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Thousands protest in Iraq for a second day over burning of Quran in Sweden
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoBASRA, Iraq (AP) — Thousands of followers of a firebrand Iraqi Shiite cleric rallied in major cities...
Soccer fans hopeful ahead of Gulf Cup in Iraqi city of Basra
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFor many Iraqis, the first international soccer tournament their country is hosting in more than...
Clashes in Iraq's Basra kill four as crisis flares in oil-rich south
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Clashes among rival Shi'ite Muslim militants in the Iraqi city of Basra have...
Hicks: Defend democracies on this Veteran’s Day
The Star Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMUNCIE, Ind. – On a beautiful winter dawn three decades ago, I found myself in one of the more dreadful battlefields scenes of the 20th century — the...
Iraqis are furious over their government's demolition of a minaret that stood for nearly 300 years
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFor three centuries, the al-Siraji Mosque, with its minaret fashioned from weathered bricks and its...
Stampede near soccer stadium in Iraq's Basra kills one, dozens injured
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA stampede near a soccer stadium in the city of Basra in southern Iraq killed one person and injured dozens on Thursday, when thousands of fans were trying to enter the stadium, the state news ...
Iraq's water crisis drying up fish farming in Basra
Reuters via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIraq is in the grip of a severe water shortage which has left crop growers and food producers such as Iraqi fish farmer Qasem Karam facing the loss of...
Iraq expects Total to begin $27 bln energy project in second half of 2023
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoIraq expects TotalEnergies to begin operations on a long-delayed $27 billion oil, gas and renewables project in the second half of 2023 after finalising side-contracts with a state oil company ...
Recycling Doesn’t Work—and the Plastics Industry Knew It
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 months agoHardly any plastics can be recycled. You’d be forgiven for not knowing that, given how much...
Pictures of the week: Gwyneth Paltrow in court, cherry blossoms and riots in France
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEach week the picture editors at The Independent sort through hundreds of thousands images sent into...