News Summary
October 12, 2008 - 08:06:00
BAGHDAD/ Aswat al-Iraq: Following is a summary of news reports posted until 10:00 p.m. Baghdad local time Sunday: *Politics
BAGHDAD - Defense Minister Abdelqader al-Ubaidy discussed with the Czech ambassador in Baghdad, Peter Voznica, the possibility of upgrading the Iraqi army by providing it with advanced equipment.
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi Premier Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday said that his government will take immediate measures to solve problems that Christians face in Mosul city, referring that he will order to provide protection to them, but without specifying when. BAGHDAD - Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani arrived in Baghdad on Sunday leading a Kurdish delegation for talks over a host of outstanding issues between the autonomous region and the central government, according to the region’s presidential cabinet chief.
ARBIL - Iraq’s president advisor on Sunday said his religious minority community rejected the current version of provincial elections law, calling for making their representation according to population census. BAGHDAD - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and a U.S. delegation under Ambassador Ryan Crocker discussed the political scene and challenges posing before the country’s political process, according to a presidential statement on Sunday. *Security BASRA - Policemen arrested six men wanted on criminal and “terrorist” charges and seized medium arms and rifles in different areas of Basra on Sunday, the province’s police media office said.
BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces have received the security responsibilities of the intersections of al-Salihiya and Kadhimiya in a step to gain control over the entire capital Baghdad, a police chief in the Ministry of Interior said on Sunday. BAGHDAD - Iraq’s senior interior official on Sunday said his ministry would keep up the information of the government’s commission of inquiry over killing of an MP from a bloc loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr until hunting the killers down. SALAH AL-DIN - An improvised explosive device went off near an Iraqi army vehicle south of the city of Touz Khormato on Sunday, leaving an officer in the rank of major wounded, a security source in Salah al-Din province said.
BAGHDAD - Two Sahwa (Awakening) tribal fighters were killed in an armed attack by unknown gunmen, targeting a Sahwa checkpoint in al-Dora neighborhood, southern Baghdad, a source from the Iraqi police said on Sunday. BAGHDAD - Iraqi army on Sunday said its forces arrested five wanted individuals in a search operation conducted in Baghdad. WASSIT - The al-Zahraa Hospital morgue on Sunday received two decomposed bodies salvaged from a canal in the outskirts of al-Suwayra city, northern Wassit, a morgue source said. NINEWA - About five civilians were killed and 12 other wounded by a car bomb in Ninewa, a security source said. BAGHDAD - Senior interior official said over 20 thousands policemen were sacked to improve the performance of security forces. BAGHDAD - a police source on Sunday said two Iraqi army soldiers were killed by an unknown sniper in Baghdad. NINEWA - Two security guards killed by a car bomb, the second of its type, in Mosul on Sunday, a police source said. *Economy ARBIL - Four service projects were finalized in the district of Soran, Arbil province, in an attempt to address the water scarcity problem, the Soran mayor said on Sunday. BAGHDAD - Iraq’s Stock Exchange (ISX) index was down by 2.031 percent to settle at 56.72 points at the closing of Sunday’s session, the third this month. ARBIL - A German delegation is scheduled to pay a four-day visit to the northern Iraq city of Arbil to discuss means to boost trade between the two sides, according to the first vice president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region’s chambers of commerce on Sunday. BAGHDAD - Iraq’s oil ministry on Sunday it will hold a conference in London to provide foreign oil and gas companies with details of the contracts under which it hopes the companies will help boost the country’s oil output . AM(F)
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