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  • BP to invest $2.85bn in Iraqs largest oilfield

    Oil major BP has allocated $2.85 billion to develop Iraq's Rumaila oilfield in 2013, up from $2.2 billion last year, the head of the joint management committee for the field told Reuters On ...

  • Iraq gets final helicopter delivery

    The U.S. Army reports its Project Office for Armed Scout Helicopters has completed deliveries of 407 Bell Helicopters to Iraq. The final delivery consisted of three aircraft, bringing the number of armed 407s handed over to Iraq by the Army's Redstone Arsenal to 24. "First, our Army is providing an armed scout capability to our allies in the country of Iraq," said Lt. Col. Chris ...

  • Iraq Gunmen kill 12 in Baghdad brothel

    gunmen burst into the brothel in the well-to-do eastern district of Zayouna, known for being a religiously mixed neighborhood with several similar establishments. Police said another man and woman were also wounded, and that one of the gunmen wrote "Wanted" on the wall of the house. Prostitution ...

  • Iraq may meet about 50 increase in world oil exports through 2030 Nahyan

    WAM Abu Dhabi, 22nd May 2013 (WAM) - Given Iraq's huge oil and gas reserves and rapid development of upstream and downstream sectors, the UAE Minister of Culture, Youth and Social Development, Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, expected Iraq to meet about 50% increase in oil exports in the world from today through 2030. Delivering the keynote address to Abu Dhabi to a key conference ...

  • Iraq’s Al Maliki continues to insist bogus device detects IEDs

    Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD -- Iraq, in wake of a British court ruling, still insists that the thousands of British-origin fake bomb detectors remain effective. The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki continues to claim that the ADE-651 hand-held device can actually detect bombs. The claims have come from Al Maliki as well as senior ministers in his Cabinet amid the ...

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La bête humaine [DVD]

La bête humaine [DVD]

Rarely has the title of a film been more seemingly blunt in denoting its view of humanity than Jean Renoirs La bte humaine, which translates as The Human Beast. However, the film is not nearly as complete in its dark view of human nature as the title or the source novel by mi ... ...

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  • What Will Arrested Development Be Without the Iraq War

    Within its many layers of jokes, meta-jokes, cultural references and series-long gags that made "Arrested Development" the beloved and recently resuscitated show it is today, the Iraq War provided a great deal of material for the ...

  • Attack in Baghdad Brothel Kills 12 Three More Killed in Mosul

    Baghdad, May 22 (Prensa Latina) The epicenter of violence in Iraq today is located in the most unexpected place, a brothel, where unknown men shot and killed seven women and five men today, the Interior Ministry reported. The attackers arrived at the brothel at noon, and without saying a word opened fire using light-duty rifles and then left in an unknown direction, noted the report, which said ...

  • Iraqs demand for Hello Kitty keeps one Aleppo factory open as others close doors

    Aleppo was once the economic heart of Syria, with factories ringing the city. But war destruction and a lack of electricity and materials has caused most of them to shut ...

  • BP Chevron Total and other major oil firms seek new terms in Iraq

    Iraq are negotiating to revise their contracts with the government, as new production targets undermine the profitability of their operations. Iraq's government earlier this year revised down its national oil output targets to 9.5 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2020, up from about 3 million bpd today, as part of a new blueprint for the development of its energy sector. The new strategy ...

  • Iraq - Iraqi journalist threatened for reporting on corruption

    Iraqi authorities must launch an investigation into a May 14 episode in which a group of armed men raided the home of a journalist and briefly abducted his brother. The journalist, Azhar Shallal, had recently written about alleged corruption.The assailants, discovering Shallal was not home, kidnapped his brother and interrogated him for a few hours, news ...

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