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Iraq in final stages of talks on US$27-billion TotalEnergies deal, oil minister says
A logo of TotalEnergies is seen at an electric vehicle fuelling station in the La Defense business district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier
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20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope
A family heads to the al-Kadhimayn shrine in Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. For Iraqis, the war and U.S. occupation which started two decades ago were traumatic – an estimated 300,000 Iraqis were killed between 2003 and 2019, according to an estimate by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, in addition to some 4,000 Americans. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Grappling with the effects of 2003 Iraq invasion 20 years later
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Several killed in mysterious northern Iraq helicopter crash
A member of the Iraqi security forces stands guard next to a national flag as pilgrims march from the centre of Baghdad towards the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kadhim, the seventh of 12 revered imams in Shiite Islam who died in 799 AD, during an annual religious commemoration on February 16, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)
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UN chief praises moves toward stability in rare Iraq visit
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to reporters during a news conference, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Oil settles up for third day as interest rate concerns ease
An array of pumpjacks operate Thursday, July 7, 2022, in Odessa, Texas. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP)
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Iraqis protest gender violence after YouTube star killed
Iraqi women's rights activists lift placards during a rally near the Supreme Judicial Council in Baghdad on February 5, 2023, to protest the killing of Iraqi youtuber Tiba al-Ali by her father in Diwaniyah. - Al-Ali's death on January 31, has sparked outrage in Iraq, where so-called "honour killings" continue to take place in the conservative country. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Stampede outside stadium in southern Iraq kills at least two people, injures dozens
Iraqi soccer fans try to enter the Basra International Stadium in Basra, Iraq, Thursday, Jan 19, 2023. A stampede outside the stadium has killed and injured a number of people. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
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Germany in talks with Iraq over possible gas imports, chancellor says
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gestures at a news conference with the Iraqi prime minister at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, Germany January 13, 2023. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi
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Drone shot down over Iraq’s Ain al-Asad air base
FILE - This Dec. 29, 2019, aerial file photo taken from a helicopter shows Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq. At least 10 rockets targeted a military base in western Iraq that hosts U.S.-led coalition troops on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, the coalition and the Iraqi military said. It was not immediately known if there were any casualties. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)
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Islamic State group says its leader has been killed, names successor
FILE - A fighter from the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria, July 17, 2017. The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in a battle recently, the group’s spokesman said in audio released Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, without giving further details. No one claimed responsibility for the killing. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
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Saudi and Iraqi energy ministers meet, review oil markets
FILE PHOTO: Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud speaks at the Future Investment Initiative conference, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 25, 2022. REUTERS/ Ahmed Yosri/File Photo
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Iran bolsters border security to prevent ‘infiltration’
FILE PHOTO: A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 19, 2022. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo
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Iranian forces unleash heavy fire on protesters, killing at least five, activists say
In this image from video provided by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, a protester reacts after a water container was hit by a bullet during a protest in Javanroud, a Kurdish town in western Iran, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. (Hengaw Organization for Human Rights via AP)
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Turkey strikes in Syria, Iraq a week after Istanbul bombing
FILE - Turkish military convoy drives through the village of Urum al-Jawz, in Idlib province, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria called on residents on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022 to unite against any possible attack by Turkey warning that such an offensive will lead to long war. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)
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Turkey launches airstrikes over northern Syria
FILE - Turkish military convoy drives through the village of Urum al-Jawz, in Idlib province, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria called on residents on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022 to unite against any possible attack by Turkey warning that such an offensive will lead to long war. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)
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Military investigating after Canadian soldier dies in Iraq
Capt. Eric Cheung is shown in this handout image provided by the Canadian Armed Forces. The Canadian Armed Forces says it is investigating the death of a Winnipeg-based soldier who was serving in Iraq. Cheung, 38, died Saturday under what the military is calling "non-operational related circumstances," though the exact details are now under investigation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-DND-17 Wing Operations Support Squadron Imaging **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Kurdish exiles back Iran protests but deny organizing them
Protesters gather in Sulaimaniyah on Sept. 28, 2022, protest the killing of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish woman after she was arrested in Tehran by morality police for wearing her headscarf improperly. Iran has accused Kurdish opposition groups in exile of orchestrating the wave of protests across the country over the past two weeks. But Kurdish activists say the government is just trying to scapegoat them to distract from the domestic anger fueling the unrest. (AP Photo/Hawre Khalid, Metrography)
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Iraqis heed cleric’s plea to leave streets after clashes
