While oil flows, questions over compensation and disputes between KRG and Baghdad remain.
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Plus: *New budget approved after further cuts *New Report: More than Shiites and Sunnis *Iraq Teachers Union targeted by government *Video-Alive in Baghdad: US Withdrawing as Media Retreat from Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has lent his support to a new two-pronged oil-development strategy in an attempt to appease those who have challenged the [...]
Iraqi oil exports slide since May but turnaround expected
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Maliki makes waves with gov't change
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's call for majority rule provokes strong reactions.
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Baghdadis resigned to sporadic violence
They say it will continue to plague the city for some time, but won’t stop them getting on with their lives.
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Iraqis find dialogue on oil issues in London
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Interview: Iraqi Kurdistan’s coordinator for U.N. missions … Iraqi oil capital Basra faces tough new year … Kurds make deal with Sunni Arabs … Pentagon to make example of journalist: treat like terrorist …
There is one Iraq, but there are also two: the northern, potentially oil-rich region controlled by Iraq's Kurds, and the rest of Iraq. That, says the Kurdish liaison to U.N. efforts in Iraqi Kurdistan, is how the international community should view it. "We say Iraq could not be treated as one simple state," said Dindar [...]
