Iraq News
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Updated 16 minutes ago
On Feb. 24, the U.S., European nations, members of the Arab League and other sympathetic countries making up the newly established “Friends of Syria” group will gather in Tunisia for an emergency meeting on how to stem the bloodshed in Syria. Their deliberations are almost certain to involve calls for more crippling sanctions to bring about regime change and debates over providing military support to the fractured opposition groups inside the country.
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Updated 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
The “Friends of Syria” gather tomorrow in Tunisia to seek ways to oust President Bashar al- Assad, who has dug in with increasing violence against civilian opponents after two failed UN Security Council measures.
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Officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency, sent to Iran to defuse tensions over the country’s nuclear program, were denied access to a military base and said the talks “couldn’t finalize a way forward.”
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Dragon Oil Plc said tightening international sanctions against Iran may make it “more difficult” for the Dubai-based explorer to make payments for a rig operating in the Caspian Sea.
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Iraq invited companies to submit bids to build a 500-megawatt electricity plant fuelled by natural gas in the eastern province of Maysan, Mussab Serri, an electricity ministry spokesman, said today in an interview.
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Iran pledged to press on with its efforts to develop atomic energy as the United Nations nuclear watchdog started a second day of meetings in Tehran to clarify aspects of the country’s activities.
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Canada’s success in parlaying strong economic fundamentals into a rush of foreign investment has come at a cost: weakened manufacturing competitiveness that’s exacerbating a regional divide between the resource-rich west and the factory-heavy east.
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For two neighbors who don’t trust each other and for centuries were engaged in fierce strategic and religious competition, it is remarkable that Sunni Turkey and Shiite Iran haven’t gone to war over their border since 1639. As Turkish leaders walk a diplomatic tightrope over U.S.-led efforts to pressure Iran into abandoning a suspected nuclear-weapons program, their overriding priority is to keep it that way.
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Opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule stepped up their deadly attacks against government officials as the violence of the past 11 months pushes the country toward civil war.
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United Nations investigators begin two days of meetings in Iran today, offering Tehran’s government a chance to stem growing speculation the country’s nuclear program will spark a military conflict.
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