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  • Socceroos v Iraq Tim Cahill confident of World Cup 2014 qualification as pressure mounts on Australia

    Sydney 2000 The pressure of qualifying for Brazil is not suffocating Tim Cahill or the Socceroos as they aim to turn Sydney into their World Cup dream factory for the second time in eight years.After nearly three weeks in camp, Australia say they are ready to rise to the challenge of beating Iraq at Sydney's Olympic stadium on Tuesday night and secure a World Cup finals berth.Superstar ...

  • World Briefing | Middle East 15 Die in Iraq Bomb Attacks

    Three bombings in Iraq killed 15 people on Monday, officials said. A bomb left inside a restaurant in Taji, which serves travelers on the highway linking Baghdad to several northern Sunni-majority cities, killed eight people, including two women and a 12-year-old child, the police said. Twenty-four others were wounded. Also in Taji, a bomb placed inside a minibus killed two commuters and wounded ...

  • 15 killed 90 wounded in fresh attacks in Iraq

    BAGHDAD, May 21 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 people were killed and 90 others wounded in violent attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, said the police. A car bomb went off near the Abu Ghraib Grand Mosque, a Sunni mosque in Abu Ghraib area, 25 km west of the capital Baghdad, on Tuesday evening, killing eight people and injuring 15 others, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The ...

  • Chevron Completes Deal to Acquire Iraqs Kurdistan Oil Block

    Chevron Corp. has completed a transaction to acquire another oil exploration deal in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdistan region, the U.S. company said in a statement Monday. Kurdistan has angered the central government in Baghdad by signing contracts directly with the likes of Chevron, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Total SA, providing lucrative production-sharing deals and better operating ...

  • Egypt Sudan to buy oil shipments from Iraq on credit

    Iraq has agreed in principle to provide both Egypt and Sudan with crude oil, to be purchased on credit, Mena has reported. Iraq will start sending the shipments once the two countries obtain letters of credit from international banks and Iraq's cabinet issues its final approval of the ...

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Straw Dogs (2011)

Straw Dogs (2011)

Sam Peckinpahs Straw Dogs (1971) was one of the most controversial films of its era, primarily because its complex depictions of the extremities of human violence were largely misunderstood, fueled in no small part by the directors own penchant for goading his critics and purpos ... ...

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  • Bomb explosions suicide attack kill at least 12 people in central Iraq

    An Iraqi man and Iraqi security force members inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 16, 2013. Most of the car bombs hit Shiite-majority areas and were the cause of most of the casualties. The blasts hit half a dozen cities and towns in the south and center of the country. (AP Photo/Nabil ...

  • Report Iran to send 4000 Revolutionary Guards to aid Syria regime

    As Western powers prepare to provide weapons to rebels in Syria's civil war, Iran is reported to be planning to send a 4,000-man contingent of Revolutionary Guards to beef up President Bashar Assad's forces. Britain's Independent newspaper reports Tehran "is now fully committed to preserving Assad's regime, according to pro-Iranian sources who have been deeply involved ...

  • Video Seven killed in Iraq restaurant blast

    Seven people in the town of Taji north of Baghdad are killed when a bomb explodes at restaurant, one of three blasts on Monday which killed at least twelve people ahead of provincial elections. Mana Rabiee ...

  • Three bombings in Iraq kill 12 injure 50

    Three separate bombings in central Iraq Monday killed at least 12 people and left more than 50 others wounded, officials said. In al-Taji, which is about 12 miles from Baghdad, at least seven people were killed when a bomb exploded inside a popular coffee shop, CNN reported. About 20 others were injured by the blast. Two people were killed and three others were wounded when a roadside bomb was ...

  • Syria Is Not Iraq The Case for a No-fly Zone

    A Free Syrian Army fighter carries a homemade rocket to be launched towards Nairab military airport, which is controlled by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Aleppo, on June 14, 2013. (Reuters) President Obama's decision to arm Syrian rebels -- after resisting such a course for nearly two years -- has come under some withering criticism. Marc Lynch, who has long ...

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