Archive for October 21, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House official says President Barack Obama will announce Friday that U.S. troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the year.

The announcement will allow the U.S. to say definitively that the war in Iraq is over after eight years. The official says the partnership between the U.S. and Iraq will become a normal one between two sovereign nations.

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21/10/2011 14:54

Baghdad, October 21 / October (Rn) – The parliamentary Finance Committee on Friday that the Iraqi government decided to adopt the price of oil is $ 80 a barrel instead of $ 85 in the 2012 budget pursuant to the observations of the International Monetary Fund.

Said committee member Abdul-Hussein al-Yasiri told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the Iraqi government re-file the budget in 2012 to the Ministry of Finance to amend the prices of crude oil on which the budget and reduced from $ 85 to $ 80 a barrel oil.”

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20/10/2011 20:01

Baghdad, October 20 / October (Rn) – Iraqi economists said Thursday that the re-structuring of government banks were not the required level.

The economist said Majed Radhi told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the Iraqi government did not provide any obvious relevance to the restructuring of State-owned banks and development in terms of banking, credit, and cash.”

“The problem of the reluctance of the work of government banks, one of the main problems facing Iraq in expanding the base of the investment and economic projects and opening up the economies of the world.”

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Baghdad (news) .. called a member of Paradise financial and MP / Kurdistan Alliance / Najiba Najib to set priorities for loans granted by the Ministry of Finance staff and others as they would be a burden on the budget in spite of its impacts positively on the domestic market and the economy of Iraq.

said Najib said in a statement (of the Agency news) on Friday: that the loans granted by the Ministry of Finance in the government banks, both (100) salary, or (5) million would be a burden on the state budget, although its impacts positively on the domestic market by increasing demand for construction materials, agricultural and food and this situation will increase the movement economic development in the country.

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Iraqi stock market began to attract a growing source of foreign investors who see it as an attractive investment with the expectation of growing demand which is expected after insertion of the shares of three companies the main operator of mobile phone services in the country and improve regulation.

Chief Executive of the Iraqi Stock Exchange, Taha Abdul-Salam said in a statement to the media, said that “the values ​​of shares traded in the year to September 30 rose to $ 495 million compared with $ 337 million in 2010 as a whole.”

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Posted 21/10/2011 06:06 AM

Baghdad – Majed Fadhil: The phenomenon of child labor takes an important place at the sight of the Iraqi street is reflected on the community in general and children in particular. And touch in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, especially in mobile shops and temporarily erected on the roads, and industrial districts children who work hard are not commensurate with their age and long periods of currency extends to the end of the day for wages is simple.

It takes the exploitation of children takes many forms the most important of child labor and servitude in the work of non-qualified physically and mentally to do, note that many of the international conventions criminalized economic exploitation of children, including (States Parties recognize the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be harmful or interfere with the child learns, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development.

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On: Friday 21/10/2011 11:13

Baghdad (news) .. revealed the Ministry of Planning that the rates of implementation of the National Development Plan until the end of August amounted to 38%.

The Deputy Minister for Technical Affairs Sami when Paul Chairman of the Technical Committee to prepare the plan in a statement to the Agency (news): The National Development Plan have achieved up to the end of last August, 38% of the rates of implementation, attributing this to the delay in approving the plan.

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On: Wed, 20/10/2011 16:35

Baghdad (news) .. Search Prime Minister Ruz Nuri Shaways today with representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq Martin Kobler, the role of the UN mission in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

A statement of the Office of Shaways received Agency (news) a copy of it on Thursday: The two sides held talk in the potential role of the UN mission in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. forces, and developments in the Iraqi political arena.

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BAGHDAD – Babinaoz: Iraqi stock market attracts foreign investors increasingly see it as an attractive investment with the expectation of growing demand is expected after insertion of the shares of three companies the main operator of mobile phone services in the country and improve regulation.

Iraqi stock market is still small compared with other stock exchanges in the region and international stock markets, but the drop in violence since the height of sectarian fighting in 2006-2007 and increase the possibility of the rapid growth of interest in them.

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Posted 21/10/2011 06:21 AM

BAGHDAD – Babinaoz: source revealed that Iraqi officials were able through delegates representing them to get half of the shares of five companies British bases, some recently, with the work of others to get on the shares of the k »gift» against the award of contracts and licenses to work in Iraq.

The source said that these companies get contracts in amounts of up to one billion dollars, or slightly less in several areas, will be awarded some of monopolies in the areas of work and invest for long periods.

He added that the clubs of London has seen in recent times many meetings have resulted in deals have enabled these companies to enter the investment market of Iraq to serve therefore profits in the pockets of those Iraqi officials, which is a face «innovative» aspects of administrative corruption and financial numerous.

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Friday, to build a new Libya prevail justice and respect, after their exit from the “tyrant Gaddafi.”

A statement from the office of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, has received “Twilight News” copy of it, saying that “the similarity of the fate of dictators in Iraq and Libya, evidence of the ability of peoples to defeat dictators important Tafranoa, and take charge of her industry, present and future.”

Maliki called the statement “the brotherly Libyan people to maintain unity and cohesion for the construction of a new Libya prevail justice and freedom,” returned to “the end of Gaddafi marks the beginning of a new phase of security, stability and democracy in Libya, sister.”

It is said that the Libyan Transitional Council, announced, on Thursday, killing Muammar Gaddafi, after months of fighting between the militants and al-Gaddafi.

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Ministry of Planning confirmed on Thursday that finding employment for large numbers of unemployed can only be achieved through investment projects, noting that Baghdad is witnessing very active by the representatives of foreign companies to enter into investment contracts.

Said Ministry spokesman planning Abdul Venus Hindawi for “twilight News”, “There large numbers of graduates and owners professions suffer from unemployment, and it can find jobs them only by activate investment sectors.”

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Likely representative for a coalition of state law the refusal of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s nomination for the Iraqi List MP Atab league for the post of defense minister.

The MP said Abdul Salam al-Maliki told all of Iraq [where] Friday, “Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will reject the nomination of the Iraqi List MP for Atab league for the post of Defense Minister.”

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21/10/2011 09:32

Baghdad, October 21 / October (Rn) – The Council of the province of Baghdad, Friday, to achieve high rates of completion of projects through the payment of 70% of the financial allocations within the budget of 2011, revealing near the start of the implementation of five vital projects after obtaining approval of the Council of Ministers.

A commission of economy and investment in the parliamentary earlier received a report from the government shows that some of the ministries and the provinces did not happen, only 5% of its own funds for the current year up to July 30 last year.

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On: Friday 21/10/2011 10:30

Baghdad (news) .. most likely adviser to the prime minister for the Kurdistan region just Berwari, to approve the political blocs to grant immunity to trained Americans after the coming of the delegation of U.S. diplomat upcoming visit to Baghdad.

The leaders of political blocs have agreed not to give coaches the Americans immunity, emphasizing the need for Iraqi forces to the experts and foreign coaches, without immunity to them.

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