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Bombings, beheadings in Iraq

A bomb exploded Tuesday outside a bank in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing 19 people, including pensioners waiting for checks and child street vendors. In Baghdad, the bodies of 24 men slain in......

Death comes easy in Iraq

Gunmen on Friday killed a city council official in Kirkuk, a contractor renovating a mosque in Samarra and a man standing outside a Baghdad hospital, while several car bombs that targeted US......

More than 5,500 Iraqis killed so far

ABC News, quoting Associated Press, says more than 5,500 Iraqis have died violently in Baghdad, Karbala, Kirkuk and Tikrit provinces in the year since the United States declared it had won the war......

23 killed in Iraq suicide attacks

Suicide bombings struck Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 23 and wounding dozens more in three attacks on an army recruiting centre, a police convoy and civilians, authorities said.In the deadliest......

Iraq: Egypt's envoy abducted

Gunmen seized Egypt's top envoy to Iraq, officials and witnesses said Sunday, in an apparent bid to discourage the country's Arab neighbors from bolstering ties to the embattled US-backed......

RIL shortlisted for multi-billion dollar oil project

Iraq shortlisted Reliance Industries and six other firms for developing its Nasiriya oilfield and the construction of an associated 300,000 barrels per day refinery.Besides RIL, French energy giant......

OVL to invest $1.45 bn in Iraq oil block

ONGC Videsh Ltd, overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, is likely to invest $1.45 billion in an oil block in Iraq that wasawarded to it by the erstwhile Saddam Hussein......

Petro prices hiked by more than Re 1

State run oil companies on Monday raised petrol and diesel prices by upto Rs 1.08 and Rs 1.20 per litre respectively, effective from midnight.Petrol would cost Rs 32.70 per litre in Delhi as......

Iraq awards 1st post-war oil tender to 6 firms

Iraq's state oil marketing company SOMO awarded on Thursday its first post-war crude tender to six companies for 10 million barrels of oil held in storage.The winners are Spanish refiners Repsol......

US-led forces secure 90% of south Iraqi oil

US-led forces have secured 80-90 per cent of Iraq's southern oil production capacity and aim to get Iraqi oil workers back on the job soon, a senior US army officer said on Friday.Colonel Michael......

People speak for kirkuk

QNA

Q. Rome. Jerusalem, Damascus are among the oldest cities in the world? Name two more cities that can come into this category?
: A. Gaziantep, Turkey (3650 B.C.)Jerusalem, Israel (3000 B.C.Kirkuk, Iraq (3000 B.CZurich, Switzerland (3000 B.CKonya, Turkey (2600 B.C.Giza, Egypt...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/rome.-jerusalem-damascus-are-among-the-oldest-cities-in-the-//answers/16667989

Q. The oldest city in the world is........
Good Citizen: A. Answering which settlements are the oldest cities in the world is fraught with debate, and guesswork. For example, how does one define city? If...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/the-oldest-city-in-the-world-is......../16667946/answers/9237676

Q. Where are you Swati tanmaya Mishra ?Are u o.k. ? Please , mail me if possible.
Prasad Ugaragol: A. Hey Pandey. she is in Kirkuk city of Iraq. Go find her there more

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Pumping Iraqi oil resumed to Turkey

Shafaq News reported that Iraq resumed pumping crude oil through the pipeline linking Kirkuk and Ceyhan, after a bomb blast caused the halt of oil... ...

http://www.steelguru.com/middle_east_news/Pumping_Iraqi_oil_resumed_to_Turkey/312567.html

OIC condemns Terrorist Attacks in Iraq

Jeddah, May 18th (BNA) -Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned the continued terrorist attacks that aimed places of worship in Kirkuk,... ...

http://www.calcuttanews.net/index.php/sid/214602441/scat/b8de8e630faf3631

Gunmen kidnap five policemen as clashes erupt in Iraq

Armed tribesmen clashed with Iraqi troops on Saturday in the Sunni-dominated province of Anbar, where gunmen kidnapped five policemen, security... ...

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/gunmen-kidnap-five-policemen-as-clashes-erupt-in-iraq/article4727714.ece

Mosques targetted in Iraq, Pakistan, 51 killed

Malakand/Baghdad: Extremist rebels targetted Muslim places of worship on the Islamic holy day of Friday in several parts of the embattled Muslim... ...

http://kashmirobserver.net/news/world-news/mosques-targetted-iraq-pakistan-51-killed

Two blasts outside Sunni Muslim mosque kill 43

Baquba: Two bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left Friday prayers, killing at least 43 people... ...

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/iraq-two-blasts-outside-sunni-muslim-mosque-kill-43/392379-2.html

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