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  • Iraqi policewomen to get training ‘exposure to American culture’ in U.S.

    Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department has sponsored a visit by a delegation of Iraqi police officers for a training course in cooperation with the Iraqi Interior Ministry. The department’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs oversaw a three-week training course for 10 Iraqi women officers on criminal investigation and other ...

  • Eleven die in surge of Iraq violence

    BAGHDAD // Attacks in Iraq yesterday killed 11 people, including four soldiers, officials said. It was the latest in a wave of violence that has left 420 people dead so far this month. Gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Taji, north of Baghdad, killing the four soldiers and wounding five others, security and medical officials said. Near Baquba, also north of the capital, a roadside bomb in a ...

  • BP allocates USD2.9b to Rumaila oilfield in 2013

    (MENAFN) BP assigned USD2.85 billion to improve Rumaila oilfield located in Iraq during 2013, reported Gulf Daily News citing the head of the joint management committee for the field.Raising the output from Rumaila is very important for the country to be able to increase oil exports to 6 million bpd by 2017.USD2.2 billion was the agreed financial amount for the improvement of Iraq's most ...

  • Strife in Iraq Worse and worse

    A WIDENING arc of violence across Iraq is raising fears that the country could fracture under the weight of sectarian and political strife. Attacks in the past week stretched from north of Baghdad, the capital, to the normally calm southern city of Basra, killing more than 200 people. The targets included Sunni mosques as well as Shia districts and Iraqi security forces. On May 20th alone, at ...

  • Iraqi justice troubles Amnesty International

    Amnesty International reports. Amnesty published its 328-page "State of the World 2013" report, highlighting the rights record of 155 countries and territories. In a forwarding statement, the rights group said the world is "an increasingly dangerous place" where governments are more interested in protecting their borders than the rights of their citizens. On Iraq, the ...

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Ten years after he reinvented the American horror film with the seminal Night of the Living Dead (1968), George A. Romero returned to his story of the world being taken over by zombies in Dawn of the Dead, a film that is every bit as shocking, inventive, inte ... ...

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  • Gunmen kill 7 Iraqi soldiers in central Iraq

    BAGHDAD -; Gunmen killed at least seven soldiers in central Iraq on Thursday, officials said, in the latest episode of violence to hit the country in a particularly bloody ...

  • Iraq produces 3.1m bpd of oil in April

    (MENAFN) Iraq's oil ministry announced that the country's total oil output reached 3.1 million barrels per day (bpd) last month, reported Xinhua News.According to the minister of oil, Abdul Kareem Luaybi, in 2014, Iraq's oil production will rise to 3.4 million bpd.Meanwhile, oil shipments went up to 2.6 million bpd in April, up from 2.4 million bpd in the previous month.Revenues ...

  • ‘There was no Muslim terrorism in the UK until Iraq’ – Oxford imam

    War British Muslims "disown" the Woolwich murderers, and such extremists should be "totally demolished" in UK society - but in order to do that, the UK must change its "illegal" foreign policy, imam of the Oxford Islamic Congregation Dr. Taj Hargey told ...

  • Iraq violence kills 11

    View Photo AFP/AFP/File - Iraqi anti-terror police guard a checkpoint in Baghdad, on January 6, 2011. Gunmen have shot dead four Iraqi soldiers, security and medical officials said, the latest attacks in a wave of ...

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