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Iyad Allawi: Iraq's comeback kid
Baghdad (AFP) March 27, 2010
Former premier Iyad Allawi, who once plotted a CIA-backed coup against Saddam Hussein and was nearly murdered while in exile, is within reach of retaking power in war-ravaged Iraq.
The British-trained doctor's secular Iraqiya bloc won the most seats in the March 7 election, full results released by the election commission showed, narrowly edging out incumbent Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law Al ... more
Secular strongman Allawi back on rungs of Iraq power
Baghdad (AFP) March 26, 2010
Iraq's former premier Iyad Allawi, who once plotted a CIA-backed coup against Saddam Hussein, is within reach of clambering back to power after the war-torn country's March 7 election.
The British-trained doctor, 64, was provisionally appointed prime minister by Washington in June 2004 and led a transitional government for just under a year.
Allawi, a Shiite, had been a member of Saddam' ... more
Uzbek doctors infected some 150 children with HIV: report
Moscow (AFP) March 23, 2010
Nearly 150 children in eastern Uzbekistan were infected with HIV in 2007-2008 through doctors' negligence, the Central Asian news website Ferghana.ru reported Monday.
"Due to doctors' negligence 147 children in Namangan and Namangan region alone were infected with HIV, including 20 in regional hospitals," the website quoted a state television documentary as saying.
"By January 2009, when ... more
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