Influential Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr met Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on May 1 to discuss the political process in his country, government officials said.
Iraq's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs is offering certified English-language courses to young graduates in an effort to boost their employment opportunities, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq reports.
The death toll from twin car bomb blasts in a crowded Baghdad market has risen to 51, police said, and the country's main Sunni political party condemned the attack on a heavily Shi'ite Muslim area.
While he said he is "gravely concerned" about the situation in Pakistan, U.S. President Barack Obama says he is confident in the security of the country's nuclear arsenal and believes Pakistan's army is beginning to realize that homegrown militants and not India pose the biggest threat to the country's stability. Obama spoke to reporters on his 100th day in office.
The list of urgent problems facing U.S. President Barack Obama is no shorter than it was on January 20, but even critics acknowledge it's been a whirlwind start. And Obama has not let the economic crisis prevent him from tackling important foreign-policy initiatives.
Forty-two political parties and dozens of candidates will begin campaigning on April 29 for the 111 seats in the Kurdish region's parliament, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq (RFI) reports.
Iraqi authorities say they have arrested a policeman and six others accused of being Al-Qaeda members who staged car bombings in Baghdad the day before a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama.
Seven suspected Al-Qaeda insurgents were killed in clashes with U.S. forces in a largely Sunni Arab province of Iraq, the U.S. military has said.
The growing instability on the European Union's eastern borders was uppermost on the minds of the bloc's foreign ministers as they gathered in Luxembourg. Discussionsl focused in particular on crises in Moldova and Ukraine, in recognition of the importance of those countries to the EU's outreach to the east. The ministers also fine-tuned the bloc's position ahead of two key summits in Prague -- one on its Eastern Partnership initiative, and the other on Caspian region energy issues.
Iraq considers a U.S. military raid that killed two people a crime and wants U.S. forces to hand over those responsible to the courts, an Iraqi official has said.
In Baghdad amid a sharp rise in civilian deaths, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells Iraqis there is "nothing more important than to have a united Iraq." The trip comes little over a month before U.S. troops are expected to withdraw from Iraqi cities.
Senior U.S. officials say Washington is working "furiously" to develop a civilian reconstruction mechanism to be deployed in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. The move traces an apparent shift in U.S. policy, introduced by President Barack Obama, aimed at broadening the spectrum of Washington's responses to global crises.
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