Mixture of motives persuades villages to maintain practice that often leaves lasting effects on young girls
The old Kurdish midwife’s hands trembled alongside a bowl that she positions to catch dripping blood. She picked up a razor blade and sliced through a corner of paper, mimicking the ritual cut she has performed at least 500...
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أعرب رئيس الجمهورية والأمين العام للاتحاد الوطني الكردستاني جلال طالباني اليوم الثلاثاء عن أمله في ان تسهم زيارة المسؤولين وأعضاء الوفود اليوم إلى محافظة السليمانية والمشاركة في مؤتمر الاتحاد على تشجيع الاستثمار في العراق. وأوضح طالباني في كلمته خلال انعقاد المؤتمر الثالث للاتحاد في السليمانية أملنا ان تسهم زيارتكم لكردستان العراق...
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Seven years after the US and Britain invaded Iraq, the country remains highly unstable and fragmented. So divided are parties and communities that no government has emerged from the general election three months ago, which was intended to be a crucial staging post in Iraq’s return to normality. Political leaders have not even started...
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كشفت لجنة التحقيق، التي شكلها مسعود برزاني للتحقيق في مقتل الطالب والصحافي الكردي سردشت عثمان قبل ثلاثة أسابيع، عن النتائج الأولية لتحقيقاتها الجارية على عدة مستويات لكشف المتورطين في الحادث المذكور.
وأشارت اللجنة في تقرير إلى «أنه في يوم 4/5/2010 تقدم المدعي عثمان حسن والد الطالب سردشت بشكوى لدى مركز شرطة آزادي بمدينة أربيل،...
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Hundreds of Turkish firms have flocked to the semi-independent Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq, benefiting from a newly issued law easing curbs on foreign investments.
Latest figures by the Kurdistan Investment Commission show that more than half of the foreign firms in the enclave are Turkish.
In a statement, the commission said there were 620...
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The mysterious kidnapping and then killing of a Kurdish journalist in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil has unnerved Iraqi Kurds.
Demonstrations have swept several areas in the region and political parties are demanding an independent investigation.
The journalist Sardashet Othman was critical of the Kurdish regional government and its head, Massoud Barzani.
He wrote extensively on...
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I have concentrated on social and economic issues in selecing articles from English language coverage of Irak. The UN via its World Food Programme hopes to kickstart the labour market as well as reduce food insecurity by running a cash-for-work programme. If the programme succeeds it will be expanded. As my colleague Diya al...
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أدانت هيئة علماء المسلمين في بيان لها صدر اليوم الجريمة النكراء التي اقترفتها مجموعة مسلحة قامت باقتياد الصحفي(سردشت عثمان) يوم 4/ آيار/2010 من حرم كليته في جامعة صلاح الدين في محافظة أربيل إلى جهة غير معلومة ثم وجد مقتولاً وملقياً في مدينة الموصل على قارعة الطريق. وقالت الهيئة...
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قال المتحدث باسم حكومة اقليم كردستان إنه تم تشكيل لجنة تحقيقية وغرفة عمليات تابعة لوزارة داخلية الاقليم بخصوص مقتل الصحفي سردشت عثمان بمتابعة من رئيس الاقليم مسعود البارزاني.
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Anger over bombing of Christian students
Christians caught in crossfire flee Iraq
Students seek safe place for final exams
HAMDANIYA, Iraq, May 13 (Reuters) – Wailing with grief and rage, Iraqi Christians this week buried the teenage victim of a bombing and lamented again their vulnerability in the complex stew...
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