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A/H1N1 virus." In the eastern province of Wasit, the provincial authorities decided a five-day extension for the already existing week-long closure of schools in the city of Hay, some 50 km south of the provincial capital of Kut, after medical authorities...
Tags: Iraqi Ministry of Health, h1n1 flu
A total of 252 Iraqis were killed in violence in March, almost the same casualty figures as in February when the toll was 258, Iraq authorities said on Wednesday. Statistics compiled by the defence, interior and health ministries showed that 185 civilians,...
Iraq hopes to turn around years of sluggish oil production and boost output by over 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) by the end of next year, its oil minister said. Iraq is pursuing long-term contracts to develop major oil and gas fields, but in the meantime...
Tags: Iraqi Ministry of Health, Iraqi Health Ministry, death toll, oil minister, oil prices, toll rises, falling oil, Diyala
The victims include seven children and two women. Reported in Al-Jazeera , Thursday, September 11, 2008 Babel, a central Iraqi province, is on alert after Iraqi authorities declared it a disaster zone marking the country’s latest cholera outbreak. At...
Tags: cholera, Iraqi Ministry of Health, Baghdad
Residents of Iraq’s second-largest city of Basra are breathing a sigh of relief after Shia radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his militia to end the clashes with government forces which erupted on 25 March. “We witnessed wars in the past: the