CAIRO: Iraqi oil ministry has said on Thursday that ExxonMobil, the oil giant, will not participate in an auction of exploration blocks next month, a press statement revealed. The statement published on the oil ministry’s website confirmed that the fourth bidding round for energy contracts would be held on May 30-31, and that the final [...]
NEW DELHI: A High Court in the Indian state of Karnataka has called the top police official “worse than Saddam Hussain and Moammar Gadaffi” for excesses he committed against tribal communities in the 1990s while on the hunt to nab a guerilla gangster and sandalwood smuggler Veerappan. The court also struck down his appointment as [...]
Baghdad (dpa) – Nine Arab heads of state have confirmed participation in next week’s Arab League summit in Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Saturday. “More presidents and kings continue to say they will come to Baghdad. I think until now nine have confirmed their attendance. We expect the number to increase,” al-Maliki said [...]
CAIRO: Sudanese president Omar Bashir will travel to Iraq next week to participate in the Arab League summit. The Sudan’s pro-government Akhir Lahza newspaper quoted unnamed sources as saying that Bashir will be joined by foreign minister Ali Karti, intelligence director Mohamed Atta and minister at the presidency Bakri Hassan Saleh. It was also said [...]
Baghdad (dpa) – An Iraqi seven-year-old boy died when three other children allegedly hanged him when mimicking a scene from a television soap opera, security sources said Wednesday. The suspects, also aged seven, had placed the child on an empty oil container and tightened a noose around his neck as they were playing in the [...]
DUBAI: Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways announced on Saturday it had won approval to become the first Kuwaiti carrier to operate flights to Iraq. The airline said it has secured rights to operate a Kuwait-Al Najaf route and intends to launch “within the next six months”. The announcement follows “successful bilateral discussions between the governments of Kuwait [...]
The government of Iraq should immediately investigate and bring to justice those responsible for a targeted campaign of intimidation and violence against Iraqi youth seen as belonging to the non-conformist “emo” subculture, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission said today. The attacks have created an atmosphere of [...]
Baghdad (dpa) – Eight people were killed when gunmen attacked a jewellery shop in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday, according to the Ministry of Interior. Security forces clashed with the gunmen who attacked the shop in eastern Baghdad’s Urr neighborhood. Four people were also injured in the robbery. Two workers at the shop are [...]
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia is preparing to build a 890 kilometer northern border fence as part of a security project, Arab News reported. The aim of the fence is to reduce illegal smuggling along the northern border, Border Guards Colonel Salem bin Saleh al-Sulami said in comments published by the Saudi newspaper on Sunday. “This project [...]
DUBAI: A new report revealed that the Iraqi ministry of interior has backed a reported massacre of some 100 Emos and LGBT people in the country last month. Gay Middle East reported an Iraqi source as saying a new wave of violence could begin as early as Monday. The Iraqi Interior Ministry knew about the [...]
CAIRO: Iraq’s oil production has exceeded three million barrels per day, the country’s highest output since 1979, Minister of Oil Abdul-Karim al-Luaybi said on Monday. Production “is expected to reach 3.4 million by the end of the year,” al-Luaybi added. Iraq relies heavily on oil exports for its revenue and aims to raise production to [...]
CAIRO: An American gym teacher was killed Thursday in Iraq when a student in the crowded classroom pulled out a gun, shot the teacher and then as his terrified classmates fled the room, shot himself, officials and eyewitnesses said. The incident marked a rare violent death of an American in the relatively peaceful Kurdish region, [...]
The top United Nations envoy in Iraq on Sunday stressed the need to ensure that internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the country continue to receive the care and protection they need, while efforts are made to help them return to their areas of origin, resettle or integrate into host communities. “Our collective responsibility is to [...]
Baghdad (dpa) – At least 32 people were killed Thursday in car bomb and machine gun attacks in several areas of Baghdad, Arab media reported. The first attack occurred during the morning rush hour in the mainly Shiite Muslim district of Karrada in southern Baghdad, killing at least 10 people, according to the broadcaster Al [...]
Baghdad (dpa) – Saudi Arabia has named an ambassador to Iraq, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, the first such appointment since 1990 when relations between the two countries strained over Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Fahd bin Abdul-Mohsen al-Zaid, Saudi Arabia’s envoy to Jordan, will also serve as ambassador to Iraq, the ministry added. [...]
CAIRO: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called for the beginning of the relocation of residents of the settlement in Iraq formerly known as Camp Ashraf, urging the government and the camp dwellers to continue to cooperate so that the process can be carried out in a peaceful manner. “The Secretary-General reiterates that the [...]
Baghdad (dpa) – In fresh evidence that extreme religious groups are gradually losing their influence on Iraqi society, Baghdad celebrated St Valentine’s in full force on Tuesday, with people dressed in red and shops competing with different gifts to mark the day. Borouj Abed, a 13-year-old student, made sure to prepare her outfit days ago. [...]
Istanbul (dpa) – Turkish air force planes have conducted raids on targets in northern Iraq, the Turkish military announced in a statement on its website Sunday. The raids took place on Saturday night on targets in the Zap and Hakurk districts, identified as “caves being used by a terrorist group,” according to the statement. No [...]
Baghdad (dpa) – Iraqi authorities Wednesday executed 14 people convicted of terrorism and criminal charges, the Iraqi Alsumaria News website reported. Justice Ministry spokesman Haider al-Saadi was quoted by the website as saying a leading militant in the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq was among those executed. He added that the executions were compliant with [...]
CAIRO: Saudi Arabia is looking for a prisoner exchange with Iraq after three members of the Saudi royal family have been reported to be on death row in Iraq. The ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom has continued efforts to push for an exchange of 6 Saudi nationals, including the royals, with Baghdad, local Iraqi state-run media reported [...]
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