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41 mins ago - Mortar shells slammed into an Interior Ministry prison Monday, killing at least five inmates and wounding 25, the U.S. military and Iraqi officials said. Separately, a fire broke out at one of Iraq's main refineries, but the U.S. said it was an industrial accident - not an attack, as Iraqi officials insisted.
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4 hrs ago - Oil prices edged up Monday as traders tried to figure how last week's U.S. jobs report might affect this week's interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve.
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4 hrs ago - Mortar shells slammed into an Interior Ministry prison Monday, killing at least seven inmates and wounding 23, police and a hospital official said. Separately, a fire broke out at one of Iraq's main oil refineries, but the U.S. military said it was due to an industrial accident, not an attack.
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6 hrs ago - China's biggest refiner, Sinopec, and Iran have signed a $2 billion agreement on developing the Yadavaran oil field, reports said Monday, firming Beijing's business links with Tehran despite U.S. calls for sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.
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6 hrs ago - Oil prices slipped Monday, extending a decline that began Friday after a November U.S. jobs report turned out to be less robust than expected.
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7 hrs ago - Oil prices slipped Monday, extending a decline that began Friday after a November U.S. jobs report turned out to be less robust than expected.
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8 hrs ago - U.S. and Iranian experts will hold a meeting next week to discuss security issues ahead of an expected round of formal talks on Iraq's stability, Iraq's foreign minister said Monday.
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8 hrs ago - Oil dropped below $88 a barrel in Asian trade Monday, extending a decline that began Friday after a November U.S. jobs report turned out to be less robust than expected.
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14 hrs ago - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that the new U.S. intelligence report concluding that Iran has given up its nuclear weapons program will not change Israel's view that Iran is trying to develop a nuclear bomb, his first comment on the report.
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17 hrs ago - China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, and Iran have signed a long awaited agreement for development of the Yadavaran oilfield, the official Xinhua News Agency and Iranian reports said Monday.
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20 hrs ago - The Iraqi government on Sunday said the U.S. needed to take bolder steps to interact directly with Iran in order to improve security across the Middle East.
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20 hrs ago - Hundreds of Iranian students expressed their anger over a government crackdown on activists in a protest Sunday at Tehran University, the second such demonstration in less than a week, witnesses and state radio said.
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20 hrs ago - Iraq's defense minister promised on Sunday to wage a new crackdown in a volatile province northeast of Baghdad where militants are trying to regroup after being routed from their urban stronghold there last summer.
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22 hrs ago - Intelligence findings that Iran stood down on nuclear weapons development have sharpened the debate in Washington as well as the presidential campaign over whether U.S. officials should talk directly with Iran after shunning its leaders for a generation.
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1 day ago - Iran is studying a proposal from Iraqi officials to hold security talks with the United States in January, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
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1 day ago - Iran has sent a formal protest note to Washington for allegedly spying on its nuclear activities, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday in the wake of the latest U.S. intelligence report on the country's weapons program.
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1 day ago - Umm Nasser sits on a curb in northern Iraq, trying to decide where her home is.
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1 day ago - Pentagon chief Robert Gates lashed out at Iran on Saturday for seeking to cause chaos "everywhere you turn" regardless of the blood spilled and said its neighbors must demand that Tehran renounce any intention of pursuing nuclear weapons.
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1 day ago - Gulf Arab countries challenged Defense Secretary Robert Gates on American policies toward Iran and Israel Saturday, after he urged them to force Tehran to stop uranium enrichment.
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2 days ago - Persian Gulf nations must demand that Iran come clean about its past nuclear ambitions and openly vow to not develop such weapons in the future, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday.
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2 days ago - Persian Gulf nations must demand that Iran come clean about its past nuclear ambitions and openly vow to not develop such weapons in the future, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday.
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2 days ago - Parliament on Friday again failed to meet on electing a new president, as Lebanon's factions deadlocked over a tangle of issues, including an amendment to the constitution and the shape of a future government.
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2 days ago - President Bush's U.N. ambassador acknowledged Friday that a new intelligence report concluding Iran stopped nuclear weapons development in 2003 has created fresh obstacles for him as the administration seeks new international sanctions against Tehran.
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2 days ago - Defense Secretary Robert Gates planned to tell Gulf countries Saturday they must work together to help the U.S. counter Iranian threats, including Tehran's ballistic missiles and meddling in Iraq. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States still wants new sanctions.
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2 days ago - Baseball is about to get its official boxscore on the Steroids Era. It's the Mitchell Report, the findings of former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell's 20-month investigation into performance-enhancing drug use that has tarnished some of the game's greatest stars and records.
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2 days ago - Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, unaccustomed to the national spotlight, is squirming under the glare.
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