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Iraqi 'devil-worshippers' cancel annual pilgrimage due to unrest


Saturday, 7 October, 2006 , 14:07 AFP — Iraq's Yazidis, a minority religious sect who have been branded devil worshippers by suspicious neighbours, cancelled an annual pilgrimage Saturday over fears for devotees' safety.

Slain Kurdish MP buried in northern Iraq


Saturday, 7 October, 2006 , 11:13 AFP — Assassinated Kurdish lawmaker Mohammed Redha Mahmud was laid to rest on Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah, mourned as a victim of the country's "blind sectarian war".

150 Kurdish immigrants disembark in southern Italy


Saturday, 7 October, 2006 , 06:48 AFP — Around 150 clandestine Kurdish immigrants landed overnight in Calabria, southern Italy, sea rescue services said Saturday.

Rice urges Kurds to work for peaceful, unified Iraq


Friday, 6 October, 2006 , 18:22 AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met the leaders of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Friday, urging them to cooperate with Iraqi Arabs in building a peaceful and unified country.

Two Turkish soldiers wounded in first clash since ceasefire


Friday, 6 October, 2006 , 13:26 AFP — Two soldiers were wounded in eastern Turkey in the first clash with Kurdish rebels since the unilaterial declaration of a ceasefire five days earlier by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, security sources said Friday.

Rice leaves Iraq after delay due to aircraft fault


Friday, 6 October, 2006 , 11:41 AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left Iraq on Friday after a delay of more than two hours due to aircraft technical problems, her spokesman said.

Rice departure from Iraq delayed by aircraft fault


Friday, 6 October, 2006 , 10:02 AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was stuck in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil Friday because the plane she flew in on from Baghdad earlier in the day was damaged on landing, a member of her entourage said.

Rice tells Iraq's Kurds to share their oil


Friday, 6 October, 2006 , 08:53 AFP — US Secretary of State Rice continued her surprise visit to Iraq on Friday with a trip to the Kurdish autonomous region in the north for talks on sharing of the country's oil wealth.

Iraq parliament condemns assassination of Kurdish colleague


Friday, 6 October, 2006 , 07:28 AFP — Iraq's parliament condemned the assassination of a Kurdish deputy on Friday following the discovery of his body and that of his bodyguard in a Sunni neighborhood.

Rice visits Kurdish leader in northern Iraq


Friday, 6 October, 2006 , 07:13 AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived Friday in Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan, for talks with regional president Massoud Barzani on efforts to ensure that Iraq's oil resources benefit the entire country, an AFP journalist traveling with her said.