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  • Syrian FM on surprise visit to Baghdad

    BAGHDAD: Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem landed in Baghdad on Sunday on an unannounced visit for talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a senior government official said.It was unclear how long the visit would last and whether Muallem would meet with any other Iraqi officials."The foreign minister of Syria, Walid Muallem, arrived in Baghdad at the head of a Syrian ...

  • Iran Khodro to assemble cars in Iraq

    Iranian carmaker Iran Khodro is set to set up an assembly line with the capacity of 30,000 units per year in the Iraqi city of Iskandariya by next month, Mehr news has reported. The move is the result of preliminary agreements signed three years ago, said Iran Khodro deputy director for exports Abdol'azim ...

  • 5 soldiers killed in western Iraq

    Five soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in the Iraqi volatile province of Anbar on Saturday, a provincial police source said.The attack occurred in the afternoon when a roadside bomb went off near an Iraqi army patrol near the town of Heet, some 160 km west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing five soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, the source told Xinhua on condition of ...

  • 6 Iranian pilgrims killed in car bombing in Iraq

    Six Iranian pilgrims were killed and some 20 wounded in a car bomb explosion in Salahudin province north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Saturday, a provincial police source said.The attack occurred in the afternoon when a booby-trapped car struck a bus carrying Iranian Shiite pilgrims near the city of Samarra, some 110 km north of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.The ...

  • UK must hold separate inquiries into each Iraqi civilian deaths high сourt rules

    UK The British high court has ruled that 161 killings by the British military should be subject to hearings modeled on a coroner's inquest. The ground breaking judgment may decide how the British military is able to carry out operations in the future. In practice a series of hearings, possibly amounting to more than 100, are likely to be held as a result of the judgment; the consequence ...

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Lorna's Silence (Le silence de Lorna) [DVD]

Lorna's Silence (Le silence de Lorna) [DVD]

In Lornas Silence (Le silence de Lorna), filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne once again take their unadorned, documentary-like approach to a dark back corner of European society, in this case the lucrative trade of sham marriages for citizenship. One might ... ...

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  • New book tells untold stories from Iraq

    Photojournalist Michael Kamber joins MSNBC's Craig Melvin and fellow photojournalists Carolyn Cole and Ed Kashi to talk about his new book, "The Untold Stories From Iraq: Photojournalists on War" (University of Texas Press, May ...

  • Baghdad likes to live from crisis to crisis Civil war looms in Iraq

    As Iraq edges closer to all-out sectarian civil war, with 400 people killed so far this month, Najmaldin Karim, governor of one of the country's most violent provinces, is pessimistic about the ability of the government in Baghdad to prevent greater turmoil. "This government is incapable," he says. "It likes to live from crisis to crisis, without managing any one of them. You ...

  • How Baghdad Fuels Iraqs Sectarian Fire

    The Iraqi government has hurled the country to the brink of a new civil war. In under a month, Baghdad launched a vicious assault on a Sunni protest camp, resulting in 44 deaths; executed 21 alleged Sunni terrorists in one day, and suspended the licenses of 10 satellite channels, 9 of them deemed pro-Sunni. Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s message to his country’s extremely ...

  • Car bomb explosions in Baghdad kill more than 60

    At least 70 people have been killed in a wave of car bombs in Iraq, raising concerns the country may slip back into civil war. NBC's Annabel Roberts and Richard O'Kelly ...

  • Iraq bombs kill scores as violence spreads

    At least 70 people have been killed in a wave of car bombs in Iraq, raising concerns the country may slip back into civil war. NBC's Annabel Roberts and Richard O'Kelly ...

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