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  • Salman Khurshid meets Prime Minister of Iraq in Baghdad

    The visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid met Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al Maliki in Baghdad on Thursday. Khurshid is presently on a two-day official visit to Baghdad at the invitation of the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Iraq Hoshiyar Zebari. Ahead of landing in Baghdad, Khurshid hailed the valuable and rich history of relationship between the two countries. "We ...

  • Four killed 21 injured Iraq attacks

    At least four people were killed and 21 wounded in separate incidents of shooting and bomb attacks in Iraq Wednesday, the police said. Three people were killed and 15 injured in a roadside bomb explosion at a popular football field at a village near Maqdadiyah city, some 100 km from Baghdad, reported Xinhua citing a local police source. In another incident, an Iraqi army colonel was shot dead ...

  • UK Soldier Deaths Court Ruling Will Harm Combat Missions

    LONDON The British government warned on Wednesday that future combat operations could become more difficult after a court ruled that families of three soldiers killed in Iraq could sue the military for failing to protect troops on active duty. Britain's Supreme Court upheld the claim of relatives that the Human Rights Act applied to troops serving in battle abroad, and rejected the ...

  • Iraqi Voters Cast Ballots in Delayed Elections

    Iraqis in two Sunni-majority provinces are voting Thursday in provincial elections that officials delayed by two months because of security concerns. Tight security, including bans on vehicular traffic, is in place in Anbar province in western Iraq and Ninewah province in the country's south. Some 2.8 million people are eligible to vote in the polls to fill 69 provincial council ...

  • Iraq says proxy war over Syria threatens its neutrality

    By Samia Nakhoul and Patrick Markey BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq is being buffeted by both sides in the civil war raging across its border in Syria and Baghdad's official policy of neutrality is at risk as the conflict spirals into a region-wide proxy war, its foreign minister said. After two years of fighting that has killed more than 93,000 people, Syria's turmoil is dragging its ...

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A Civil Action

The name of the lawyer-protagonist at the heart of Steve Zaillian's true-life legal saga "A Civil Action" is named Jan Schlichtmann, and the first several times we hear it spoken, it seems almost purposely mispronounced to sound like "Slick Man." If Schlichtmann weren't a real person, I would attribute his name to a bad in-joke because it fits his character too perfectly. As played with charisma a ... ...

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  • Iraq intrinsic to Indias strategic positioning for energy security

    NRI News: "In India's growth story, we need energy security and Iraq is intrinsic to India's strategic positioning for purposes of energy security," Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid told on the first visit to Iraq by an Indian foreign minister since ...

  • Gulf Keystone announces its results for the year ended 31 December 2012

    Completion of the agreed five-well appraisal programme in August 2012. Jurassic oil discovery following the drilling of the Sheikh Adi-2 exploration well in November 2012. New Triassic oil discovery following the drilling of Bakrman-1, the first exploration well to target the Bakrman structure. Ber Bahr-1, the first exploration well on the block, was drilled to a TD of 3,930 metres and ...

  • Syria crisis Unesco puts six world heritage sites on endangered list

    o Sites include the ancient cities of Aleppo and Damascuso Cameron rejects role for Iran at Geneva conferenceo Election candidate killed in Iraq bomb ...

  • Spreading shakedowns and distrust of authorities embolden al-Qaida in Iraqs restive Mosul

    FILE - In this file photo taken on Jan. 16, 2012 Iraqi security forces inspect bombs at the scene of a car bomb attack outside the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Qaida's Iraq arm is gaining strength in the restive northern city of Mosul, reviving its fundraising efforts through gangland-style shakedowns, feeding off anti-government anger ...

  • In northern Iraqi city al-Qaida gathers strength

    View Photo Associated Press - FILE - in this file photo taken on Jan. 16, 2012 Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack outside the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of ...

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