HighLights of AAP's Iraq file at 18:30, April 11

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HighLights of AAP's Iraq file at 18:30, April 11

MOSUL - Iraq's third city of Mosul fell, apparently without a fight, to Kurdish guerrillasand US special forces on Friday, heralding the total collapse of support for Saddam Husseinin the north. (Iraq North 2nd Nightlead)

BAGHDAD - US forces and Kurdish fighters were pushing into the key city of Mosul innorthern Iraq today, but American troops in Baghdad faced fresh resistance from fightersloyal to Saddam Hussein. (Iraq Nightlead)

BAGHDAD - Shopkeepers in central Baghdad opened fire today for the first time on looters,as the city descended into chaos, an AFP correspondent reported. (Iraq Looting)

BAGHDAD - Twenty-five people were admitted to hospital in Baghdad today after sufferinggunshot wounds in clashes during looting, hospital sources told AFP. (Iraq Baghdad Nightlead)

NASIRIYAH - US Marines said they killed two children at a checkpoint in Iraq todaywhen the driver of the vehicle in which the youngsters were travelling ignored warningsto stop, creating fears of a suicide attack. (Iraq Children)

BAGHDAD - Baghdad's people are running low on food, the electricity is out, and theyare getting just a trickle of water from the taps. But most of all, it is law and orderthat is in short supply. (Iraq Scene)

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH - The United States is pledging a no-deals end game for the remnantsof the Iraqi regime, with the capital in coalition hands and final pockets of troops underfire and apparently eager for a conditional surrender. (Iraq Surrender)

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon envisions parallel ministries led by Americans and Iraqisrunning postwar Iraq until an interim government can be established, Deputy Defence SecretaryPaul Wolfowitz told a Senate panel. (Iraq Govern Nightlead)

LONDON - Ahmed Chalabi, the man pushed by the Pentagon as a credible leader in post-warIraq, has warned there is "no room" for the United States in an Iraqi interim authority.

(Iraq Chalabi)

JAKARTA - With US and British troops sweeping through Iraq, religious and governmentleaders in Indonesia - the world's largest Muslim nation - called today for a quick endto the occupation. (Iraq Reaction Asia)

WASHINGTON - War planners thought Iraq might fight with poison gas and germs. So far,it hasn't. US officials worried that hundreds of oil wells, instead of fewer than a dozen,would be set on fire. Israel braced for incoming missiles that never arrived. (Iraq WorstAnalysis)

WASHINGTON - The collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime is complicating one of the USmilitary's top priorities in Iraq: rescuing American soldiers captured during the war.

(Iraq POWs)

STOCKHOLM, AFP - They may be thousands of kilometres away from the fighting in Iraq,but children in Sweden are haunted by a war which stokes their worst fears about the worldthey live in, psychologists fielding calls on a war hotline said.(Iraq Children Feature)

WASHINGTON - Far from celebrating the presumed quick end to the war in Iraq, US peaceactivists say they are outraged at the prospect of a lengthy military occupation thereand are gearing up for more protests. (Iraq Protests Nightlead)

DOHA - It was just a little incident and it didn't seem a big deal at the time butit illustrates the knife-edge tensions of nervous soldiers confronting unknown vehiclesat checkpoints in Iraq. (Iraq Aust Checkpoint)

CANBERRA - Prime Minister John Howard has discussed the future of Iraq with US PresidentGeorge W Bush after telling him Australia would join the Iraq transitional authority.

(Iraq Aust Nightlead)

SYDNEY - Australian troops should be brought home from Iraq as soon as possible inthe interests of national security, Opposition Leader Simon Crean said today. (Iraq Crean

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CANBERRA - An international Muslim group today targeted embassies and consulates inAustralia and the Middle East, urging Muslim countries to protest against the Iraq war.

(Iraq Aust Protests)

SYDNEY - Scenes of joyous Baghdad residents welcoming United States soldiers gave amisleading impression of how Iraqis felt about the US, an Iraqi refugee said today. (IraqPalm)

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