Economics and Policy Gold rose more than one per cent on Monday and held near its highest level in more than a week as a rebound in prices from multi-year…
Iraq
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Brigadier General Sarhad Qader, the police chief of the troubled Iraqi city of Kirkuk, sighed as he flipped through the photos of the officers killed in bombings earlier in January.…
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Sitting atop shifting sands, the Mosul Dam in western Iraq is precariously vulnerable to cavities that regularly form beneath it. If the holes grow large enough, they can threaten the…
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Economics Gold regained strength on Wednesday as a weaker US dollar spurred buying from jewellers, but prices were still within sight of an almost four-month low given signs of progress…
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Economics Brent crude rose above $108 a barrel on Friday on a brighter outlook for China's economy, the world's second largest oil consumer, but worries about the impact of a…
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Amidst the fog of war in Syria, the clamor of sanctions and the threat of conflict in Iran, some transnational business deals in the region have slipped quietly. That was…
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Economics A new Turkish state oil and gas company is negotiating with Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to take stakes in several exploration blocks – a development that would signal dramatic…
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Economics US oil giant Exxon Mobil wants to leave its giant oilfield project in southern Iraq, diplomatic sources said, in a move likely to aggravate the country's internal tensions…
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Oman plans to boost its 2013 budget spending by 10 percent compared to this year's plan to fund new infrastructure projects, an official source familiar with the government's financial planning…
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Russia overtook Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest crude producer in July, just one month after the kingdom took the top spot for the first time in six years. Production…