Oranges, car wheels and live sheep: things used to smuggle Captagon in Recently discovered artefacts on display at the Iraqi National Museum. Egyptian scientists digitally unwrap 3,year-old mummy. The man who spends 1, Jordanian dinars a month to feed stray dogs.
Mo Salah faces backlash for sharing Christmas photos. According to a press release from Zwipe, this will be the first biometric payment card pilot in the country, and INC will be offering issuance of white […]. The Ministry of Finance has directed the Public Debt Department, in cooperation with the Central Bank of Iraq CBI to launch a second issue of construction bonds, which will be tradable on the stock market. The bonds, also know as a "binaa bonds", will be available for trading for a period of […].
In […]. Tensions culminated in November with an assassination attempt with armed drones against Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi's residence - an attack blamed on Iran-aligned groups. The premier was unharmed.
The Court rejected the appeal filed by Iran-backed factions and ratified the election results late last month, clearing the way for a government to be formed. Lawmakers at Sunday's session are expected to elect a parliamentary speaker and two deputies.
Parliament will then have to elect a new president, who in turn will have 15 days to appoint a prime minister nominated by the largest bloc to form a new government.
Under an unofficial agreement dating back to the U. The election was held months ahead of schedule in response to mass protests in late , which saw tens of thousands in Baghdad and predominantly Shiite southern provinces rally against endemic corruption, poor services and unemployment. They also protested against the heavy-handed interference of neighboring Iran in Iraq's affairs through Iran-backed militias.
Independent candidates drawn from the October protest movement who ran under the Imtidad list won nine seats. Some of them arrived to the parliament building riding a tuk tuk from Tahrir square, the epicenter of the protest movement. The colorful three-wheeled motorcycle vehicles ferried demonstrators back and forth from the square and became a symbol of the protest movement. Hamzeh Hadad, a political analyst, said the makeup of the new parliament could help make elected officials more accountable to the public due to the new smaller electoral districts.
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