| Kuwait Energy-led consortium inks oil block exploration deal with Iraq |
(MENAFN) Kuwait Energy stated that it inked an oil block exploration and development agreement with the Iraqi government, reported Reuters. The deal gives the consortium, which includes the ...
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| Weather cuts short trip of U.S., Iraqi 'lawn chair' balloonists |
BEND, Oregon (Reuters) - Two men sitting in lawn chairs tied to 350 helium-filled balloons failed in their bid on Saturday to set a world record for the longest two-man cluster balloon flight when bad weather forced them down well short of their destination. A crowd estimated at more than 1,000 people watched as American Kent Couch and Fareed Lafta of Iraq lifted off on Saturday morning from the parking lot of Couch's Stop & Go Mini Mart in the Oregon town of Bend. They soared into clear skies with light winds, perched underneath balloons in the colors of the U.S. and Iraqi flags. ...
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| "Lawn chair" balloonist to set sail from Oregon, seeks record |
BEND, Oregon (Reuters) - A balloonist who once flew 235 miles in a lawn chair tied to a bouquet of helium-filled party balloons will fly again on Saturday, this time with a co-pilot, seeking to set a Guinness World Record for the longest two-man cluster balloon flight. Gas station owner Kent Couch, dubbed the "lawn chair balloonist," will set off from his Stop & Go station in Bend, Oregon, carried by 350 multi-colored balloons and guided only by the wind. With him will be with Iraqi national Fareed Lafta, with whom he is preparing to partner in a similar flight from Baghdad in October. ...
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| Panel calls for annual PTSD screening |
The Institute of Medicine recommended Friday that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan undergo annual screening for post-traumatic stress disorder and that federal agencies conduct more research to determine how well the various treatments for PTSD are working.
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| Artist's work rises from Baghdad's ashes |
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - As Baghdad burned, Iraqi artist Qasim Sabti headed for one of the places he loved the most - the Academy of Fine Arts - only to find thousands of its books and archives on fire. It was April 2003 and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, begun in March, had reached the capital. Sabti, who had seen the blaze from his balcony in central Baghdad, recounts the destruction of 6,000 books on art and how he tried to recover just a handful from the flames. "I tried to save a Russian landscape book. ...
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| Ex-Marine Wants To Re-Enlist Where Tattoos Are Welcome |
DEAR ABBY: My son is 24 and was honorably discharged as a corporal after a four-year enlistment in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was deployed twice to Iraq. Since his return he has been attending community college, but he lacks the focus and is bored. He has recently announced that he would like to return to the military.When he approached the Marine recruiter to re-enlist, he was told he's ineligible due to tattoos on his arms. After four years of honorable and devoted service, this rejection is insulting. ...
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| Senior Syria diplomat defects |
 Syria's ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf Fares, is the second prominent official to abandon Bashar Assad's government in less than a week.ISTANBUL, Turkey — The Syrian ambassador to Iraq has defected, denouncing President Bashar Assad in a TV statement Wednesday and becoming the most senior diplomat to abandon the regime during a bloody 16-month uprising.
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| Rights groups and activists slam Iraq Internet law |
 An Iraqi draft law that would jail web users for life for a variety of ill-defined crimes has been condemned by rights groups and activists who have slammed its vague language and hefty penalties.
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| Briton charged with fraud over faulty bomb detectors |
A British businessman who has sold bomb-detecting equipment to at least 20 countries, including Iraq, will appear in a London court on Thursday to face fraud charges, BBC News reported.
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| Syria Says Defecting Ambassador Is Fired |
Syrian authorities said on Thursday that their ambassador to Iraq had been fired, news reports said, the first official confirmation that the diplomat had defected.
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| "Savages" is a flashy but flimsy drug war story |
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - It's not that I couldn't believe a ménage-à -trois between a botanist-entrepreneur-philanthropist, a bubble-headed Southern California princess, and a haunted and hard-bitten veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I just don't believe the one that's at the center of Oliver Stone's latest, "Savages. ...
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| 6 killed, 20 wounded in Iraq bomb blast, police say |
A man wearing an explosive vest blew himself up Thursday in a shop in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least five others along with him, police said.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=eFLU4Wb-FnI:6AFGGi8dNiU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=eFLU4Wb-FnI:6AFGGi8dNiU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=eFLU4Wb-FnI:6AFGGi8dNiU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?i=eFLU4Wb-FnI:6AFGGi8dNiU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=eFLU4Wb-FnI:6AFGGi8dNiU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs" borde
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| DNO to increase crude output in Iraq |
(MENAFN) DNO International confirmed an oil discovery at Tawke oilfield north of Iraq, which will boost its overall crude output, adding that it has resumed drilling operations in Yemen, Reuters ...
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| Many killed in fresh round of Iraq attacks |
(MENAFN - Arab News) A car bomb blamed on Al-Qaeda at a market in central Iraq killed eight people yesterday and three others were murdered in Baghdad. The violence came a day after a series of ...
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| Reporter behind the lines in Syria sees no end to war |
 As International Editor at NBC News' British partner ITV News, Bill Neely has covered the Libyan and Egyptian revolutions, the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, as well as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He spoke to msnbc.com's F. Brinley Bruton from Syria where he was witnesssing what he called "the battle for Damascus."
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| Series of deadly attacks hit Iraq |
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| Series of deadly attacks hit Iraq |
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| Blasts rock Iraq; scores die |
(MENAFN - Arab News) Bombs killed at least 44 people at markets in Iraq yesterday, and authorities said they bore the hallmarks of sectarian attacks on Shiites by Al-Qaeda militants. A bomb in a ...
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| Syria: Is Iraq the first country to defect? |
(MENAFN - Arab News) The latest statement issued by Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari from Cairo about the Assad regime, in which he described it as a totalitarian regime, means that Iraq has ...
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| Blast at Iraq vegetable market kills 30 |
A series of bomb blasts killed at least 36 people across Iraq on Tuesday, including 30 in an explosion at a vegetable market in Diwaniya, police officials said.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=imgkSze9uIs:yr-Oa86VoIc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=imgkSze9uIs:yr-Oa86VoIc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=imgkSze9uIs:yr-Oa86VoIc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?i=imgkSze9uIs:yr-Oa86VoIc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=imgkSze9uIs:yr-Oa86VoIc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_
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Syrian rebels were still in control of the main Abu Kamal border post on the Euphrates River highway, one of the major trade routes across the Middle East, a senior Iraqi interior ministry official said on Friday.