ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday Turkey wanted Iranian gas to be transported to Europe via the planned Nabucco pipeline "when conditions allow," despite U.S. opposition. European Union governments and Turkey were to sign transit agreements in Ankara later on Monday for the EU and U.S.-backed Nabucco pipeline, which aims to reduce Europe's energy dependence on Russia by transporting gas from the Caspian and Middle East through the planned pipeline from... Read Full Story
The withdrawal of US forces from Iraqi cities won't affect security in the country, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki assured US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi in Baghdad on Sunday. "We don't need big numbers of (US) military forces inside the cities after we get control of them," Maliki said in a statement after meeting with Pelosi, who arrived in the Iraqi capital unannounced earlier in the day. "The responsible withdrawal (of US troops) will not affect the security situation... Read Full Story
Former Iraqi trade minister Abdel Falah al-Sudani was arrested on Saturday after his plane was dramatically ordered back to Bagdhad as he tried to flee the country in the wake of a graft scandal. Sudani was on board a flight to Dubai, which authorities turned back to the capital so that he could be arrested, said Sabah al-Saedi, head of parliament's corruption and integrity commission. "The minister was trying to escape from justice and was headed to the United Arab Emirates (UAE)," said... Read Full Story
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Media watchdogs have urged Iraq's government to end harassment and intimidation of journalists and push for the release of a freelance photographer working for Reuters, who is being held by the U.S. military. In an open letter to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory said Iraqi media had made significant strides since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 but now faced tough challenges. "Along with that... Read Full Story
A baby miraculously survived a Baghdad car bombing cradled in his mother's lap as she was burned alive in a blast that claimed the lives of eight people on Tuesday, witnesses said. The baby boy's father was seriously wounded in the attack not far from a Shiite Muslim shrine in the Kadhimiyah neighbourhood of northern Baghdad, police and witnesses said. Tuesday's attack came shortly before US President Barack Obama arrived in the Iraqi capital on a surprise visit. It also came hard on the... Read Full Story
A baby miraculously survived a Baghdad car bombing cradled in his mother's lap as she was burned alive in a blast that claimed the lives of eight people on Tuesday, witnesses said. The baby boy's father was also seriously wounded in the attack not far from a holy Shiite shrine in the Kadhimiyah neighbourhood of northern Baghdad, police and witnesses said. Tuesday's attack came shortly before US President Barack Obama arrived in the Iraqi capital on a surprise visit. It also came hard on the... Read Full Story
Iraqi Trade Minister Abdel Falah al-Sudani has resigned amid allegations of corruption and embezzlement linked to the nation's food assistance programme, the prime minister's office said on Monday. "The prime minister has agreed to accept the resignation of Abdel Falah al-Sudani, the minister of trade," it said in a statement. Sudani, a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shiite Dawa faction, had already been questioned by parliament over claims relating to imports for Iraq's food... Read Full Story
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has launched a campaign to arrest almost 1,000 officials for corruption, the government said on Wednesday, after the trade minister resigned amid claims family members made millions in kickbacks from sugar purchases. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said during a visit to the rudderless Trade Ministry his office would take control of the ministry's functions and a committee would take over Iraq's massive grains and foodstuffs purchasing program. "We will not keep silent... Read Full Story
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Police on Saturday detained Iraq's former trade minister in connection with graft allegations involving food rations, ordering a plane in which he was flying to Dubai to turn back, witnesses and officials said. An Iraqi judge issued an arrest warrant for former Trade Minister Abdul Falah al-Sudany on Saturday, but he had already boarded a plane to Dubai, parliament's anti-graft watchdog said. A passenger traveling on the same plane as Sudany said it was turned around... Read Full Story
Iraq's ex-trade minister Abdel Falah al-Sudani has been quizzed on graft allegations for two days but pressure is growing for him to be released on bail, an anti-corruption official told AFP on Tuesday. Sudani, who resigned last week after being accused of corruption linked to Iraq's food assistance programme, was arrested on Saturday after his plane was dramatically ordered back to the Iraqi capital as he tried to flee the country. "He has been interrogated for a second day by an anti... Read Full Story
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