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Iraq to Offer New Proposals to Implement OPEC Oil Output Cut

LONDON—Iraq will offer three new proposals at a meeting in Vienna this coming week to discuss implementing an OPEC accord to cut output, Iraq’s Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said late Sunday, in the latest sign the country is inching closer to resolving its differences with the cartel. The options will be consistent with OPEC policy and are designed to bolster ...

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Mosul advances prove power of Iraq government: Iran VP

The Iranian first vice president says the recent achievements made by Iraqi forces during their operation to liberate the key northern city of Mosul from Daesh Takfiri terrorists in parallel with the management of Arba’een mourning rituals in Iraq prove the country’s power. “The command of the big battle in Mosul against terrorists, simultaneous with the Arba’een mass march, which ...

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Gun-loving India ‘god-woman’ who shot wedding guests

BY KALAHAN DENG Sadhvi Deva Thakur, a self-proclaimed Indian god-woman who was on the run for three days after firing celebratory shots in the air at a wedding, has surrendered to a court. The groom’s aunt was killed and three of his relatives critically wounded in the incident. The BBC’s Geeta Pandey profiles this controversial preacher. In a video of ...

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Alleged police torture case triggers uproar in Egypt

CAIRO Reports that an Egyptian street vendor was tortured to death inside a Cairo police station has sparked uproar on social media and led to calls for an investigation into the alleged incident. Relatives of Magdi Makeen say the 50-year-old fish seller was detained by police Sunday in Egypt’s capital while driving his fish cart. Shortly afterward, they allege, he ...

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To Mosul and back: Sunni Arabs seek place in a shifting Iraq leftright 13/13leftright

When Kurdish forces began rounding up his relatives and friends, 23-year-old Iraqi Omar Abdallah fled with his pregnant wife and four brothers to Mosul. At the time, life under Islamic State seemed preferable for the Sunni Arab to indefinite detention. That was shortly after the ultra-hardline Sunni group captured large areas of northern Iraq in the summer in 2014, and ...

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Iran overtakes Saudi Arabia as top oil supplier to India

Iran used to be India’s second-biggest oil supplier, a position it ceded to Iraq after tough Western sanctions over its nuclear development programme limited Tehran’s exports and access to finance. But India’s oil imports from Iran have shot up this year after those sanctions were lifted in January. In October they surged more than threefold compared with the same month ...

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Iran to unveil Karrar tank, Saba-248 helicopter soon: Defense minister

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan says the country is set to unveil a new domestically-manufactured helicopter and an advanced tank in the near future. Dehqan said on Wednesday that the Saba-248 helicopter and the Karrar tank would be unveiled in the near future. He added that the two newly-developed military hardware have been designed and manufactured by local ...

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Battle with IS leaves melting pot Iraq town in ruins

Bashiqa (Iraq) (AFP) – Dilshad Salim stares in disbelief at the devastated ruins of his hometown Bashiqa in northern Iraq several days after Kurdish forces took it back from the Islamic State jihadist group. “This was my cousin’s place,” he says, pointing at the ruins of a tile shop, then to a gutted building across the street: “This was my ...

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Eleven Arab Nations Accuse Iran of Sponsoring Terrorism in Middle East

Nearly a dozen Arab nations accused Iran on Monday of sponsoring “terrorism” throughout the Middle East while increasing support for jihadist groups since signing the international nuclear deal last summer. In a letter to the U.N. General Assembly, 11 Middle East and North African countries condemned Iran for continuing “to play a negative role in causing tension and instability in ...

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The CA Tumor Markers Testing Market

Tumor markers are biological substances found in the body tissues, blood and urine; that can be elevated when a person is suffering from cancer. Tumor markers are normally made of cancerous cells or by the body in response to cancer. Traditional tumor markers are proteins; however newer tumor markers are genetic substances. There are various types of cancer antigen (CA) ...

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