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Basra canal closed as Iraq’s water crisis resurfaces
Shafaq News
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2025-08-29T15:04:55+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Basra Basra residents voiced outrage on Friday after authorities shut down the al-Suwaib canal, a major water source recently restored by the local government. Resident Sadiq...
The dark side of Iraqi social media: How anonymity and “tahsheesh” fuel violence
Shafaq News
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Shafaq News Negative comments have become one of the most visible—and corrosive—features of Iraq’s digital sphere. What once appeared as casual jesting, known locally as tahsheesh (banter), has expanded into a culture of ridicule, obscenity, and...
Iraq’s Bahr al-Najaf faces severe drought threat
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T20:01:09+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Najaf The Bahr al-Najaf basin is witnessing a sharp decline in water levels, raising concerns it could dry up completely, local authorities said on Thursday. Bahr al-Najaf,...
Iraq Is Struggling With an Energy Crisis Despite Its Oil Wealth
Oil Price
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August 28, 2025
One of OPEC’s major oil producers, Iraq, has been tackling an ongoing energy crisis, which plunged the country into darkness in August. Despite being one of the world’s biggest oil powers, years of political turmoil, the mismanagement of public...
Iraq achieves peak growth in higher education institutions
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T14:27:06+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad More than 300 colleges and scientific departments have been established within just three years, Iraq’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Naeem...
Conservative Modernism: A Roadmap for Sustainable Peace in the Middle East
Fair Observer
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August 28, 2025
For centuries, the Middle East has stood at the crossroads of civilization and conflict. Despite the formal establishment of modern nation-states, the region has failed to achieve internal political stability or external peace. The situation in...
Abuja hosts regional workshop on protecting elections in information environment
Realnews Magazine
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August 28, 2025
Africa A regional workshop on protecting elections in the information environment opened on Wednesday, 27th August 2025, in Abuja, Nigeria. The meeting is organised by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance,...
International IDEA And ECONEC Evaluate Digital Environment’s Impact On Elections
News Ghana
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August 28, 2025
REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON PROTECTING ELECTIONS IN THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT OPENS IN ABUJA FROM 27 TO 28 AUGUST 2025 A regional workshop on protecting elections in the information environment opens on Wednesday, 27th August 2025, in Abuja, Nigeria....
Beyond Oil: Digital work is forging Iraq's new economic identity
Shafaq News
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Shafaq News Iraq’s labor market is undergoing a quiet transformation—driven not by government initiatives or corporate investments, but by the individual choices of women, students, and young professionals. Across Baghdad and other cities,...
U.S. Oil Powerhouse Chevron Is Back In Iraq, But Will It Be Different This Time?
Oil Price
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August 27, 2025
U.S. oil and gas supermajor Chevron signed an agreement in principle last week with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for the development of the huge Nasiriyah oil field, plus other oil producing fields and exploration sites. This is the latest in a recent line...
Iraq proposes to establish joint committee with Armenian businessmen to boost trade and economic relations
Finport
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ArmInfo. We suggest establishing a committee comprising Armenian and Iraqi entrepreneurs to oversee the sustainable development of trade and economic relations, as was stated by Minister of Agriculture of Iraq Abbas Jebur Al-Maleky at the 4th...
Iraqi buffalo herders wander in search of water
Gulf Today
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August 27, 2025
Like his father, Iraqi buffalo herder Watheq Abbas grazes his animals in Iraq’s southern wetlands, but with persistent drought shrinking marshland where they feed and decimating the herd, his millennia-old way of life is threatened. “There’s no...
20 Years Since Hurricane Katrina: How the Capitalists Left a City to Rot
The Communist
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August 29, 2025
In August and September 2005, New Orleans was reduced to barbaric conditions. Nearly 2,000 people died, and 1.5 million lost their homes. Was an unpredictable natural disaster or an “act of God” to blame? No, it was a result of the criminal...
The Lessons of Hurricane Katrina Were Obvious From the Moment It Struck
The Nation
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August 29, 2025
Environment / August 29, 2025 The hurricane told us all we needed to know about disasters in the age of environmental devastation. Only some wanted to listen. Ad Policy Firefighter Jerome Crenshaw during a break from recovery efforts after...
Iraqi PM emphasises Private Sector Support for Economic Reform
Iraq Business News
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August 26, 2025
By John Lee. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al-Sudani presided over the Tax Conference for Economic Development and Investment Promotion in Baghdad, stressing that supporting the private sector is central to Iraq's economic reform agenda. He...
Climate, housing activist launches bid for Congress in mid-Michigan
The Detroit News - Michigan
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A community organizer who co-founded the youth-led Sunrise Movement to press for climate action is launching a campaign for the U.S. House in one of Michigan's most competitive districts, aiming to take on first-term Republican Rep. Tom Barrett. A...
Iraqi court summons analyst Najm al-Qassab on fraud charges
Shafaq News
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2025-08-26T22:10:08+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad An Iraqi court on Tuesday issued a summons warrant against political analyst Najm al-Qassab on charges of misleading public opinion and defamation. A security source...
Meta And Google At Iraq's First Internet Governance Forum
MENAFN
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August 27, 2025
(MENAFN- Iraq Business News) Meta and Google Join Local Stakeholders at Iraq's First Internet Governance Forum Baghdad will host the country's first Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on 30-31 August, bringing together global and local voices to...
Iran–Iraq security pact: Foundation for a broader military alliance?
Strategic Culture
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August 27, 2025
The most crucial part of the agreement — preventing either country’s territory from being used against the other — forms the core of the pact, a seed from which a full-fledged military alliance could easily emerge. Join us on Telegram, Twitter,...
Iraq signals readiness to exchange 10 million tourists with Iran
Tehran Times
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August 26, 2025
TEHRAN – Iraq’s Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Fakak al-Badrani said on Tuesday that his country welcomes increasing tourist exchanges with Iran to 10 million visitors in a year. Al-Badrani made the remarks during a meeting in...