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Updated: Thu, 24 May 2012 03:39:07 -0400

News: Wars

Civilian Corpse Found in Mosul
Police forces found the corpse of a civilian with signs of multiple stab wounds on it in eastern Mosul city, a source from Ninewa province??™s police said on Tuesday.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Wednesday May 20
 
Gunmen Open Fire on Japanese Ambassador on Visit to Iraq??™s Anbar
A convoy carrying the Japanese ambassador to Iraq came under fire in Ramadi in western Iraq.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
UAE-Europe Venture to Develop Iraq Gas Fields
Two UAE firms said on Sunday they had partnered with European firms to develop gas fields in the Kurdish autonomous region of north Iraq in a venture worth an estimated eight billion dollars.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Tough Times for India's Licensing Round
India will find the going tough as it puts up more of its potential oil and gas reserves on the block in August, given competing exploration rounds in other countries, credit issues, low oil prices and uncertainties about future energy demand.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
KRG Minister Welcomes Investments in Future Gas Exports from Region
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) welcomes yesterday's announcements by MOL, OMV and UAS partners of further investments in the Kurdistan Region. These investments will accelerate the development of local gas resources, ensuring the commercial...
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
US Commander: Iraqi Navy to Run Offshore Oil Platform
Iraq's navy could be fully responsible for the defence of one of two key offshore oil platforms by December, according to the senior US and coalition commander in the Persian Gulf.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
OMV Boosts E&P Portfolio with Investment in Kurdistan Region
OMV has successfully expanded its E&P portfolio in the Middle East by signing an agreement with the sellers Crescent Petroleum Company International and Dana Gas PJSC to acquire a 10% share in Pearl Petroleum Company Limited, a company which is...
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
New Violations at the Interior Ministry
Last month an armed gang broke into a number of gold shops in al-Tobaji area in central Baghdad, stealing more than 32 kilograms of gold killing seven Sabean jewellers.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
An Interview with the Iraqi Minister of Transport
Niqash met Iraqi Minister of Transport, Amer Abdul-Jabbar, to discuss the development of the country??™s transportation sectors and the different challenges hindering growth.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraqi Negotiations over Compensation Expanded
Iraqi negotiations with Washington, London and Paris are being expanded to find solutions for the compensation imposed on Iraq by the UN Security Council following the former Iraqi regime's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Baghdad Halts Kurdish Plan To Pipe Gas Into Europe
A Kurdish plan to help to cut Europe's reliance on Russian gas by piping supplies from northern Iraq has been rejected by officials in Baghdad.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq to Hold Landmark Census of Arab-Kurdish Divide
Iraq is to carry out its first nationwide census in two decades in October and, in a decision pregnant with consequences for Kurdish ambitions for wider autonomy, will ask all citizens their ethnicity.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq to Impose at Least 35% Tax Revenue on Foreign Oil Companies
Iraqi Cabinet spokesman Ali Al Dabbagh affirmed that the ministerial council has approved a draft law according to which all foreign oil companies are subject to tax revenue of at least 35%.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
'Billions Lost' to Corruption in Iraq
As the sun disappears behind the dusty horizon and the air begins to cool, a group of men gather near a butcher's shop in the Karada neighbourhood of Baghdad.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Appeal Court Backs Soldiers' Battlefield Human Rights
Deploying British troops on battlefield operations with inadequate or defective equipment could breach their human rights, senior judges ruled today, opening the way for potentially huge compensation claims from bereaved families.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
LUKoil Likely to Regain West Qurna-2 Oil Contract in Iraq
Russia??™s largest independent oil producer LUKoil will have an opportunity to renew its contract for the West Qurna-2 oil field in southern Iraq, a senior Iraqi lawmaker said on Monday.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq Plans to Boost Oil Output to 6m Bpd: Oil Min.
Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani has said his country plans to raise its oil output to 6 million barrels per day.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq Stability May Stall As U.S. Removes Troops, Haass Says
Stability in Iraq has reached its peak and conditions probably won??™t improve before the U.S. pulls out its troops, said Richard Haass, a former top official in both Bush administrations.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Date for Iraq??™s General Election Set for January 30
Iraqi voters will choose a new parliament at the end of January for the first time since 2005, setting the stage for elections that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki hopes will reward him for improved security in the country.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq Rejects $8 Bln Kurdish Nabucco Pipeline Deal
The Iraqi government on Monday rejected an $8 billion Kurdish plan to fill the Nabucco pipeline with gas for Europe, a major setback to a project designed to reduce the continent's reliance on Russian energy.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq Kurds Expect Substantial Surplus in Gas Deal
Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish region welcomed on Monday an $8 billion natural gas plan from a bloc of European and Arab firms that it said could provide gas for Europe.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq Airs Tape of Purported Insurgent Leader
Iraqi officials aired a videotape on Monday of a man accused of being an insurgent leader who said al Qaeda-linked militants took orders from Saddam Hussein's Baath party and plotted to incite civil war.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq Sets Provisional January 30 Election Date
Iraq on Monday set a provisional date of January 30 for a national election, which will be the second since the fall of Saddam Hussein six years ago but the first to be organized and secured by Iraqis.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Kurds, Iraqis Start Joint Patrols in Disputed Area
For two groups that came close to a shooting at each other nine months ago, Iraqi and Kurdish forces say they are working surprisingly well in joint patrols launched this month in a restive part of Iraq.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
UK's Cameron Trying to Show He Has the Common Touch
David Cameron may have been educated at Britain's most elite school, but supporters in working class northwest England say he has the common touch to unseat Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq's Cabinet Approves $3 Billion of Treasury Bonds
