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Iraq eyes end to refined product imports after refinery upgrades
Hellenic Shipping News
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August 28, 2025
Iraq is poised to stop importing refined products by early next year after hiking its refining capacity to 1.3 million b/d, according to the country’s prime minister and a senior oil official. In comments to state news agency INA on Aug. 25, prime...
Iraq Unveils Migration Plan To Promote Safe Pathways For Iraqis Returning Home
RTTNews
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August 28, 2025
Iraq has taken a historic step with the launch of its first ever national migration plan, designed to promote safe, orderly and regular pathways for Iraqis returning home and around 370,000 migrants living and working inside the country. Unveiled...
Pakistan embarks on blue economy growth with first international ferry service
The Financial Daily International
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August 29, 2025
Initiative led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Maritime Minister Junaid Anwar Chaudhry grants licence to UK-based Sea Keeper, opening new sea routes for pilgrims, trade, and regional connectivity. The recent approval of Pakistan’s first...
The Economic Impact of Violence 2021
Vision of Humanity
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August 29, 2025
The data for internal security spending is obtained from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) government finance statistics database. Expenditure on private security is the fourth largest category in the model and comprises 5.6 per cent of the...
Dragon Oil, Iraq’s Al-Amal Group boost oil and gas cooperation
Zawya
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DUBAI - Dragon Oil - a wholly owned subsidiary of Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC), which is fully owned by the Government of Dubai - signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sohol Al-Salam Oil Services Co. (SAS Oil), a member of Iraq’s...
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 seeks to become regional telecom companies’ hub
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T15:17:32+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq is aiming to solidify its strategic position to become an attractive hub for regional and international companies, the Minister of Communications, Hayam...
Iraq expects gasoline self-sufficiency in 2025
Shafaq News
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August 28, 2025
2025-08-28T14:31:32+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq is on track to achieve self-sufficiency in gasoline production this year with the launch of two new refinery projects in Basra and Kirkuk, Deputy Prime Minister...
Iraq imports +$600M Jordanian goods in H1 2025
Shafaq News
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August 28, 2025
2025-08-28T15:01:31+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq ranked the second-largest Arab importer of Jordanian products in the first half of 2025, with imports valued at 431M Jordanian dinars ($607M). A report from...
Iraq pushes for closure of Syria's Al Hol displacement camp with New York meeting
The National News
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Iraq has invited dozens of nations to a conference in New York in September aimed at dismantling Syria's Al Hol camp for people displaced by the fight against ISIS, which lies near the border between the two countries. Baghdad views the camp as a...
IDC Completes Two Oil Wells in East Baghdad and Qayara
Iraq Business News
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August 29, 2025
By John Lee. The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has completed drilling two oil wells: IDC's Director General, Hassan Mohammed Hassan, highlighted that these achievements reflect the Ministry of Oil's strategy to strengthen national capacity in...
Iraq signs marine cable deal with Bahrain’s Batelco
Zawya
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Iraq’s Minister of Communications Hiyam Al-Yasiri has signed a contract to land a new submarine cable in the Southern Al-Faw Peninsula with a Bahraini company. "Today, we signed the contract to land Iraq's sixth submarine cable at the Alfa station...
Iran eyes 40m tons of transit by 2028 under 7th Development Plan
Tehran Times
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August 30, 2025
TEHRAN – Iran plans to double its annual transit volume to 40 million tons by the end of its Seventh Development Plan in 2028, a senior Transport and Urban Development Ministry official said, highlighting the country’s ambitions to become a...
Iraq plans a federal body for the Development Road project
Zawya
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Iraq is planning to create an independent federal body to oversee the 'Development Road' mega project, Planning Minister Mohammed Ali Tamim has said. During a meeting between officials from Iraq’s government and the Kurdistan Regional Government...
More than 800 Iraqis repatriated from notorious Syria IS camp
The New Arab
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August 28, 2025
More than 800 Iraqi nationals left northeast Syria's Al-Hol camp on Thursday, the facility's director told AFP, the latest batch to quit the notorious camp that holds suspected relatives of Islamic State group jihadists. Jihan Hanan, director of...
Funding crunch shuts down Iraq’s al-Anbar mosques
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T21:34:29+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Al-Anbar The Sunni Endowment Directorate in Iraq’s al-Anbar is facing a severe financial crisis that has left dozens of mosques without electricity or basic services,...
Addressing gender-based violence is an urgent economic imperative
Daily Maverick
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August 28, 2025
Six years after the government declared gender-based violence a national emergency, the numbers remain stubbornly concerning. One in 10 women in South Africa has experienced sexual violence – and reporting remains chronically low. Across various...
Baghdad Launches Five Advanced Medical Projects
Iraq Business News
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August 27, 2025
By John Lee. Iraq's Minister of Industry and Minerals, Khalid Battal Al-Najm, has inaugurated five advanced medical projects at the Baghdad factory of Samarra Pharmaceutical Company. The initiative aims to enhance the production of vital medical...
Taqaddum Party factions exchange fire in Iraq's Diyala province
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T18:54:42+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Diyala Supporters and security personnel of two factions of the Progress (Taqaddum) Party, led by former Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi, clashed in Bahraz, the...
Iraq’s Basra Fair kicks off with strong local and foreign turnout
Shafaq News
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2025-08-27T22:39:56+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Basra The Basra International Fair opened on Wednesday with the participation of 128 companies representing ten countries. Exhibition media director Osama Majid told Shafaq...