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  • Iraqi PM orders army shakeup after deadly attacks

    BAGHDAD (AP) -- 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 ...

  • Iraq to assemble Iranian cars IKCO

    Samand Soren is a new family saloon created by Iran Khodro Industrial Group in 2007. Iranian carmaker Iran Khodro will establish an assembly line with the capacity of 30,000 units per year in the Iraqi city of Iskandariya by the next month.Preliminary agreements were made three years ago, IRNA quoted Iran Khodro deputy director for exports Abdol'azim Sa'dian as saying. Iran Khodro has ...

  • Baird Iraq could face civil war

    Ottawa - A spate of deadly violence risks plunging Iraq into a sectarian civil war, Canada's top diplomat warned on Tuesday, adding that a Canadian was among the latest ...

  • In Iraq pointing a finger at others will not help says paper

    WAM ABU DHABI: Pointing a finger at others will not help in Iraq as Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki says that it is a plot to destabilise the country and sow sectarian and ethnic discord, a local newspaper remarked today. "As far as objectivity is concerned, he is right," said the Khaleej Times in an editorial comment on the new trend of violence which is "a deja vu of 2006-07 ...

  • Iraqi PM orders reshuffle of top security officers

    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered a reshuffle of top security officers after recent attacks left hundreds of people killed and wounded, a government statement said on Wednesday."The Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces Nuri al-Maliki today after consultation with security officials issued decrees of changes in the operations command and the commands of divisions," ...

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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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  • Three Civilian Wounded Northwest Baghdad

    Baghdad, May 22 (BNA) - Three civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb went off on Wednesday northwest of Baghdad. A police source said that a bomb exploded on a minibus in the Hurriya area, northwest of Baghdad, wounding three civilians, according to the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA). Baghdad and a number of provinces had witnessed a significant security deterioration in the past few ...

  • More attacks across Iraq leave 7 people dead

    BAGHDAD--New attacks in Iraq killed seven people and wounded dozens on Tuesday, officials said, after a bloody day that claimed more than 100 lives across the ...

  • Turkey eyes oil gas deals with Iraqi Kurdistan in 2013

    ANKARA | Wed May 22, 2013 2:51am EDT ANKARA May 22 (Reuters) - Turkey is looking to sign commercial contracts this year with Russian and U.S. companies operating in northern Iraq for joint oil and gas exploration, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told Reuters. "We are likely to be involved with Russian and American companies in northern Iraq for different projects like oil and ...

  • Hundreds killed in upsurge of terror bombings sectarian killings in Iraq

    A wave of violence is shaking the neo-colonial Iraqi regime that emerged from the US war and occupation of Iraq, as sectarian tensions between Iraq's bourgeois factions are inflamed by the savage US-led proxy war in neighbouring Syria.In this past week, more than 200 people have been killed in car bomb attacks in a number of Iraqi cities. The worst violence was in Baghdad, where car bombs ...

  • US soldier John Russell gets life in prison for Camp Liberty killings in Iraq

    Army Sergeant John Russell was convicted earlier this week over the murders at a clinic for soldiers suffering from war-related stress at Camp Liberty, the largest US base in ...

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