Roundup: International agencies consider to leave Iraq following ...
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Tens of international aid organizations in Iraq have been considering to leave the war-torn country since two Italian women were kidnapped Tuesday.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini was to leave for the Middle East, as Rome pressed on with efforts to win the release of two Italian aid workers kidnapped in Iraq, his ministry said.
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U.S. officials say time is running out for Iraq to root out sectarian militias and purge ministries of corrupt officials.
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Poland will pull its troops out of Iraq by the end of 2005, when UN resolution 1546 endorsing the timetable for political transition in Iraq expires, Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski says.
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One of the world's largest aid  agencies, Care International, has suspended its operations in  Iraq and said Wednesday it might quit altogether after its  British-Iraqi country manager was kidnapped.
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Iraq closed its borders with Iran and Syria as U.S. and Iraqi troops tightened their grip on Baghdad on Thursday, setting up more checkpoints that stopped and searched even official convoys for weapons.
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A number of coalition member states are considering or have already decided that their forces will begin withdrawing from Iraq after national elections in January -- a move that could impact the ability of ...
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Developments in Iraq on Tuesday:
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The White House on Tuesday played down prospects of major troop withdrawals from Iraq in the near future. &quot;We&#039;re not going to sort of look at our watches and say, oop, time to go,&quot; presidential spokesman Tony Snow said.
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An early withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq may lead to civil war, Egypt&#39;s foreign minister said, as his Iraqi counterpart begins two days of talks with neighboring countries and officials from the Group of Eight nations.
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[World News]: Baghdad, Oct 13 : Iraq has said UN weapons inspectors are welcome to return, in response to an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report that equipment and materials used for nuclear weapons have disappeared from the country, reports
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Fresh doubts were raised over the feasibility of holding elections in Iraq yesterday with reports that the already minuscule United Nations team there wants to pull out because of the dangerous security situation.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ordered this week that U.S. diplomatic positions in Iraq must be filled before any other State Department openings in Washington or overseas are made available, raising the possibility that soon the agency will be forced to order its employees to serve in Iraq.
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Denmark was expected to announce plans to begin withdrawing its troops from Iraq at a news conference on Wednesday, Danish media reported.Comment
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U.S. officials in Baghdad fear that violence between Sunnis and Shi'ites in some areas will erupt into "ethnic cleansing" with the departure of U.S. forces, a government watchdog said on Thursday.
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The United States should begin to withdraw its forces from combat in Iraq and launch a diplomatic push, including Iran and Syria, to prevent "a slide toward chaos" in the country, a high-level panel recommended on Wednesday.
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Geneva - The aid agency doctors without borders, Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Thursday it was pulling out of Iraq because of escalating violence in the country and the danger to its staff.