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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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Dangerous Beauty

Dangerous Beauty

"Dangerous Beauty" is a really nothing more than a grandiose soap opera set in Venice circa 1583. It is beautifully filmed, wonderfully acted, and certainly nothing short of entertaining, but it lacks any true fundamental seriousness. Dealing with themes of forbidden love, religious intolerance, subordination of women, sexual freedom, and the roles of pleasure and sin in a high-cultured society, i ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • BP to invest $2.85 billion in Iraqs largest oilfield

    BP.L ) 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 ...

  • BPs Investment in Iraq to Reach $5B by 2016

    ABU DHABI - U.K. oil major BP plc plans to increase the production capacity at the Rumaila oilfield, the largest in Iraq, by 750,000 barrels per day by 2017, and aims to increase its spending in the country to $5 billion a year from the current $2.6 billion by 2016, a senior executive said Wednesday. "We are doing about 1.4 million barrels a day now from RumailaWe have a plan to add ...

  • Iraqi premier orders army shake-up after attacks

    BAGHDAD -- Iraq's prime minister has ordered a shake-up of his military command after a weeklong spike of militant attacks that has killed nearly 300 people, by far the highest toll since the U.S. withdrew its forces in late 2011, an official said Wednesday.The shake-up will include commanders of divisions and operations, said Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Moussawi.It indicates the ...

  • Iraqi spokesman PM orders shakeup among military commanders in wake of deadly attacks

    BAGHDAD - An Iraqi government spokesman says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered changes in senior ranks of the military in the wake of bloody attacks that have killed dozens of people in the past few days. Ali al-Moussawi said on Wednesday that the shakeup will include commanders of divisions and operation commands nationwide. Al-Moussawi would not give more details on the decree, which ...

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