Iraqi Soccer League Finally Kicks Off in Baghdad
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Iraq's domestic soccer league kicked  off Wednesday for the first time since American-led forces  invaded the country to oust dictator Saddam Hussein.
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Iraqis are celebrating their soccer team&#39;s unexpected success at the Olympics. A 1-0 quarterfinal victory against Australia puts the team firmly in the running for a medal.
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League hosts its inaugural draft and plans to kick off later this year with televised and streamed competitions.
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The interim Iraqi national assembly convened for the first time today as Iraq took a small and tentative step toward representative government.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair flew into Baghdad on Monday to lend his support to Iraq&#039;s new leadership as it begins trying to restore security and stem the slide toward civil war.
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With only two months to go until Iraq&#39;s general elections, the local government has yet to devise a plan for registering voters in one of the country&#39;s largest cities.
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Shiite fighters in tracksuits and sneakers unloaded cars full of machine guns, mortars and land mines Monday as a five-day disarmament program kicked off in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City district - a sign of progress in the center of Shiite resistance in Iraq
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British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett arrived in Baghdad evening, her first trip to the country since taking up her post in May, the Foreign Office said.
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Iraqis slowly began returning to the streets of Baghdad when a curfew was lifted on Sunday, four days after the bombing of a revered Shi'ite Muslim mosque to the north sparked fears of reprisal sectarian attacks.
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Iraqi exiles from Australia to the United States began registering on Monday for elections at the end of the month, many of them voting for the first time in a poll they hope will help bring democracy to their country.
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Iraqi Airways resumed international flights for the first time in 14 years, with a plane taking off Saturday from neighboring Jordan for Baghdad and another leaving the Iraqi capital for Damascus, Syria.
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British troops have begun arriving at their new base south of Baghdad, where they are filling in for US forces being sent to fight insurgents, the Ministry of Defence in London said.
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Exiled Iraqis began registering to vote Monday in their homeland's first independent election in nearly 50 years, with dozens arriving at polling stations from Australia to Britain &#151; and many expressing confusion at the process.
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A new Iraqi flag flew for the first time in Baghdad Tuesday morning.
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Iraqis slowly began returning to the streets of Baghdad when a curfew was lifted on Sunday, four days after the bombing of a revered Shi'ite Muslim mosque to the south sparked fears of reprisal sectarian attacks.
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Sunni Muslims marked the beginning of the Eid al-Adha holiday Wednesday, with thousands of worshippers gathering in mosques around Baghdad in an atmosphere of optimism after months of declining violence.
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Residents come out on to the streets to witness the first snowfall in living memory in the Iraqi capital.