Iraq Delays Nassiriya Oil Field Decision
Iraq has delayed a decision on bids by Japan's Nippon Oil (5001.T), Italy's Eni (ENI.MI) and Spain's Repsol (REP.MC) to develop the Nassiriya oil field, a senior oil official said on Sunday.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Iraq to Invite E.Baghdad Oil Field Bid in mid-June
Iraq will invite select oil companies in mid-June to bid for contracts to develop the southern portion of the East Baghdad oil field, a "super giant" reserve near the capital, a senior official said on Sunday.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Ancient Iraqi Nomenclatures New Victims of U.S. Invaders
U.S. invaders of Iraq do not seem to be satisfied with the great calamities they have directly or indirectly caused the living in Iraq. It now appears they have extended their unjustified violence and marauding practices to the country??™s ancient...
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
FBI Official Says Bomb Expert Fled from Iraq to Lebanon
A master bomb-maker who once targeted commercial airliners and was suspected of aiding the Iraqi insurgency has fled to Lebanon, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) official has confirmed.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Audio Tape Denies Capture of Iraq Insurgent Leader
The self-described leader of an Al Qaida front group issued a new audio tape this weekend, deepening the mystery surrounding the identity of the insurgent leader whom the Iraqi government claims to have in custody and whose very existence the US once...
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Oil Prices Rise in Asian Trade
Oil prices rose in Asian trade Monday, fuelled by a rise in regional equities markets and a weak US dollar, dealers said.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Iraqi Kurdistan Begins Historic Oil Exports
Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region began exporting oil for the first time on Monday, shipping crude through a pipeline to neighbouring Turkey.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Syria Looks to Iraq for an Economic Boost
Syria, suffering from dwindling oil revenue and a sluggish, state-dominated market, is banking on an economic boost from an unlikely source: Iraq.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Conservatism, Mismanagement Holds Back Iraq's Health System
This part of Iraq, says Dr Ayad al-Hadithy, is so conservative that a man would rather have his pregnant wife die in labour than be touched by a male nurse or doctor. It's just one of the difficulties faced by US and Iraqi officials as they struggle...
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Saudi Arabia Rejects Iraq Claims of 'negativity'
Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz has rejected Iraqi claims that the Kingdom was adopting "negative positions" on repairing diplomatic ties and urged Baghdad to improve border security.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Dramatic Plane Arrest of Iraqi Ex-minister
Iraq's former trade minister has been arrested at Baghdad International Airport on corruption charges as he was trying to leave the country.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Sharjah Hosts Emirates-Iraq Business Forum
Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qassimi, Member of the UAE Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, and with the presence of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Sultan Al Qassimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce...
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Iraq Mobile TV Launched
Mobision, part of the Communication Entertainment Technologies Group, and sister company to Iraqi television giant Alsumaria TV, has started its commercial DVB-H-based mobile TV service in Iraq, following an extended period of testing.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Iraq Repairs Kirkuk Pipelines
A spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Oil has said that technical teams and engineers from the ministry have repaired pipelines from Kirkuk that were damaged by sabotage in 2003, and resumed the pumping of liquefied gas to the factory in al-Taji area,...
