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The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

The Netherlands takes steps to prosecute crimes against Yazidis

Yazidi community hails ‘the beginning of our path to justice’ as Dutch citizen could face jail for Yazidi enslavement.

Al Jazeera

Iraq's $27B deal with TotalEnergies could ease its longstanding energy crisis, but challenges remain

A multi-billion dollar agreement signed with France’s TotalEnergies could help resolve Iraq’s longstanding electricity crisis

The Independent UK

From militia leader to refugee: The backstory of the man who burned a Koran in Sweden

Soon after a Chrisitan Iraqi man named Salwan Momika burned a Koran in front of Sweden’s largest mosque on June 28, 2023, it was reported that he was a member of a Swedish ultra-nationalist party. Then videos from Momika’s past in Iraq started to surface. This footage showed him wearing…

France 24

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Friends and colleagues ‘appalled’ by lies about Princeton doctoral student kidnapped in Iraq

Those who know Elizabeth Tsurkov came to her defence after some of her tweets from more than 10 years ago circulated, fuelling claims that she is a spy

The Independent UK

Biden’s biggest gaffes: Muddling up wars, dozing off mid-event and a series of tumbles

President Joe Biden has a well-documented history of embarrassing gaffes. Here are some of his most notorious blunders to date

The Independent UK

Killer virus spreading across Europe 'highly likely' to reach UK and its symptoms

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) broke out in Iraq and Namibia and has also caused two reported deaths in Pakistan. Experts have said it is "highly likely" to reach the UK.

Glasgow Live

British counter terror forces to help train Iraqi commandos in how to smash ISIS

In the next few weeks the British will help train the Iraqi commandos to hunt down other ISIS cells

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Iraq investigates militia kidnapping of Israeli-Russian academic

The Israeli government has said Tsurkov is being held by the Shia militia Kataib Hezbollah.

Al Jazeera

Six Days in Fallujah preview: not a shooter but a horror game

Six Days in Fallujah is a well-built, if minimalist, simulation but takes liberties when it comes to telling the stories of Iraqi lives affected by the invasion.

TechRadar

Sculpting words and war, and a show of two halves – the week in art

Doris Salcedo and others weigh their words, Tim Shaw memorialises the Iraq war and Tino Sehgal arranges a big match for different kinds of creativity – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Photojournalist Chloe Sharrock: 'By choosing to cover a story we are already taking sides'

She's documented war and conflict – and its devastating aftermath – in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and Gaza, and shone a spotlight on women's struggles in India and Egypt, with her images appearing in the likes of Le Monde, Libération, The Washington Post, Newsweek and Stern Magazine. She's back in France…

France 24

Princeton doctoral student kidnapped in Iraq by Iran-backed militia

Ms. Tsurkov’s colleagues at New Line Magazine wrote they hadn’t heard from her since 19 March

The Independent UK

Iran-Backed Militia Holds Dual Israeli-Russian Citizen Hostage In Iraq

Kata'ib Hezbollah, designated as a Foreign Terror Organization, is responsible for the abduction

Zenger

Princeton doctoral student kidnapped in Iraq on research trip

Ms. Tsurkov’s colleagues at New Line Magazine wrote they hadn’t heard from her since 19 March

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Al Jazeera

Israeli-Russian academic held by militia in Iraq, Netanyahu says

Israeli PM’s office holds Iraq responsible for wellbeing of Elizabeth Tsurkov, who went missing months ago.

The Week

Desertification: Iraq’s worsening water crisis

When many thousands of Iraqis turn on their taps “nothing comes out”, said Hayder Indhar for Phys.org.

Al Jazeera

Action needed against ‘religious hatred’ after Quran defiled: OIC

Defilement of the Muslim holy book in Sweden has prompted international condemnation including large protests in Iraq.

The Independent UK

Mark Rylance on royalty, method acting and the Iraq war: ‘I’ve talked with the King about who wrote Shakespeare’s plays’

The generational stage actor speaks to Chris Harvey about Timothée Chalamet, his ‘failure’ at the Globe, and his new play ‘Dr Semmelweis’

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Manchester Evening News

Iraqi man living in Manchester to be 'forcibly removed' from UK and deported TOMORROW

The journalist fears he could be killed if he is forcibly removed

Daily Mirror

Iraq's amputee football team defy war injuries to represent nation's rise from ashes

Bravery and determination – something we have seen all over Baghdad 20 years on from the 2003 invasion – drove Mohammed al-Najjar to create the team

The Independent UK

Thousands protest in Iraq for a second day over burning of Quran in Sweden

Thousands of followers of the Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr have staged protests in major cities in Iraq, including in the capital of Baghdad and the southern city of Basra, to condemn the burning earlier this week of a Quran by an Iraqi man in Sweden

The Independent UK

Protesters briefly storm the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad in protest over Quran burning

Hundreds of followers of the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada Sadr have briefly stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad in protest of the burning of a Quran in Sweden

The Independent UK

Jesse Watters tries to mock Biden for confusing Ukraine for Iraq - but then mixes countries up himself

Tucker Carlson’s replacement mistakingly says Biden confused Iraq with Afghanistan

Bangkok Post

Iraq denounces ‘racist’ Koran burning in Sweden

BAGHDAD: Iraq has condemned as “racist” and “irresponsible” the burning of a copy of the Koran by an Iraqi living in Sweden during a protest authorised by the police.

Evening Standard

Joe Biden confuses Ukraine war with Iraq in latest on-screen gaffe

It is not the first time the US president has muddled Ukraine with Iraq, which America invaded in 2003

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