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Iraq, Sanofi partner to boost healthcare
Shafaq News
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2025-07-27T12:40:26+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq’s Ministry of Health signed a memorandum of understanding with French pharmaceutical company Sanofi on Sunday to expand medical training, combat counterfeit...
Iraqi politician convicted in corruption case, sentence suspended
Shafaq News
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2025-07-27T14:42:02+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq’s Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court has handed a one-year suspended prison sentence to Jamal al-Karbouli, a prominent Sunni political figure and head of the...
Iraqi police clash with PMF fighters in Baghdad
The New Arab
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July 27, 2025
The gunmen belonged to brigades affiliated with Kataib Hezbollah, the interior ministry said. [Getty] A gun battle erupted in Iraq's capital on Sunday between police and fighters from a state-sanctioned paramilitary force that includes Iran-backed...
Iraqi police clash with paramilitary fighters who stormed government building
The Indian Express
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July 27, 2025
A gun battle erupted in Iraq’s capital on Sunday between police and fighters from a state-sanctioned paramilitary force that includes Iran-backed groups, killing at least one police officer and leading to the arrest of 14 fighters, authorities...
Blistering Heatwave Grips Iraq
MENAFN
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July 28, 2025
(MENAFN) An intense heatwave is gripping Iraq, pushing temperatures beyond 50 degrees Celsius across 13 provinces on Monday, according to a statement from the Iraqi Meteorological Organization and Seismology. The peak temperature hit 51 degrees...
Iraq shuts government offices as temperatures hit 52°C
Gulf News
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The order affects Basra, Dhi Qar, Maysan, Karbala, Diwaniyah, Babil and Wasit provinces, and was issued “to ensure the safety of citizens and public sector employees,” the government said in a statement. The closure, which took effect immediately,...
Three years on, Is PM Al-Sudani responsible for Iraq’s failing services?
Shafaq News
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Shafaq News – Baghdad When Mohammed Shia al-Sudani assumed the premiership in 2022, he declared a clear priority: building a “services government.” From electricity and water to healthcare and education, his cabinet pledged to reverse Iraq’s...
Iraq’s Parliament: High pay, low productivity
Shafaq News
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Shafaq News Beneath the domed chamber of Iraq’s parliament, 329 legislators convene in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone. Most receive an average of 1.296 billion Iraqi dinars—over $980,000—across a single four-year term, covering salaries, security...
Beyond 50°C: How decades of conflict are heating Iraq
Shafaq News
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Shafaq News Iraq is entering an era of dangerous heat extremes, with summer temperatures regularly soaring beyond 50°C. While global climate change is a major factor, experts increasingly point to the environmental legacy of decades of war as a...
Montana Radio Host Goes Under Important Medical Procedure
Montana Talks
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July 28, 2025
After I told her the good news that the procedure was complete, my mom told me that she was so glad I did it. Her dad, my grandpa, died from colon cancer in his early 50s. Getting ready for a colonoscopy reminded me of jumping out of airplanes in...
Iraq’s inflation eases in June as food, housing prices decline
Shafaq News
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July 26, 2025
2025-07-26T12:04:50+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Consumer prices in Iraq fell in June, driven by lower food and housing costs, the Ministry of Planning said on Saturday. Monthly inflation dropped 1.2% compared to...
Sir David Nabarro, energetic global health expert
The Times
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With a steady voice, unflinching gaze and a notebook stained with blood, David Nabarro recounted the “fog of moaning and crying” as he tried to help the victims of a bombing in August 2003 at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, which was used by the UN as...
Record heat strains Iraqi economy
Shafaq News
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July 27, 2025
2025-07-27T19:10:49+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad A record-breaking heatwave is imposing growing economic costs on Iraq, disrupting power supplies, reducing crop yields, and cutting labor productivity, an Iraqi...
Gunfight in Baghdad kills one as paramilitary group storms ministry
Yahoo News
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At least one police officer was killed and 14 fighters detained after a gun battle erupted in Iraq’s capital with members of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a state-sanctioned paramilitary umbrella that includes groups loyal to Iran. The...
Iraqi policeman killed and a number injured in clashes with Iran-backed militia
The National News
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Clashes erupted in Baghdad on Sunday between Iraqi security troops and an Iran-backed Shiite militia, leaving one police officer dead. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani has ordered an investigation after members of the militant group...
Iraq's Sayyed al-Sistani urges action over worsening famine in Gaza
Al Mayadeen
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July 26, 2025
Iraq's top religious authority, Sayyed Ali al-Sistani, calls on the world to act immediately to end the famine and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Iraq’s top religious authority, Sayyed Ali al-Sistani, issued a statement on Friday decrying the...
Iraq's Parliament Speaker urges UN to intervene in Gaza war
Shafaq News
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2025-07-25T11:52:31+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad On Friday, Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani called on UN Secretary-General António Guterres to take immediate action to halt what he described as the...
Hamid Al-Saadi's fight to save a centuries-old Iraqi musical tradition
The National News
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Hamid Al-Saadi is worried he might be the last one in the lineage, the final master of a musical tradition that dates back centuries. The 67-year-old is recognised as the most prominent practitioner of Iraqi maqam, the only vocalist to have...
Millville glassblowing studio looks to help veterans with PTSD and emotional trauma
WHYY FM - Pennsylvania
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July 30, 2025
The class also introduces participants to mental health support resources in a judgment-free way, officials said. Students learn about programs such as Healing Den in Vineland, the Army Air Field Museum in Millville, Veterans Farmers of New...
Fires, closures hit multiple Iraqi provinces
Shafaq News
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2025-07-26T18:58:51+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Over 170 facilities were shut down in Dhi Qar and multiple fires reported across Iraq on Saturday, amid rising concerns over infrastructure safety and regulatory...