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  • Iraq suicide bomber kills 5 ahead of vote

    Iraqi military vehicles in front of a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday following a suicide bombing. A suicide bomb attack in north Iraq on Wednesday killed the leader of a local political party and four relatives, officials said, on the eve of provincial elections his bloc was to participate ...

  • Relatives can sue over UK troops Iraq deaths

    The body of soldier Stephen Allbutt arrives at RAF Brize Norton in Britain on 15 April, 2003, after he was killed in Iraq. Relatives of British soldiers killed while fighting in Iraq can sue the government for negligence and claim damages under human rights law, the Supreme Court in London ruled on ...

  • Suicide bomber embraces and kills Sunni politician in Iraq

    MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up as he embraced a Sunni Muslim political leader in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing the man and four of his family a day before elections in the ...

  • Western Unions new Iraq agent

    Western Union has signed up the Investment Bank of Iraq to offer the complete range of Western Union services across all its 19 branches. The bank has branches in Baghdad, Basra, Karablaa and ...

  • Iran Syria Iraq to sign major gas deal on Monday

    Iran, Syria and Iraq will sign a major gas deal here on Monday to transfer Iran's South Pars natural gas to Europe, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Sunday.Iran's caretaker oil minister Mohammad Aliabadi as well as oil ministers of Iraq and Syria will join the ceremony and choose a name for the pipeline to transfer Iran's gas to Europe, Iranian Deputy Oil Minister ...

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  • Kuwait says port project to continue despite Iraqi opposition

    Kuwait said Wednesday it was " determined to go ahead with" the construction of a port which neighboring Iraq said would affect its shipping lanes.Kuwaiti government spokesman Ali Al-Rashid said the Gulf emirate "won't be intimidated by any remarks," referring to those from Baghdad earlier Wednesday which called the construction of the Mubarak Al-Kabir port on ...

  • Iran calls on Iraq to deploy forces in borderlines to keep Kurdish rebels away

    A senior commander of Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said Wednesday that the guard's forces would continue destructive and invasive operations against the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) group until the deployment of Iraqi forces in the borders, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.The unnamed military official said that, "Iraqi government should deploy police ...

  • UPDATE 1-Iraqi Kurds say new oil pipeline to Turkey to start soon

    Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:53am EDT * Pipeline capacity to increase to 1 mln bpd by 2015-Hawrami * Sales via federal pipeline depend on permanent solution * Natural gas exports to Turkey seen by 2016 By Julia Payne and Peg Mackey LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdistan will start a new oil pipeline to Turkey within months, its energy minister said, increasing the autonomous region's control over ...

  • Iraq damages cases Families of soldiers killed on the battlefield can sue the Government for negligence

    The decision means that claims can now proceed to trial.A group of families started legal action as a result of the deaths of a number of soldiers, judges have ...

  • Iraq - Iraqi government detains two journalists without charge

    The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the detention of two Iraqi journalists who have been held for two weeks without formal charge or access to a lawyer in connection with the alleged theft of a senior official's notebook.Police arrested Mohammed Fouad, a journalist for the independent satellite channel ANB, and his assistant, Afdhel Jumaa, at the Ministry of Defense in ...

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