International Herald Tribune, France — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Kurdistan's Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said Tuesday that Iraq should boost crude oil export capacity to 6 million barrels a day, three times the amount the country is exporting now.
"We think Iraq needs to export more oil," Barzani said to reporters after a press conference in Dubai. "Iraq has (the) capacity to export six million barrels a day, but they're hapMore…
The National, United Arab Emirates — Attracted by the offer of free land and relative political stability, Damac Properties yesterday announced it will build a Dh55 billion (US$18.3bn) mixed-use development in the northern Iraq region of Kurdistan.
Tarin Hills, to be located 18km from Kurdistan’s capital, Erbil, will be the largest development the country has ever seen. It would also be the second-largest project for Damac, whMore…
7DAYS, United Arab Emirates — UAE developer Damac Properties is planning a $15 billion project in Iraq’s Kurdistan province to start by the end of the year, it announced yesterday.
The project, known as ‘Tarin Hills’, includes residential, commercial and hospitality buildings over 170 million square feet in the northern city of Arbil, Damac said.
CEO Peter Riddoch said the hills of Tarin would be “transformed iMore…
Reuters UK — MUMBAI, May 30 (Reuters) - Indian oil refiner Essar Oil Ltd (ESRO.BO: Quote, Profile, Research) is keen to own oil and gas blocks in Iraq's largely autonomous northern Kurdistan region, a senior official said on Friday.
The Kurdistan Regional government has already awarded production-sharing contracts to foreign companies including India's top listed company Reliance Industries Ltd (RELI.BO: QuMore…
Adnkronos International Italia — Erbil, 29 May (AKI) - The autonomous northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan's justice minister, Faruq Jamil, on Thursday told campaign group Amnesty International he wants to abolish the death penalty, according to an unnamed ministry source.
Jamil met a delegation from Amnesty, which is currently on a fact-finding mission to Kurdistan to assess alleged human rights abuses and the legal status of pMore…
Kurdish Globe — The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has urged the United Nations to stop Iran from bombing border villages, a senior official said Wednesday.
'The KRG presented an official memo to the UN office in Erbil, the Iraqi Kurdistan's capital and in Baghdad asking them to help stop Iran from bombing border villages,' KRG Coordinator for UN Affairs Dindar Zebari told a press conference.
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Kurdish Globe — A law banning smoking in governmental buildings in Iraq's Kurdistan region, which was approved by the regional parliament in 2007, will come into force in early June 2008, an official source from the Kurdistan Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.
"The law will come into effect on June 1, and anyone who lights up illegally will be fined 10,000 Iraqi dinars (1 U.S. dollar =1,121 Iraqi dinars),"More…
Kurdish Globe — Professors flee death, choose life in Kurdistan's education system.
Driven from their homes and cities by violence and death threats, Iraqi Arabprofessors are now safely making their homes in Kurdistan Region, bringing with them valuable knowledge to the region's universities.
According to Dr. Idris Hadi, Kurdistan Region's Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, since the U.SMore…
Wall Street Journal — While the media offers mostly images of violence, and many Americans have grown weary of the war in Iraq, I bring hopeful news to Washington this week as I meet with the administration and members of Congress.
Since 2003, we have built the Kurdistan Region as a model for democracy and a gateway for development for all of Iraq. We are willing partners in this transition toward an Iraqi governmenMore…
