US, Iraq reject call for releases
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A British hostage appeared on a video posted on an Islamic Web site yesterday and pleaded for his life as Iraq&#39;s leader and US officials crushed reports that a female Iraqi weapons scientist could be released from jail soon - as demanded by the kidnappers
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The US government is under pressure from political opponents on whether Iraq's poll can be held as planned.
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Iraq put more pressure on the United States on Thursday to pull out security contractor Blackwater from Baghdad but the State Department said no decision had been made on the North Carolina firm.
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The Bush administration has decided that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq are not entitled to the protection of the Geneva Conventions, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
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The Bush administration has decided  that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in  Iraq are not entitled to the protection of the Geneva  Conventions, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
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The White House and Congress failed to strike a deal Friday after exchanging competing offers on an Iraq war spending bill that Democrats said should set a date for U.S. troops to leave
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US forces tried unsuccessfully twice to rescue an Englishman and two US citizens being held hostage, CNN reported Tuesday. Both efforts were guided by intelligence and led US forces to separate sites in Baghdad, officials said.
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Despite a stepped-up commitment from the United States to take in Iraqis who are in danger because they worked for the military, few are signing up to go, officials say.
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Two high-profile women prisoners in American custody will not be released immediately, the US embassy said in Baghdad, despite an earlier announcement by Iraqi authorities.
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Britain on Thursday rejected a claim by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the U.S.-led Iraq war was "illegal" because Washington and its coalition allies never got Security Council backing for the ...
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The Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani, rejected today calls for an international conference to reach a solution to the widening sectarian war in Iraq.
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President Bush said today that the United States needs "a new approach" in Iraq, but he implicitly rejected a key recommendation of a bipartisan panel that issued a hard-hitting report yesterday: the holding of direct talks with Iran and Syria independently of other issues.
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The House on Friday rejected a timetable for pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq after a ferociously partisan debate, forcing lawmakers in both parties to go on record on a major issue in re-election campaigns nationwide.
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Iraq is doing all it can to secure the  release of a British and two U.S. hostages but will not give in  to demands or negotiate with terrorists, Foreign Minister  Hoshiyar Zebari said on Sunday.
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The United States, Britain and Iraq on Friday angrily dismissed a warning from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan that a military offensive in the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah could jeopardize the credibility of upcoming elections in Iraq.
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Iraq's government said one of two women  in U.S. custody would be freed on Wednesday, but insisted the  move was unrelated to the demands of kidnappers who have killed  two Americans and are threatening to kill a Briton.
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MANNHEIM, Germany - The U.S. military judge hearing charges of prisoner abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison rejected a request Tuesday for Secretary of Defense Donald H...