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Iraq's official media regulator has directed all media and social media companies operating not to use the term “homosexuality". The Arab stated told to replace the word ‘homosexuality’ with ‘sexual deviance’, Reuters' report mentioned. The Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC) said that the use of the term "gender" was also banned.

Also Read: US Defense chief visits Iraq for talks on troop presence US officials say the arrangement, with Iraqi forces in the lead, since December 2021, has proven successful. US estimates show IS ranks have been cut to fewer than 1,000 fighters in Iraq while the group's leadership in Iraq has likewise been continually degraded by Iraqi forces.

New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised an alert over a batch of contaminated cough syrup found in Iraq and manufactured by an Indian drug company. This is the latest in the series of such warnings about substandard medicines from India. The cough syrup, manufactured by Fourrts (India) Laboratories Pvt Ltd and branded COLD OUT, was found to contain unacceptable amounts of contaminants diethylene glycol (0.25%) and ethylene glycol (2.1%).

Bloomberg News purchased a sample of the syrup at a pharmacy in Baghdad in March and arranged a test by an independent Connecticut-based lab, Valisure LLC. Moreover, Bloomberg also reported the test results to the WHO as well as to Iraqi and Indian authorities last month. Last month, according to a test by Bloomberg News said that, the cold medication that was sold in Iraq is tainted with toxic chemicals.

Telegram messaging application across the country on «national security» grounds, drawing criticism on channels close to pro-Iran factions. The service was effectively blocked by midday on Sunday, with new messages not loading for users in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Iraq's telecoms ministry said it has blocked the Telegram messaging app over national security concerns and in order to preserve the integrity of users' personal data, which it said the app had mishandled.

Banks from four Arab countries are interested in investing in Lebanon’s struggling banking sector, which has been hard-hit by the small nation’s three-year economic meltdown

Koran alight outside parliament in Stockholm on Monday, an AFP reporter saw, at a protest similar to previous ones that have sparked tensions between Sweden and Middle Eastern countries.Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem kicked and stomped on the Muslim holy book, then set its pages on fire before slamming it shut, as they had done at a protest outside Stockholm's main mosque in late June — sparking outrage and condemnation across the Middle East. The duo also staged a similar protest outside Iraq's embassy in Stockholm on July 20, where they stomped on the religious text but did not burn it. Swedish police granted a permit for the protest by campaigners hoping to see the Koran banned in the country, according to local media.

Quran in front of foreign embassies in Denmark, the country's Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said as quoted by AL Jazeera. In an official statement, Rasmussen condemned the burnings, saying that they are deeply offensive and reckless acts committed by a few individuals.

Al-Qaeda is shaping its Indian subcontinent offshoot to spread its operations to Jammu and Kashmir, as well as to Bangladesh and Myanmar. The Al-Qaida core in Afghanistan remains stable at 30-60 members, while the number of Al-Qaeda fighters in that country is estimated to be 400, reaching 2,000 with family members and supporters included, according to the report prepared by the UN Security Council 1267 Sanctions & Associated Committee that deals with the ISIS and Al Qaeda. Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS, which is not listed by the UN) has about 200 fighters, with Osama Mehmood being the emir, according to the report.

Muharram procession was allowed by J&K administration in Srinagar after nearly three decades. While the decision to allow the procession on the 8th of Muharram, which marks the starting of the Islamic year (this year starting on July 19), has been widely praised. It has also generated calls to abolish the ban on the traditional Ashura march on Muharram 10th.

ZURICH (Reuters) -Relations of a U.S. aid worker and American soldiers — all killed or injured by Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front — have lodged a legal claim against cement maker Lafarge over payments the French company made to extremist groups.

Bloomberg News. With this, it becomes the latest in a series of alarming revelations about syrup medicines used by children around the world. According to Valisure LLC, an independent US laboratory, a bottle of Cold Out purchased at a pharmacy in Baghdad in March contains 2.1% ethylene glycol, about 21 times the widely accepted limit.

defence spending would boost the economy. “We can reap a genuine peace dividend this year and then year after year, in the form of permanently reduced defence budgets," he declared in 1992. The world took note.

Iraq on Thursday, two Iraqi security sources said, adding there were no casualties. The helicopter crashed in Makhmour region, about 60 km (40 miles) southwest of the Kurdish capital of Erbil, the sources said.

Dozens of people have protested in front of the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad and bank owners called for official action to stem a sharp increase in the dollar exchange rate

India aims to resume ONGC Videsh's operations in I... moreIndia aims to resume ONGC Videsh's operations in Iraq's hydrocarbon exploration block, which has been under force majeure since 2003.

Greta Thunberg is set to go on trial on Monday charged with disobeying police at a rally last month, in which activists blocked the port in the city of Malmo. She is due to appear before the court in the southern Swedish city at 0930 GMT. The 20-year-old activist «took part in a demonstration that disrupted traffic» and «refused to obey police orders to leave the site», according to the charge sheet seen by AFP. She faces a maximum sentence of six months in prison, but prosecutor Charlotte Ottosen told AFP that usually these types of charges result in fines. The rally, organised by environmental activist group «Ta tillbaka framtiden» (Reclaim the Future), tried to block the entrance and exit to the Malmo harbour to protest against the use of fossil fuel.

Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and the seat of Iraq's government, early Saturday following reports of the burning of a Quran carried out by a ultranationalist group in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen. They were pushed back by security forces, who blocked the Jumhuriya bridge leading to the Green Zone, preventing them from reaching the Danish Embassy. The protest came two days after people angered by the planned burning of the Islamic holy book in Sweden stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad.

Quran in Sweden. Some prepared for street demonstrations following midday prayers to show their anger. In Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, protesters planned demonstrations after Swedish police permitted a protest Thursday in which an Iraqi Christian living in Stockholm kicked and stood on a Quran, Islam's holy book, outside of the Iraqi Embassy.

food ministry data, the retail price of the grain climbed about 15%  in Delhi this year while the average nationwide price gained more than 8%. Shipments will be allowed on the basis of permission granted by the government to other countries to meet their food security needs and based on request of their governments, the notification said.  The latest Indian government move, which has already imposed restrictions on wheat and sugar exports, would affect a large portion of global rice trade.