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CORRUPTION IN IRAQ
Iraq cancels $764 million Baghdad airport project over corruption concernsIraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has put a halt to the $764 million initiative to revamp Baghdad International Airport, following serious ...- US DoJ drops charges against Adanis, othersUS authorities have dropped criminal charges against Gautam Adani and Adani Group executives. This follows a 19-month investigation. The co...
- Soaring inflation and plummeting economy test Iran's ability to withstand war and US blockadeIran faces severe economic hardship due to war and US sanctions. Prices for essentials like food and medicine have surged. Job losses and b...
- ‘Iranians now blame US-Israel, not Tehran, for their economic woes’Iran's economy, known as the 'resistance economy', is facing severe impacts from the ongoing US-Israel war. Economic pressures are mounting...
- "Iran holds the upper hand": Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi calls for "sacred resistance" to defeat enemiesAccording to the state broadcaster Press TV, the high-ranking cleric on Tuesday urged the Iranian people to maintain their "sacred and hist...
- Nouri al-Maliki's comeback: Powerbroker set to return as Iraq PMNouri al-Maliki: A central figure in Iraq's politics and its only two-term premier since the US invasion of 2003, the 75-year-old Shiite Ar...
- Iraq fears power cuts as US ends sanctions waiver for electricity purchases from IranThe United States has not renewed a waiver allowing Iraq to buy electricity from Iran without violating sanctions. This decision is part of...
- Iraq's Saddam still revered in Jordan 20 years laterOn March 20, 2003, then US president George W. Bush launched Operation "Iraqi Freedom" with a ground invasion by 150,000 US and 40,000 Brit...
- Iraqi Prime Minister replaces Central Bank governor over currency dropThe dinar hit new lows on Friday, reaching about 1,670 to the dollar. The currency has lost nearly 7 per cent of its value since mid-Novemb...
- Iraq's election: How it works, main playersA new single-member constituency system is supposed to boost independents and reduce traditional political blocs, largely centred on religi...
- United States to announce troop drawdown from Iraq, but little is expected to changeMost of Iraq’s paramilitary units were formed in 2014 in response to a call by the country’s most revered Shiite cleric for Iraqis to mobil...
- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledges support for Iraq, targets pro-Iran militiasPompeo spoke after talks with senior Iraqi officials and a day before a White House meeting between Trump and Iraq's prime minister, Mustaf...
- View: Iraq may be the next flash point for crude oil marketSouthern Iraq is home to most of Iraq’s oil industry and the protests have reached Basra.
- India improves on transparency corruption index, scores 40 out of 100The Berlin-based anti-graft organisation has used World Bank data, the World Economic Forum and other institutions to rank 176 countries by...
- The 12 most corrupt countries in the world"Corruption risks are particularly prevalent in developing economies," Trevor Slack, legal and regulatory analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, wro...
- Why SABRE can still write the rulebook on scamming taxpayers?Fed up with corruption in India? Wearing a Hazare topi to work? Don’t despair too soon, because things can get worse.
- India still among most corrupt countries in the world: Transparency InternationalIndia has been ranked 84th in the list of 180 countries in terms of public-sector corruption, which is perceived to be highly corrupt. Worl...
- 'UN reconstruction projects meaningful to Iraq's recovery'UN reconstruction projects made a "real and meaningful impact" on Iraq's recovery, an independent report has found.
- Democrat blames Iraq war for weak economyThe growing cost to the United States of fighting the war in Iraq "is not only linked to our economic skid, but is a leading cause of it," ...
- Not just Iraq war, but graft, sex too played a role in US verdictSex and corruption scandals, as much as the war in Iraq, motivated US voters to cast their ballots against President George W Bush’s govern...
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