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01/04/2013

French press review 1 April 2013

France is in Easter holiday mode, but making news: the new Pope's first Easter Mass; reflections on the war in Iraq, and the end of the "Winter Truce" for non-paying renters in ...

New study on Iraq War effects
16/03/2013 - World news explained

New study on Iraq War effects

Iraq marks a sombre 10-year anniversary next week. It will be ten years since the start of the intervention led by the United States, which brought down President Saddam Hussein and his ...

Mobile medical unit tries to care for Iraqi Kurdistan's no-man's land
13/03/2013 - International report

Mobile medical unit tries to care for Iraqi Kurdistan's no-man's land

The long-running standoff between Baghdad and Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region over who should control certain territories has left the area without a functioning government. As a ...

22/01/2013 - France - Iraq

French oil giant Total, former minister on trial in Iraqi oil-for-food scandal

French oil giant Total, its chief executive and former French interior minister Charles Pasqua were in the dock in Paris on Monday, accused of breaking an embargo on Iraq under Saddam ...

04/01/2013 - France - Switzerland - Britain - Iraq

French police to question Swiss gunman over French Alps killing of British family

French police investigating the murder of a British-Iraqi family in the French Alps in September have asked to question a Swiss gunman who killed three women in a Swiss village on Wednesday.

Syria refugees flee to Kurdistan
04/01/2013 - International report

Syria refugees flee to Kurdistan

As the civil war in Syria continues, refugees are fleeing the country on a daily basis. Many Syrian Kurds head for the Kurdistan Region of Northern Iraq situated just across the border.

25/12/2012 - Report: Iraq

Christians in Iraq celebrate Christmas in Kurdistan

Iraq’s Kurdistan Region is home to one of the world's oldest Christian communities.

Syria's Kurds flee to northern Iraq
13/11/2012 - International report

Syria's Kurds flee to northern Iraq

French police have renewed calls for information to solve the shooting murders in the French Alps in September
06/10/2012 - France - Britain - Iraq

Telephone glitch delays hotline for French Alps shooting witnesses

French police investigating the shooting deaths of a British-Iraqi family in the Alps have delayed launching a hotline for witnesses because there is no dedicated phone number for people to ...

10/09/2012 - France - Britain

Bomb squad leaves French Alps murder house in Claygate

British army bomb disposal experts on Monday left the house in Surrey in southern England belonging to the family killed in the French Alps after examining a number of suspicious items.

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