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Sadr’s Supporters Throng Baghdad Streets in Show of Strength

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's followers thronged the streets of Baghdad on Friday, answering the populist leader's call to a mass prayer in a show of strength to his political rivals. Sadr, a Shiite whose party came first in a general election in October, has vowed to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mo Farah: Met Police assessing allegations Olympian was trafficked to UK as child

Met Police says specialist officers are assessing information on claims Olympian was forced to work as servant

The Independent UK

Police ‘assessing’ allegations Sir Mo Farah was trafficked to UK as child

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi praised Sir Mo as a ‘truly inspirational’ role model after the revelations.

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No Nukes? Ukraine-Russian War Will Shape World’s Arsenals

The headlines on the newsstands in Seoul blared fresh warnings of a possible nuclear test by North Korea. Out on the sidewalks, 28-year-old office worker Lee Jae Sang already had an opinion about how to respond to North Korea's fast-growing capacity to lob nuclear bombs across borders and oceans. "Our…

Asharq Al-Awsat

No nukes? Ukraine-Russian war will shape world's arsenals

Nuclear Russia's pillaging of non-nuclear Ukraine is rattling what's already a destabilizing moment in nuclear nonproliferation efforts

The Independent UK

Heidi Stevens: The Chicks don't know it, but they're helping me raise my children. (And doing a darn fine job.)

It’s fair to say The Chicks have helped me raise my children.

Tribune News Service

Hello Commander: new pop song aims to steer Iranian youth away from the temptations of American culture

The Tehran Times recently hailed what it referred to as: “A new epic song themed with generational support for the Islamic Revolution…” Hello Commander, which is being sung by schoolchildren across the country, is an attempt by the current conservative government of Iran to unify the youth around their particular…

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Iraq's Sadr: from outlaw to top politician

Populist Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr went from a mercurial outlaw wanted dead or alive during the U.S. occupation to a kingmaker in politics before transforming himself into the most powerful figure in the country.

Reuters

Iraq Continues to Exhume Mass Graves

A noisy backhoe digs up earth to uncover yet another mass grave in Iraq, human remains are exhumed and the forensics experts get to work on their grim task. A skull is freed from a layer of clay, a tibia is placed in a body bag -- all bound for…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Margaret Beckett is still wrong about the Iraq war and WMD claims

Letter: Frank Jackson on the former Labour deputy leader’s recollections about the 2003 Iraq war

The Guardian - UK

Increase gas and oil? Absolutely not

Author of "The World Without Us" on his recent trip to Iraq — and why the Ukraine war is no excuse to pump more oil

Salon

'I escaped Saddam Hussein's regime as a child - now I want to be Miss England'

Roza Kurdo and her mum scaped savage mass killings in Iraqi Kurdistan and sought a better life in Britain. She is now 25 and is hoping to be crowned Miss England 2022

Daily Mirror

Russia and the U.S.: Dance of death

Doddering Cold War adversaries are marching toward war: For their decrepit elites, it's literally the last hurrah

Salon

‘Our River… Our Sky’ – Iraqi filmmaker confronts violence and anguish in 2006 Baghdad

Maysoon Pachachi’s latest feature film explores the agonising decisions faced by an interwoven cast of friends and family living in Baghdad in 2006. The film’s narrative unfolds over the course of the last week of 2006, a timeframe that culminates in the execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. But…

France 24

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After the War

In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's time for Europe to step up and America to step back.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraq Exhibits Restored Art Pillaged after 2003 Invasion

Verdant landscapes, stylized portraits of peasant women, curved sculptures -- an exhibition in Baghdad is allowing art aficionados to rediscover the pioneers of contemporary Iraqi art. Around one hundred items are on display in the capital, returned and restored nearly two decades after they were looted. Many of the works,…

The Independent UK

In Iran, Russia's war on Ukraine is a political flash point

Russia’s war on Ukraine has exposed just how much Iran has tilted toward Moscow in recent years

The Independent UK

Nandine: South London’s Kurdish culinary gem deserves all the hype

Pary Baban fills a hole in London’s culinary landscape with a restaurant serving dishes bursting with flavour and character from her homeland, Kurdistan, writes James Schaak

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Neocon war hawks: They're back!

The warmongering buffoons who drove the U.S. to disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan are now eager for war with Russia

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraqi President Calls for New Phase of Reforms

Iraqi President Barham Saleh warned against the political deadlock and delay in forming a new government after six months of conducting the early elections. In a statement marking the 19th anniversary of the US occupation and the overthrow of former President Saddam Hussein's regime, Saleh called for a new political…

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Iraqis Clean up River as First Green Projects Take Root

Garbage clogs the banks of Iraq's Tigris River in Baghdad but an army of young volunteers is cleaning it, a rare environmental project in the war-battered country. With boots and gloves, they pick up soggy trash, water bottles, aluminum cans and muddy styrofoam boxes, part of a green activist campaign…

The Conversation

Lessons in realpolitik from Nixon and Kissinger: Ideals go only so far in ending conflict in places like Ukraine

The U.S. has limited options in confronting Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

Manchester Evening News

Cheetham Hill student will travel to Iraq for documentary

Zain Ullah is investigating the impact of the Iraq War on Iraqi citizens

Evening Standard

Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi praises ‘fantastic ethos’ of grammar schools

The DNA of grammar schools should be spread throughout the system, he said

The Independent UK

Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi wants to ‘spread the DNA’ of grammar schools

Mr Zahawi gave a speech to staff and pupils at Monega Primary School in Newham, east London, and held a conference with journalists.

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