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RSS Feed: iraq's rss feed
URL: http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?id=1010
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Iraq's Oil Boom And The Global Market
In a remarkable shift, Iraq's oil exports jumped by 20 percent since January, and the country exported more oil in April than in any month since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990. Energy expert Daniel Yergin discusses how Iraq's oil wealth is driving the Iraqi economy and reshaping the global oil market.
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Politics Touch Obama, Romney Observances Of Bin Laden-Death Anniversary
Eight years ago, it was President George W. Bush who rode national-security to re-election by raising doubts about his 2004 Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, This year, however, the tables have turned. It's the Democrat in the White House who is challenging Republicans on what has been a traditional area of GOP strength.
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VA Struggles To Provide Vets With Mental Health Care
The Department of Veterans Affairs says any veteran who seeks mental health services gets help within days. But a new investigation by the agency's inspector general says the statistics are skewed to make wait times appear shorter. The VA will have a chance at a Senate hearing Wednesday to explain how it's going to do better.
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'A Chance To Start Over': Wounded Vets Ride Again
An annual four-day bike ride organized by the Wounded Warrior Project is being held across the country this week. One Marine says the ride gives them back the camaraderie they had in the military. "You look back and you got guys missing legs, missing arms — it doesn't matter. We're just all riding together."
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Multiple Blasts Hit Baghdad, Northern Iraqi Cities
In all, officials said extremists launched 12 attacks in Baghdad and in northern Iraq, in Kirkuk, Samarra, Dibis and Taji. Additionally, mortars were fired into the northern cities of Beiji and Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, but no injuries were reported there.
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Arab League Holds Summit In Baghdad
Arab leaders were gathering in Baghdad for the first Arab summit in the Iraqi capital in decades. The government has spent half a billion dollars preparing for the meeting --including a huge security operation in a city still the scene of bombings and other attacks.
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Home Front: 'Citizen Soldiers' Start A Transition
Members of the National Guard's 182nd Infantry Regiment recently touched down in Indiana after a long trip and a long year in Afghanistan. Over the next year,
Weekend Edition will follow these men and women through their shift from soldiers to civilians.
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Archaeologists Revisit Iraq
One of the first American archaeological teams to work in Iraq in 20 years has recently returned from a dig on the outskirts of Ur. Team leader Elizabeth Stone discusses the team's findings, and what the artifacts tell us about life in the region thousands of years ago.
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Troops' Mental Health: How Much Is Unknown?
Service members are generally screened before, during and after deployment. But the Army lacks reliable diagnostic tools, according to former Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli. He says what the recent attack on Afghan civilians proves is "just how much we don't know."
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Violent 'Emo Killings' Rattle Iraqi Youth
Young people who identify themselves as so-called Emos are being brutally killed at an alarming rate in Iraq, where militias have distributed hit lists of victims and security forces say they are unable to stop crimes against the subculture that is widely perceived in Iraq as being gay.
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Double Bombing Strikes Near Iraq Restaurant
Officials in Tal Afar said a car parked outside a popular downtown restaurant exploded in the early afternoon. As people rushed to the scene to help, a suicide bomber in the crowd detonated his explosives belt. At least 12 people died.
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