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Iraqi Sports Journalist Killed in Northern Iraq
An Iraqi sports broadcaster was killed Sunday by a bomb attached to his car in northern Iraq, while two other journalists were wounded in a similar blast in Baghdad, officials said.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Family's Hope for Christian Burial for Aid Worker
The family of murdered aid worker Margaret Hassan spoke today of their hopes that a trial in Iraq this week will end their desperate quest to recover her body.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Qatar Beat Iraq 1 - 0 in Friendly
Qatar gained much-needed confidence for Saturday??™s crucial World Cup qualifying match following a 1-0 win over Iraq in a friendly match at the Sheikh Jassim Stadium yesterday.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Obama Speech to Muslims Key to New U.S. Strategy
President Barack Obama will try to repair America's tarnished image in the Muslim world on Thursday, as he looks to mobilize support for restarting Middle East peacemaking and thwarting Iran's nuclear ambitions.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
UAE's Dana Gas to Go Ahead with Kurdistan Project
UAE's Dana Gas (DANA.AD) will go ahead with its project in Iraq's Kurdistan region despite the federal government's rejection of the deal, a Dana Gas source told Reuters on Sunday.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Iraqi PM Vows Death for Poison Gas Defendants
Former members of Saddam Hussein's government on trial for ordering poison gas attacks on Kurdish villages will be executed if found guilty, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed on Sunday.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Fatal Shooting Shows Stress Risk Facing US Troops
Experts say the risk of soldiers suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) goes up substantially on their third tour of duty. Sergeant Joseph Huiet is on his sixth.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Main "mobile Money" Players in Africa, Middle East
Phone operators in Africa and the Middle East are rushing to get ahead in the mobile banking and mobile money transfer game, a market likely to encompass nearly a billion people by 2014.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Bomb in Baghdad Market Kills 4 and Wounds 13
A bomb killed four people and wounded 13 in a Baghdad vegetable market Monday, police and witnesses said, in the second attack there in just over two weeks.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Kurdistan National Team Formed Again
For the upcoming VIVA matches (provincial championships), which will be held in Italy on June 22nd , Emad Qader, the coach of the Kurdistan soccer team, named 22 players to commence training at their camp from Saturday.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Stability in the Middle East: Proposal to International Community
The entire world now works to find stability in the Middle East, and particularly in Iraq. The world tried all methods to find a solution to the catastrophic situation that exist in Iraq, unfortunately there is no any improvement, and whole the world...
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
US Military Deaths in Iraq War at 4,306
As of Sunday, May 31, 2009, at least 4,306 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
US Deaths in Iraq Rise Sharply in Mayb
May saw 24 US soldiers killed, bringing the total number of US casualties since the 2003 invasion to just over 4,300.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Iraq Power Minister Sees $2.4bn Bond for Projects
Iraq's electricity minister said he expects parliament to approve a multi-billion dollar bond issue that would be used mainly to finance electricity projects in the country.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
US Invasion of Iraq Threatens Multilateralism
From the moment of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003 the United Nations was deliberately bypassed by the Americans, dealing a fatal blow to one of the foundations of the international order: multilateralism. Until then, this principle had been...
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
U.S. Army Says Troops to Leave Cities on Schedule
The commander of the Iraqi Assistance Group, General Keith Walker, on Sunday said that all combat troops will withdraw from Iraqi cities by the end of next month, adding that advisory teams will remain to train Iraqi forces.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Maliki Gave Orders to Arrest Ex-trade Minister- Paper
The Washington Post on Sunday quoted Iraqi Interior Ministry officials as saying that the order to turn around a plane carrying ex-trade minister, Abdulfalah al-Sudani, and arrest him came from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki??™s office.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Resigned Trade Minister Held in Samawa Prison
Resigned Trade Minister Abdulfalah al-Sudani on Sunday arrived in Muthanna province under police escort, according to a local judicial source.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
MP Says U.S. Official??™s Statement Disavowal of SOFA
An Iraqi independent parliamentarian on Sunday described statements by U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George Casey about the possibility of a prolonged presence of U.S. troops in Iraq as an attempt to disavow the security agreement between the two...
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Anti-smoking Laws on the Way
The Iraqi Parliament will enact a number of laws to ban smoking in state institutions and departments, the chairman of the parliamentary health and environment committee said on Sunday, which marks the World No Tobacco Day.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
54m Shares Traded in ISX 7th Electronic Session
The Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX) on Sunday held its seventh electronic trading session, where 54 million shares were traded at a value of 82 million Iraqi dinars (ID) ($70,000 U.S. dollars).
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Dollar Sales Slump on Sun.
Demand for the dollar significantly dropped in the Central Bank of Iraq??™s (CBI) auction on Sunday, reaching $154.445 compared to $202.555 million in the previous session.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
Iraq to Re-merge into Global Economic System ??“ Official
Iraq seeks to re-merge into the global economic system, according to the Iraq National Investment Commission on Sunday, expecting the country??™s gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 7 percent this year.
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Iraq | Monday Jun 1
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