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Families Can Sue Govt Over Iraq Troop Deaths
Families of British soldiers killed fighting in Iraq can bring damages claims against the Government, the Supreme Court has ruled. Relatives want to sue for negligence and to make claims under human rights legislation. Supreme Court justices announced today that they can do both. Families started legal action as a result of the deaths of a number of British soldiers following the American-led ...
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Gulf Keystone announce the commencement of the Companys drilling campaign at the Shaikan field
Shaikan-7, the first deep exploration well on the Shaikan block, is targeting the mid to lower Triassic and, potentially, Permian horizons, spudded late on Sunday 16 June 2013. Shaikan-7 is being drilled to the lower Triassic to evaluate the potential for significant quantities of light oil and identify commerciality of the deeper Triassic ...
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World Cup 2014 Josh Kennedy coming to terms with scoring match-winning goal against Iraq
Sydney 2000 Josh Kennedy says the impact of his match-winning goal in the World Cup qualifier against Iraq is only just "starting to sink in".Kennedy confirmed Australia's passage to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil with his 83rd-minute header at the Olympic stadium on Tuesday night.The lanky striker was still coming to terms with being the toast of the nation as he joined his ...
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Syria peace talks delayed after Putin unyielding
Syrian peace talks will be delayed after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to boycott talks that assume President Bashar Assad will resign, officials said. The international peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland, proposed by Washington and Moscow six weeks ago to be held as soon as May is now likely to be delayed until September, a Western official told several news organizations after ...
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Iraq claims legal ruling expected
Relatives want the right to sue for negligence and to make claims under human rights legislation.The Supreme Court - the highest court in the UK - analysed arguments from lawyers representing relatives and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) at a hearing in London in February.Judges in the Court of Appeal and the High Court have already considered the issues.In October, appeal judges said relatives ...
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Total acquires 80 stake in Kurdistan block
France's oil major Total has acquired an 80% stake in an exploration block in Iraq's Kurdistan, in a move that reinforces the company's position in the semi-autonomous region where crude reserves are plentiful, Reuters has reported. According to the deal, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) will own the remaining 20%. "This participation in an operated exploration block ...
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Dozens die in blast at Iraqi mosque
BAGHDAD -- Two suicide bombers targeted a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, one blowing himself up at a nearby checkpoint while the other slipped inside during prayers. The blasts killed 34 people, Iraqi officials ...
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10 killed 53 wounded in Iraqs violence
BAGHDAD, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Ten people were killed and 53 wounded in separate shootings and bombings in central and northern Iraq on Thursday, the police said. Up to five people, including two policemen, were killed and 30 wounded when two roadside bombs detonated near a police patrol in Nahrawan area, in the southeastern part of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source told ...
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Supreme Court ruling on Iraq damages
Supreme Court judges will rule later on whether relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq can sue the government for damages under the Human Rights Act. The case was brought by relatives of three men killed by roadside bombs while in Snatch Land Rovers in Iraq. Last year, the Court of Appeal accepted government argument that battlefields were beyond the reach ...
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U.N. recommends bringing Iraq closer to ending 1990s sanctions
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday recommended bringing Iraq one step closer to ending all U.N. sanctions imposed on Baghdad more than two decades ago after former leader Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait In 1990. Despite the toppling of Saddam in 2003 after a U.S.-led invasion, the United Nations has not fully lifted the sanctions. U.S.-led troops drove Iraq ...
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Australia v Iraq what we learned from the World Cup qualifier
For 48 hours before the game, a major Sydney road was rechristened as the Tim Cahill Expressway. This was a man who had scored his country's first ever World Cup goal and at times had dragged the team through qualification. For years, he has been the source of goals when all others had run dry. Yet with 13 minutes remaining ...
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Journalist Michael Hastings Killed in Car Crash
"We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone. Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians. He wrote stories that would otherwise have gone unwritten, and without him there are great stories that will go untold. Michael ...
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Iraqi Suicide Bombers Kill Shiite Worshippers
Two suicide bombers killed 29 worshippers in a Shiite mosque in Baghdad Tuesday. At least 55 others were wounded. Officials say the first bomber blew himself up at a nearby checkpoint to serve as a distraction for authorities, while the other slipped past the concrete blast walls and entered the mosque during prayers. University student, Ali Faleh, said he was nearby at a local shop when he ...
