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A lone legislator in a legislative committee: void left by resigned Sadrist MPs

Shafaq News/The mass resignation of the Sadrist lawmakers from the Iraqi parliament has left some committees with only a single name on its roster, the rapporteur of the Youth and Sports Committee said on Monday.

"I am the only primary member in the committee," said lawmaker Jiyai Taymour in a statement to Shafaq News Agency, "all the other members

Details: Category: Iraq; Published: 08 November 2022

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COVID-19: three mortalities and +370 new cases in Iraq

Shafaq News/ Iraq logged only 373 COVID-19 cases in the past seven days, the Ministry of Health said today, Monday.

In its weekly epidemiological report on COVID-19, the Ministry reported 234 recoveries and three mortalities.

The cumulative count of COVID-19 patients since the emergence of the virus in the region amounted to 2,461,857, of whom

Details: Category: Iraq; Published: 08 November 2022

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Exclusive: ministry completes investigations into a corrupt fertilizer deal uncovered by Shafaq News

Shafaq News/ In August 2022, British company AAA Holding began fertilizer production in Basra with Iraq's Southern Fertilizer Public Company. The joint venture announced a new DAP (Diammonium Phosphate) fertilizer project had come online in Basra with an annual capacity of 500,000 tonnes.

Fertilizer prices have soared to new highs due to Russia's

Details: Category: Iraq; Published: 08 November 2022

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Al-Waziriyah fire: 32 injured, 10 missing as firefighters extinguish the flames after 10 hours

Shafaq News/ At least 32 people were injured, including the head of Iraq’s civil defense directorate, after a commercial building in the capital Baghdad caught fire and then collapsed on Sunday.

The civil defense directorate said in a statement that Maj. Gen. Kadhim Bohan, along with a number of firefighters, were at the scene when the burning