Wednesday, August 15 / August 2012 07:00
A member of the Committee of Economy and Investment parliamentary Abdul-Abbas broadly anti-poverty strategy that will reduce the poverty rate in the country from 23% to 16% in 2014. (more…)
Posted on 03 July 2012
Iraq’s government may soon shut down for much of the summer, says an article from Associated Press. A proposed law aims to shorten workdays and help public employees avoid soaring temperatures.
It will also cut work hours during Ramadan, which this year begins on 20th July, but the law would for the first time legalise the slowdown for the country’s government. (more…)
28.05.2012Baghdad – Abdel Ali Salman
Initiated by the Associated Press report about the conditions of crumbling schools in Iraq by saying that the goats feed on the garbage scattered around inside the front yard of the primary school in Baquba, and inside there rotting roofs and clogged toilets, while the students sit crammed in rows. (more…)
BAQOUBA, Iraq (AP) — Outside the crumbling elementary school, goats feed on trash strewn across the front yard. Inside, the ceiling is rotting, toilets don’t work and students scrunch hip-to-hip behind narrow desks.
The World Bank warned of a slowdown in the global economy, expressing his concerns that affect strongly on developing countries.
The economic outlook of the World Bank Aattartfaa in the net world GDP is estimated at 2.5% in 2012 after estimated growth rate of 2.7% in 2011 , noting that growth will improve in 2013 and will reach 3.1%.
The World Bank warned that developing countries must be prepared to risk a new decline, while the debt crisis in the euro area and weak growth in many emerging economies, the major negative impact on growth prospects in the world
AP: Kuwait opposition: Government offers resignations
By BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait faced a fresh bout of political uncertainty on Monday after opposition lawmakers said the government has submitted its resignation to the Gulf nation’s ruler amid a growing crisis over corruption accusations.
However, there was no official word on such a move, which could lead to parliament being dissolved and new elections — if it’s accepted by Kuwait’s emir. (more…)
U.S. troops have begun the first wave of their final withdrawal from Iraq, and are on schedule for a complete pull-out by the end of the year.
It marks the end of a long military engagement in Iraq, at one time involving 176,000 military personnel in the country.
They leave behind them a very different country, and as they are moving out, even more investment is moving in. (more…)
Quoted by the Associated Press to a senior U.S. official on condition of anonymity as saying that all U.S. troops will leave Iraq after 2011, except 160 military to protect the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
The Agency, on Saturday, that the Pentagon was planning to keep the five thousand troops to train Iraqi forces and limit Iranian influence.
CAMP SPEICHER, Iraq (AP) — For U.S. Army Pfc. Walter Stiles, the road out of Iraq begins by kicking tires on a dusty military base near the village where Saddam Hussein was born and buried.
The drive ahead is long and dangerous — down Iraq’s main north-south highway, a prime target for bombings. It’s a trip he must complete several times this month, part of a security escort for 53 trucks hauling fuel and equipment out of the country in a massive push to shutter U.S. bases by the year’s end.
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5-20-2011
Baghdad (news) .. revealed to the Integrity Committee in the House of Representatives that the U.S. side refused to say specifically on the mechanism for the disbursal of funds for the program (the reconstruction of Iraq).
A member of the MP / menu Iraqi / Talal Khudair Zobaie told the reporter Agency (news) today announced that the Committee began to examine all aspects of the program, noting that the Committee had found that there is a lot of money lost in this program, indicating At the same time that the U.S. side refused to say specifically on the mechanism for the disbursal of funds allocated for this program.
He said the Committee has a plan to stem its implementation in order to get information about this program, pointing out that the Commission had written to the guidance office, financial control, some of the relevant authorities to inquire about this subject.
Lawmaker Layla Hassan, a member of an investigatory panel, says that there are reports that some 20,000 people with fake educational certificates are employed in governmental jobs.
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BAGHDAD – The Feed – A member of the Alliance of center-MP Jawad al-Iraqi to Iraq today, live the atmosphere of a true democracy because of the demonstrators to Friday second consecutive year.
He Bolani told Naba public opinion (and babysit): that the demonstrators came out for the second day in a row in Tahrir Square, demanding their legitimate rights, adding that members of parliament support these peaceful demonstrations.
Iraq’s newly appointed oil minister said on Saturday that oil exports from the country’s northern self-ruled Kurdish region would soon resume as part of the country’s national oil export policy.
The Kurds have sought greater control over oil in their crude-rich region while Baghdad has argued that the oil is a national resource, under the central government’s control.
Iraqi Kurds have unilaterally signed more than two dozens oil deals with Western companies that are deemed illegal by Baghdad. Exports were halted a few months after they started in June 2009 amid a disagreement over payments.
Abdul-Karim Elaibi told The Associated Press the exports from the Kurdish region would be resumed “in the coming few days.” He didn’t set a date or elaborate on how the exports would be part of the nation’s export strategy.
Earlier this month, Elaibi’s predecessor, Hussain al-Shahristani, said a dispute over how private companies accounted for equipment costs and other expenses for reimbursement has been settled, clearing the way for the exports to resume.