Iraq's cabinet approved the sale of treasury bonds worth $3 billion on Sunday, and the sale now awaits parliamentary approval, the government spokesman said.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq Cabinet Backs Bill for 35 Percent Foreign Oil Tax
Iraq's cabinet has approved a bill that would subject all foreign oil companies to a tax on income of at least 35 percent, the government spokesman said on Sunday.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq Gas Plan Valuable for Nabucco: Consortium
An $8 billion plan to pump gas from Iraq's Kurdistan is a valuable development for the Nabucco pipeline project, the Nabucco consortium head said on Sunday.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq Elections Pushed To January, Complicating US Withdrawal Plans
National parliamentary elections will be held Jan. 30, Iraqi officials announced Monday, sliding the date into next year in a move that could complicate the U.S. timetable for drawing down its forces.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
2 Policemen Killed in Mosul Violence
Two policemen were killed and four people wounded in a car bombing and gunfire attacks separately in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on Sunday, a local police source said.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Donald Rumsfeld Covered Iraq Briefing Papers with Biblical Texts
According to a report in GQ magazine the religious texts were imposed over pictures of the US armed forces engaged in the war.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq Seeks Foreign Investers
Iraq's Prime Minister is hoping to attract more foreign investment to the country in a bid to become to business hub of the middle-east.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq Airs Tape of Insurgent Leader
Iraqi officials aired a videotape yesterday of a man accused of being an insurgent leader who said al Qaeda-linked militants took orders from Saddam Hussein's Baath party and plotted to incite civil war. In late April, Iraq heralded the capture of...
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
AWB to Battle Iraqi Skirmishes for Years
IT IS six years since US-led forces, including Australia, invaded Iraq, sending the dictator Saddam Hussein scurrying from palatial power in central Baghdad to a subterranean hidey-hole and, some time later, to his brutally public death.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Prime Minister Barzani Advances Governance and Transparency Initiative
Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani met with advisers yesterday to continue discussions on the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Good Governance & Transparency Initiative.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Natural Resources Minister Welcomes Investments in Future Gas Exports from Kurdistan Region
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) welcomes yesterday??™s announcements by MOL, OMV and UAS partners of further investments in the Kurdistan Region. These investments will accelerate the development of local gas resources, ensuring the commercial...
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Tensions Stoked Between Kurds and Sunnis
Tensions between Sunni Arabs and Kurds are boiling over in Nineveh, the northern Iraqi province that includes Mosul, as Kurds fight the result of a provincial election in January that shifted power to Arabs.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Lebanon's Trade Minister Remarks on Rapid Development in Kurdistan Region
President Barzani discussed economic developments and opportunities with Lebanon's Minister of Economy and Trade.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Workshop on Training Iraqi Cadres on Archeological Survey Kicks off
A workshop on training the Iraqi cadres who work in the field of museums and archeology about the archeological survey of the historic buildings in Iraq started Monday at Damascus National Museum.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Iraq to Conduct First National Census in Two Decades
Iraq is to carry out its first nationwide census in two decades in October and, in a decision pregnant with consequences for Kurdish ambitions for wider autonomy, will ask all citizens their ethnicity. Householders will be asked their religion but...
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Kurdish Parliament Approves Interior Ministry Bill
The Kurdistan Region Parliament on Monday afternoon held a session under Deputy Speaker Dr. Kamal Kirkuki, during which it approved the Kurdish Interior Ministry draft law.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Feyli Kurds Case Resumed
Iraq??™s Supreme Criminal Court on Monday resumed its sessions under Judge Ra??™oof Rashied Abdulrahman on the trial of suspects in the killing and forced relocation of Feyli Kurds.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
80 Lawmakers Demand Vote of No Confidence on Trade Minister
MP from the Iraqi List, Radwan al-Klidar, said on Monday that more than 80 lawmakers presented a memorandum demanding a vote of no confidence be held on Trade Minister Abdulfalah al-Sudani.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
VP Abdulmahdi Returns to Baghdad from Amman
Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdulmahdi and his accompanying delegation arrived in Baghdad from Amman where he took part in the Davos Economic Forum.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Speaker in Private Session with Ministers of Defense, Interior
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Iyad al-Samarraie on Monday held a private session with the ministers of defense and interior, according to a member of parliament.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Cabinet to Compensate Those Harmed by Security Operations- Deputy PM
Deputy Prime Minister Rafie al-Issawi on Monday revealed cabinet plans to make up for the damage caused by military and armed operations in the country.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Parl. Invites Ministers of Defense, Interior over Security
During its 14 th regular session, the Iraqi Parliament on Monday invited the ministers of defense and interior to attend a debate on the recent security developments in the country.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Federal Court Sets Jan. 30 for Next Parliamentary Polls
Iraq??™s Federal Court has set January 30, 2010 as the date for the next parliamentary elections in Iraq, the Parliament??™s First Deputy Speaker Khaled Atiyya said on Monday.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Signatures Collected to Withdraw Confidence from Trade Minister
The chairman of the parliamentary integrity commission said he has collected signatures of 50 parliamentarians to withdraw confidence from the Iraqi minister of trade in light of corruption charges.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19
 
Armed Group Leader Busted in Ninewa
Iraqi army forces on Monday arrested a senior leader of the Islamic State of Iraqi group in northern Mosul, a military source said.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | Tuesday May 19

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