Iraqi farmers can no longer grow rice in their fields as water levels from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers have become dangerously low, a senior agriculture official said.
“We have ordered the farmers to stop growing rice across the province for this year’s summer season,” said Nasser Manatti, head of the Agriculture Department in...
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Pictures of the two brothers stare out, side by side, separated by the gulf of a quarter century. Rahim Jabr died in 1981, a foot soldier in the bloody eight year war with Iran, while Naeem was a casualty of the savage sectarian fighting that gripped Baghdad in 2006.
They were reunited in the end,...
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"He had not been out of prison long. There are many others like him."
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The title of this posting is a quote from Munaf Abdul-Rahim al-Rawi, a former prisoner at the American run Camp Bucca. He is one of those accused of being behind the bloodbath of the Ministry bombings of August 19th 2009. I...
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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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In the English language reporting on Irak for May 15th Al Arabiya carried a story by AFP about the Baghdad University students of Hebrew:
"At the festival, the joyous mood was tempered by bemusement among students at the peculiar circumstances that led them to study Hebrew and the lack of job opportunities for graduates.
None of...
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There are no prizes for guessing what the main story of the day in the English language coverage of Irak was, :-) but that wasn’t all that happened. We found a story on the how trade unions are trying to get a labour protection law passed, things are not as rosy with Turkey as...
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يخطط العراق لاستيراد 80 بالمائة من احتياجاته من القمح والأرز خلال عام 2010، وفقاً لغازي حسين، المتحدث باسم شركة الحبوب المملوكة للدولة والتابعة لوزارة التجارة.
وتظهر أرقام وزارة التجارة أن العراق استورد 3.55 مليون طن من القمح و1.17 مليون طن من الأرز في العام الماضي، وهو ما يشكل ارتفاعاً مقارنة بالكميات المستوردة من القمح والأرز...
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BAGHDAD, 29 April 2010 (IRIN) – Iraq is planning to import 80 percent of its wheat and rice requirements in 2010, according to Hussein Ghazy, a spokesman of the state-owned Grains Company affiliated to the Trade Ministry.
Trade Ministry figures show Iraq imported 3.55 million tons of wheat and 1.17 million tons of rice...
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Secret prison for Sunnis revealed in Baghdad – latimes.com:
Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared for months into a secret Baghdad prison under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s military office, where many were routinely tortured until the country’s Human Rights Ministry gained access to the facility, Iraqi officials say.
The men were detained...
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اختفى مدير دائرة الرعاية الاجتماعية في ذي قار تهربا من ترك منصبه وتسليم مهام عمله الى الإدارة الجديدة بعد أن صوت مجلس المحافظة بالإجماع على اقالته بسبب ضعف أدائه الإداري وتشخيص بعض الخروقات القانونية والمالية . وقال معاون رئيس المجلس للشؤون الإدارية حميد نعيم الغزي لصحيفة الصباح الاحد ، انه بعد...
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