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McClatchy Newspapers - US-Mexico City. Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged on Tuesday that a seven-month period of calm in the U.S. troop deaths in Iraq has ended and blamed the bloodshed on Shiite Muslim militiamen who have bombarded the Green Zone and the main parts of Baghdad with rockets and mortar shells.

Reuters - U.S. Ports along the west coast, including the country’s most active port complex in Los Angeles, were closed most of Thursday, as some dockworkers was 10000 in one day strike to protest against the war in Iraq, Port and union officials said.

AP - A congressman on Monday protested the return to the obligation of an army officer who was authorized for more than two years after the death of two civilians Iraqis, saying he deserves more than the military falsely accused him.

Reuters - Iraq will not accept any security agreement with the United States unless it includes dates for the withdrawal of foreign forces, government’s national security adviser said Tuesday.

AFP - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani his wife, Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, escaped a roadside bomb attack in the heart of Baghdad on Sunday that wounded four bodyguards, officials said.

Reuters - contributing U.S. killed in Iraq fell to its lowest level last month since 2003 invasion and officials said on Sunday the improvement of security also helped boost the country oil production in May for a post-war high.

AFP - Iraq agreed on Thursday to renew a 2006 agreement to sell discounted oil to Jordan for three years, Prime Minister Jordanian Nader Dahabi said after talks with his visiting Iraqi counterpart Nuri al-Maliki.

Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, causing an offensive against al Qaeda in the north, offered cash and freedom from prosecution on Friday to combatants who renounce their weapons within 10 days.

AFP - Employees of U.S. military contractors helped the torture of Iraqi civilian detainees at Abu Ghraib prison five years ago, according to a federal complaint filed in Los Angeles on Monday.