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Iraqi Kurdistan gives Turkish company six oil exploration blocks
ISTANBUL, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:48pm EDT ISTANBUL, June 18 (Reuters) - Local authorities have given an unnamed Turkish company licenses to explore for oil in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to a report, a move that could anger the central government in Baghdad already worried about the region's growing independence. The report, co-published by The Oil & Gas Year and the autonomous ...
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Learning a Lesson from Libya Iraq Reconciliation Not Revenge
Even as Syria’s nightmare continues, policy makers should consider the country’s future once hostilities end. Those planning for Syria’s "day after" should learn a lesson from the past and avoid an approach just adopted in Libya, and before that in Iraq, that will widen divisions rather than heal the wounds. Libya’s parliament recently voted to bar many ...
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Ed Miliband is standing firm on Syria but is he caught in a trap
On a November night in 1987, I walked through the blown-up heart of Enniskillen a few hours after IRA bombers murdered 11 people who had gathered on Remembrance Day to mourn the dead of another war. I was a young journalist on my first major assignment, and I had never seen such carnage. Today, as the G8 circus leaves Fermanagh, Enniskillen has once again become a shrine to violence. Even ...
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Iraqi suicide bombers hit Baghdad mosque kill 34
Umm Satta grieves for her slain college student son, Sattar Jabbar, near Habib al-Asadi Shiite mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up inside and near the Shiite mosque, Iraqi officials said. Most of the casualties were among students from a nearby Imam al-Sadiq University for Islamic Studies. Police officials said the university's Shiite ...
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Ron Paul ‘Obama’s Syria policy looks a lot like Bush’s Iraq policy’
War Did the White House's remarks about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons sound familiar? Former congressman Ron Paul says the build up to a likely strike on Syria reminds him of the days before the invasion of Iraq. Paul, the longtime Republican lawmaker from Texas who retired last year following an unsuccessful attempt to gain the GOP nomination for the ...
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Iraq excludes Kurds from ambitious 2014 oil output target
Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:38pm EDT * Target for 4.5 mln bpd output relies on southern oilfields * Kurdistan says excluded from national energy strategy * High-level committee formed to settle Baghdad-Kurd oil row By Peg Mackey LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Iraq aims to ramp up oil production by nearly 45 percent by the end of next year - without any input from its autonomous Kurdistan region - which ...
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Twin Suicide Attacks Kill 29 in Iraq
Tuesday's coordinated blasts struck after midday prayers in the Iraqi capital's northern al-Qahira district. The first bomber detonated his charge at a checkpoint near the mosque and minutes later a second person blew himself up inside the building. Iraq has seen a surge in violence that officials blame on Sunni Islamist insurgents and al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq. ...
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Chevron signs 3rd Kurdistan oil deal after being banned by Iraq
Kurdistan’s Qara Dagh oil field. The Kurdish Regional Government has signed an oil exploration contract with the U.S. firm Chevron. Under the accord, Chevron would explore the Qara Dagh field, which encompasses 860 kilometers. ';Chevron will acquire an interest in and operatorship of the Qara Dagh block production sharing contract from the Kurdistan regional government,'; ...
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Total extends reach in Kurdish Iraq
Iraq by becoming the operator of a concession in the autonomous area. The company bought an 80 per cent stake in the Baranan block, with the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) holding the remainder, as the presence of oil majors into the Kurdish region continues to grow in spite of Baghdad's objections. Total has held a 35 per cent stake in the Harir and Safen blocks in the region since ...
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Suicide bombers targeting Shias kill dozens in Baghdad
Iraqis walk past damaged buildings and burnt out vehicles following a car bomb that exploded the previous day in the commercial centre of the capital Baghdad on May 28, 2013. Another suicide bombing killed 31 in Baghdad on June 18. (Sabah Arar/AFP/Getty Images) At ...
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Infertile Crescent Waters run dry in Iraqi marshes
BASRA, Iraq -- Jassim al-Asadi was born 56 years ago in a boat at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Back then, vast wetlands covered one-fifth of Iraq, sustaining a unique culture of marsh-dwelling Arabs that fish the waters and live among the reeds. Al-Asadi remembers ferrying himself on his own boat every day to school -- a reed platform in the middle of the marshes -- during ...
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Iraq Bombing At Least 24 People Killed
At least 24 people have been killed in a suicide bombing by a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad. And 52 others were injured in the blast - the latest in a coordinated string of attacks on the country. The first bomber detonated his explosives at a security checkpoint near the mosque in the middle-class, Shi'ite-majority area of the northern Qahira neighbourhood in an apparent attempt to ...
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