Fighters from the Saraya Salam (Peace Brigades) loyal to influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr deploy in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. Al-Sadr has called on his supporters to withdraw from the capital's government quarter. His supporters have traded heavy fire with security forces there in a serious escalation of a months-long political crisis gripping the nation. (AP Photo/Murtadha Ridha)
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Fifteen people dead after clashes erupt following Iraqi Shiite cleric’s resignation
Supporters of Iraqi populist leader Moqtada al-Sadr protest at the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq August 29, 2022. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
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Explosive detonates in Baghdad, targets Australian diplomats
Young supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr raise up his portraits during their vigil outside parliament headquarters in the capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone on August 26, 2022 as they continue to protest against the nomination of a rival Shiite faction for government leadership. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iraq threatens new legal action against Kurdistan crude buyers
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 31, 2009, a worker is seen at an oil refinery near the village of Taq Taq, in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan. - Iraq's oil wealth is rekindling tensions between federal authorities and the autonomous Kurdish region, in a row that could compromise the lifeline industry and keep investors away, analysts say. (Photo by Safin HAMED / AFP) (Photo by SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iraq’s finance minister resigns in protest of political crisis, officials say
FILE - Ali Allawi, then Iraq's finance minister, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 15, 2020. Allawi resigned Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, two government officials said, over the country's worst political crisis in years involving an influential Shiite cleric and his Iran-aligned rivals. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said Allawi resigned during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday to protest the political conditions. They said Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar will become acting finance minister. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
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Bill Graham, former Liberal cabinet minister, has died
Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham speaks at a Canadian Club luncheon in Vancouver Tuesday April 15, 2003. Graham told his audience that he assured U.S. Secreatary of State Colin Powell that Canada was looking forward to working together on the reconstruction of Iraq. (CP PHOTO/Chuck Stoody)
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Threat of counter protests stirs panic in Iraq over fears of escalating tensions
Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr, take part in a mourning ritual amid the Shiite Ashura commemoration period as they occupy Iraq's parliament in the capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone while protesting a rival political bloc's nomination for prime minister, on August 1, 2022. (Photo by Ahmad AL-RUBAYE / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iraqi protests set for for long sit-in at parliament
Supporters of Iraqi populist leader Moqtada al-Sadr gather during a sit-in at the parliament building, amid political crises in Baghdad, Iraq July 31, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid Al-Mousily
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Rockets hit Khor Mor gas field in Iraq, no damage reported
(FILES) This file photo taken on October 17, 2017 shows excess flammable gasses burning from gas flares at the Havana oil field, west of the multi-ethnic northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. - A Katyusha rocket fell near the Khor Mor gas complex in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on June 22, 2022 without damaging the facility or causing any casualties. The rocket targeted the complex which belongs to UAE energy company Dana Gas and is located in the Chamchamal district, counter-terrorist services in Sulaimaniyah province said in a statement. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iraq submits complaint to UN against Turkey after attack
FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
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Brent stable as EU tweaks sanctions to allow oil shipments to third countries
FILE - In this April 24, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks work in a field in the Permian Basin near Lovington, N.M. Top officials with the largest Native American tribe in the United States are renewing a request for congressional leaders to hold a field hearing before deciding on federal legislation aimed at limiting oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The Navajo Nation has struggled for years with high poverty rates and joblessness, and the tribe’s legislative leaders say individual Navajo allottees stand to lose an important source of income if a 10-mile buffer is created around the park. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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Turkey rejects accusations its military carried out deadly artillery strikes in northern Iraq
An ambulance transports a coffin of an Iraqi who was killed in what Iraqi officials claim was a Turkish attack on a mountain resort in Iraq's northern province of Dohuk, outside a hospital, in Dohuk, Iraq, July 21, 2022. REUTERS/Ari Jalal
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Turkish artillery strikes kill at least eight tourists in northern Iraq
People gather outside a hospital following Turkish shelling in the city of Zakho in the north of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on July 20, 2022. - Eight civilians including two children were killed and 23 wounded in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region, when artillery shells hit a park in an attack local officials blamed on Turkey. (Photo by Ismael ADNAN / AFP) (Photo by ISMAEL ADNAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iraq bids to control Kurdistan oil revenue with contract switch
FILE PHOTO: An oilfield is seen in the Dibis area on the outskirts of Kirkuk, Iraq October 17, 2017. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani/File Photo
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Sandstorm suspends flights, many Iraqis struggle to breathe
People walk through a sand storm in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 5, 2022. Hundreds of Iraqis with respiratory problems went to hospitals with flights suspended on Thursday as Iraqis awoke to a fifth sand storm to engulf the country within a month. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)
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Turkey launches new ground, air offensive in northern Iraq
FILE - Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar arrives for a meeting of the North Atlantic Council with Georgia and Ukraine at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. Turkey has launched a new ground and air cross-border offensive against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, Turkey's Defense Minister announced early Monday, April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)