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During a ceremony held at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, on Nov 3, Maj.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with a top U.N. envoy in Baghdad to address defense and sovereignty issues relating to a string of deadly attacks.

The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in Iraq - one in combat and one of noncombat-related injuries.

Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Wednesday that economic and political cooperation between Iran and Iraq is expanding, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Concern over crucial Iraqi elections grew on Monday as parliamentarians here considered a new United Nations proposal aimed at breaking a two-month deadlock over how to conduct the vote, slated for January. Negotiations over the election law have remained stalled over one of the most emotional issues in the country - the disputed city of Kirkuk.

The United States and the UN, concerned that a further delay would require postponing elections past January, have issued unusually pointed statements in the past week urging the Iraqi factions to try to settle their differences. US Vice President Joe Biden telephoned Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdish Regional government, on Sunday to urge him to agree to an election law, Kurdish officials say.

Bombings in central and western Iraq killed at least seven people and wounded 45 others on Sunday, the Interior Ministry said.

Iraq's stock exchange on Sunday moved to electronic trading every day of the business week for the first time, in a step towards embracing the modern world of international finance.

Despite major bombings that have rattled the nation, and fears of rising violence as American troops withdraw, Iraq 's security forces have been relying on a device to detect bombs and weapons that the United States military and technical experts say is useless.

BAGHDAD: British oil major BP plc and China's CNPC signed Iraq's first major new oil deal since the 2003 US invasion yesterday, snapping up a development contract for the Rumaila oilfield, one of the world's biggest.

The bloodshed comes as Iraqi lawmakers intensify negotiations over a new election law that many hope will hasten the end of political gridlock over control of oil-rich Kirkuk - an old dispute between Arabs and Kurds that has threatened Iraq's fragile stability as U.S. troops prepare to leave the country.

The International Organization for Migration says nearly 350,000 displaced Iraqis have returned to their homes but are now suffering from widespread unemployment and lack of resources.

Family and friends of an Army paratrooper from Merced are mourning his death in a Humvee crash outside Baghdad.

Violent deaths in Iraq more than doubled in October compared to the previous month, with 410 people killed across the country, official figures show.

The number of civilians killed by violence in Iraq jumped higher in October after two huge suicide bombings in Baghdad while the two U.S. soldiers killed in combat in October was the lowest monthly number this year, data showed.

Members of the Montana National Guard's 143rd Military Police Company are back in Montana after a yearlong tour in Iraq.

Iraq -Eni sign Zubair oil deal Eds: APNewsNow. . BAGHDAD Iraq's oil ministry has signed an initial deal with a consortium led by Italy's Eni SpA to develop a prized southern oil field.

Nearly half of all Iraqis who died in October perished in a single coordinated attack against government offices in Baghdad, a tally by The Associated Press showed Monday.

DAMASCUS: Iraqi refugee Leila Johanna Isho is determined to make this her last year in Syria.

A police officer in Baghdad has been killed by his own pistol, after it was grabbed by a suspect in last Sunday's bombings.