a dig at a site in the southern Iraqi province of Muthanna that may date back to the Sumerian period, local heritage chief Tawfiq Mohammed said on Thursday.
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AP - Iraqi police on Thursday raised the death toll in an ambush against Iraqi forces raiding a Sunni village northeast of Baghdad to 35, most of them commandos sent to the area as part of a U.S.-backed military crackdown.
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AFP - The World Health Organisation said on Thursday that cholera cases in Iraq appear to have fallen sharply this year, though it warned against complacency and demanded accurate reporting to prevent any further spread of the disease.
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Reuters - The holy Shi’ite city of Najaf has come to wield immense influence on Iraqi politics and whoever can harness that power could dominate upcoming local elections and set the tone for Iraq’s nascent democracy.
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AFP - Iraqi forces launched a major hunt for Al-Qaeda gunmen in the restive province of Diyala on Thursday after 35 people were killed in an ambush of a police convoy.
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