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World personalities to attend 1988 Halabja massacre

Sulaimaniyah, Mar. 14 (AKnews) – Mayor of Halabja announced that on the 22nd anniversary of Halabja poisonous gas attack on March 16 a number of international personalities will attend a commemoration ceremony.  "We have invited a number of personalities and mayors across the globe, a number will attend but others will not, however... Read more

Erbil, March.14 (AKnews). Some specialized sources in monitoring the Iraqi elections in Sweden said that the representatives of political entities filed a complaint to the High Independent Electoral Commission in Iraq protesting on freezing 6 thousands votes in the seven polling stations in Sweden. "Representatives of the electoral...

• Observers: more than 4200 votes in Germany disconsidered
• IHEC: 32.34% of ballots sorted across Iraq as of yet
• Concerns over poll fraud in Kirkuk

Nineveh, March .14 (AKnews) - The Iraqi police said on Sunday that one of its members was killed and two were wounded, one of them is a Christian, in different incidents of violence occurred in the city of Mosul, north of Baghdad.  "unidentified armed men attacked on Sunday a policeman in the normal vacation and showered him with...

• Iraq attends World Medicine Fair in Cairo
• 70's wedding in Qadisiyah
• US returned sarcophagus to Egypt

Karbala, March 14 (AKnews)-  The head of the strategist reconstruction in Karbala Provincial Council said on Sunday that supervising engineers in one residential projects embezzled about 3 million Iraqi dinars, while Karbala governer announced the formation of operations room to fight financial and administrative corruption in government...

• International Industrial exhibition opened in Iraqi Kurdistan
• France ready to train Iraqi cadres in the field of nuclear energy
• International exhibitions for fashion and machinery in Erbil

Baghdad , March .(AKnews).A former International referee and a member in referees committee of football mentioned on Sunday that the committee decided to hold four training courses for the new  young referees in Iraq . “the committee decided to hold training courses of football inside the closed halls for the new trainees according...

• Iraq Football: results and standings
• Germans train Kurdish referees
• Kurdistan Region hosts Basketball Super League Competition next Month

Baghdad, March.14 (AKnews). The electoral commission in Iraq delayed for the second consecutive day the announcement of partial results of the election until Monday, stressing that it is continuing to investigate the complaints submitted to it by political entities.   “60% of the results will be announced on Monday, while the complete...

• World personalities to attend 1988 Halabja massacre
• Kirkuk court fights terrorism
• Mosul governor blocks aids to Kurdish families: official

Erbil Mar. 8 (AKnews) – Only a few minutes after the closures of voting centers for the Iraqi legislative poll, all the contesting political entities in Kurdistan Region have been talking about their "victory", "delighting results", and "the number of garnered seats", whilst the IHEC has not officially...

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Saturday, March 13th 2010 5:58 PM

Erbil, Mar. 13 (AKnews) – Although the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has only unveiled less than the total results of the poll, but a number of blocs are expressing their concerns about frauds especially after rumors evoked about the involvement of a high-rank official of the commission in making forgery in favor of the State of...

• Farzin Karim speaks about the situation of Kurdish cinema
• Kirkuk's refugees vote despite hard life
• Iraqi elections were regional landmark