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Iraq shrugs off calls to reconsider death penalty
Baghdad :: Iraq | 8 months ago
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Iraq has executed nearly 100 people so far this year, a big increase over previous years that has intensified concern about whether defendants are receiving fair trials in a country where the United States has spent billions of dollars trying to
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Iran arrests daughter of ex-president Rafsanjani
Tehrān :: Iran | 8 months ago
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The Fars news agency reported that she had been taken to Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Hashemi was among thousands arrested for taking part in protests that erupted after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was given a second term in a 2009 election amid
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Outside View: Iraq spiraling toward civil war
Baghdad :: Iraq | 8 months ago
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Iraq spiraling toward civil war A handout picture, made available by the official website of the Iranian Supreme Leader's office on April 23, 2012, shows Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei (R) meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L)
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Elements from al-Iraqiya have abandoned me – Al-Hashemi
Baghdad :: Iraq | 8 months ago
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The Vice President stressed his innocence and dubbed the judiciarys ruling as unjust and invalid. He said this is an unjust ruling because the judiciary prevented me from exercising my civil rights which are granted by the law and constitution,
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Ex-minister slams Iraq PM for tolerating graft
Baghdad :: Iraq | 8 months ago
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The first minister to quit Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki's unity government criticised the prime minister for turning a blind eye to worsening corruption among his loyalists, in an interview with AFP. Former communications minister Mohammed Tawfiq
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Iraq, Kurds reach preliminary oil deal, officials say
Baghdad :: Iraq | 8 months ago
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The Iraqi government and the Kurdistan region struck a preliminary deal on Thursday on a months-long oil dispute that will see the autonomous region export 200,000 barrels of oil per day, officials said. Autonomous Kurdistan halted its oil exports
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U.S. monitoring Hashemi case
Baghdad :: Iraq | 8 months ago
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The U.S. government said it encouraged Baghdad to settle issues with Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi in a way that strengthened the country's stability. An Iraqi court last weekend sentenced Hashemi in absentia to death on charges he was
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Turkey 'will not return Iraq VP'
Ankara :: Turkey | 8 months ago
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Turkey will not send Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi back to Iraq, where he has been sentenced to death in absentia, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has said. Hashemi, who has been in Turkey since April, was found guilty of running death squads
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Amnesty International calls for probe into Iraq attacks
Baghdad :: Iraq | 8 months ago
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Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Iraq to investigate a bloody wave of attacks, while condemning a death sentence handed to fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi. More than 80 people were killed and at least 400 wounded in the series of
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Turkey refuses to extradite fugitive Iraqi vice president
Ankara :: Turkey | 8 months ago
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Turkey on Tuesday said it won't extradite Iraq's fugitive vice president Tareq al-Hashemi, who has been convicted of murder and sentenced to death in absentia by an Iraqi court. "We will host Hashemi in our country as long as he wants to remain in
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