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  • 32 die in Iraq suicide bombing

    At least 32 people were killed and over 50 injured in twin suicide bomb attacks at a mosque in the Iraqi capital, an interior ministry official said. The attacks occurred around midday at the al-Husseiniyah mosque in al-Qahira district, when two suicide bombers blew themselves up during prayers, Xinhua reported. The official said the two attackers first shot dead the guards of the mosque with ...

  • 15 killed in suicide bombing at Baghdad Shiite mosque

    Baghdad, June 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Up to 15 people were killed and 30 wounded in a suicide bomb attack at a Shiite mosque in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source said. The attack occurred around midday when a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden vest among worshippers at a mosque in al- Qahira district in northern Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of ...

  • Iraq claims legal ruling expected

    Relatives want the right to sue for negligence and to make claims under human rights legislation.The Supreme Court - the highest court in the UK - analysed arguments from lawyers representing relatives and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) at a hearing in London in February.Judges in the Court of Appeal and the High Court have already considered the issues.In October, appeal judges said relatives ...

  • Total acquires 80 stake in Kurdistan block

    France's oil major Total has acquired an 80% stake in an exploration block in Iraq's Kurdistan, in a move that reinforces the company's position in the semi-autonomous region where crude reserves are plentiful, Reuters has reported. According to the deal, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) will own the remaining 20%. "This participation in an operated exploration block ...

  • Dozens die in blast at Iraqi mosque

    BAGHDAD -- Two suicide bombers targeted a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, one blowing himself up at a nearby checkpoint while the other slipped inside during prayers. The blasts killed 34 people, Iraqi officials ...

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

The unwieldiness of the title of Peter Weirs Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World owes to the fact that it takes its high-seas adventure yarn from two of Patricks OBrians popular series of books following the exploits of Capt. Jack Aubrey of the early 19th-century British Royal Navy. Embodied on screen by Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind), who has gained weight and grown o ... ...

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  • 10 killed 53 wounded in Iraqs violence

    BAGHDAD, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Ten people were killed and 53 wounded in separate shootings and bombings in central and northern Iraq on Thursday, the police said. Up to five people, including two policemen, were killed and 30 wounded when two roadside bombs detonated near a police patrol in Nahrawan area, in the southeastern part of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source told ...

  • Supreme Court ruling on Iraq damages

    Supreme Court judges will rule later on whether relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq can sue the government for damages under the Human Rights Act. The case was brought by relatives of three men killed by roadside bombs while in Snatch Land Rovers in Iraq. Last year, the Court of Appeal accepted government argument that battlefields were beyond the reach ...

  • U.N. recommends bringing Iraq closer to ending 1990s sanctions

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday recommended bringing Iraq one step closer to ending all U.N. sanctions imposed on Baghdad more than two decades ago after former leader Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait In 1990. Despite the toppling of Saddam in 2003 after a U.S.-led invasion, the United Nations has not fully lifted the sanctions. U.S.-led troops drove Iraq ...

  • Australia v Iraq what we learned from the World Cup qualifier

    For 48 hours before the game, a major Sydney road was rechristened as the Tim Cahill Expressway. This was a man who had scored his country's first ever World Cup goal and at times had dragged the team through qualification. For years, he has been the source of goals when all others had run dry. Yet with 13 minutes remaining ...

  • Journalist Michael Hastings Killed in Car Crash

    "We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone. Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians. He wrote stories that would otherwise have gone unwritten, and without him there are great stories that will go untold. Michael ...

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