BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq plans to hold a July referendum on a controversial military pact allowing US troops to remain for another three years that parliament is expected to adopt on Thursday in a delayed vote.At least two people were killed
Seeking experience in wartime, President-elect Barack Obama intends to retain Defence Secretary Robert Gates as head of the Pentagon, if only temporarily, and has chosen a retired Marine general to be White House national security adviser,
BANGLADESH (AFP) - Iraq’s parliament is to vote on Wednesday after many hours of often stormy debate on a pact with Washington that would see US forces leave the war-torn country by the end of 2011, its speaker said.The government is
