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  • Gunmen kill 4 Iraqi soldiers north of Baghdad

    The attack followed a spike in violence last week that left nearly 300 people killed. Alarmed by a nationwide deterioration in the security situation, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered a reshuffle in senior military ...

  • Bin Shabib and Associates host reception in Erbil with French Business Council Dubai and Northern Emirates

    This month Bin Shabib & Associates (BSA) LLP supported the French Business Council Dubai and Northern Emirates, in hosting reception at the Divan hotel in ...

  • Are the dark days returning to Iraq

    Monthly death toll has doubled in Iraq; now highest figure since end of war Increasing toll is related to authoritarian streak of PM Nuri al-Maliki, says Shashank Joshi Joshi: Sectarian is closely linked to protests, concentrated in Sunni-majority areas Too early to talk about Iraq's break-up, he says, but there's no obvious way out of ...

  • Iraq urged to cut public spending

    The International Monetary Fund has urged Iraq to build up its weak fiscal buffers, as the oil producer's economy remains highly vulnerable to the oil market, AFP has reported. Iraq has maintained macroeconomic stability "in a difficult security and political environment," the IMF executive board said. "Risks to the macroeconomic outlook remain high," the board said, ...

  • Brothel shootout in Baghdad leaves 12 dead

    Unknown gunmen stormed a brothel in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 12 people, security and medical officials told AFP.At least seven women and five men were shot in the suburb of Zayouna, which is renowned for its redlight district.There is no further information on the identity of the ...

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Change of Habit [DVD]

Change of Habit [DVD]

The late 1960s was an incredibly turbulent era for Hollywood. Trapped in what appeared to be a never-ending downward spiral, many of the studios were in dire economic straits and were being bought up for the first time by large conglomerates. In many ways, Hollywood had lost its sense of identity, as the blockbuster formulas that had worked so well in the early 1960s no longer held sway with the ... ...

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  • Iraqi PM orders army shuffle to combat violence

    By-standers look at the wreck of a bomb used in a sectarian suicide attack in Baghdad. AFP Photo Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki has called for serious change in the senior ranks of Iraq's armed ...

  • Iraqi Police Gunmen Kill at Least 12 in Baghdad Brothel

    Civilians gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, ...

  • Iraqi government still using bomb detectors it knows are faulty

    In 2008 or so, magical ADE651 "bomb detectors" began turning up at Iraqi-managed checkpoints. Almost immediately, people I knew who seemed to know something about explosives were laughing about them. Even people like me who knew nothing about explosives were laughing about them, since they looked like old television antennas sticking out of the spout of a trigger-handled garden hose - ...

  • The Tyrant of ash-Sham and the Iranian Regime and its Hizb in Lebanon Repeat Hulagus Destruction of Baghdad in Qusair

    Approximately seven centuries ago in the year 656 AH, Hulagu Khan destroyed Baghdad after a severe siege. People were massacred in large numbers, houses and mosques were demolished, books and libraries were burned, and crops and livestock were destroyed. The Tigris River, penetrating Baghdad, was witness to this destruction as its water was diluted with human blood and the ink from books. Today ...

  • 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 ...

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