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2022-08-23: News Headlines

Staff (2022-08-23). Imam Sajjad; flagbearer of post-Karbala era. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — The other stage of Imam Hussain's movement in Karbala started under the leadership of Imam Sajjad (AS) and through Sahifa Al-Sajjadiya.

Jason Ditz (2022-08-22). Outrage as Leaked Iraq Video Hints at Corruption. news.antiwar.com A newly leaked video making rounds on social media MP Majid Shanqali commented that corruption is "the prevailing culture in which ministries and state departments and their positions are considered business projects for their owners." | Several factions have been warning of soaring corruption in Iraq for years, especially cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The use of ministrie…

TeleSUR (2022-08-22). Up to Seven Bodies Recovered From Collapsed Shrine in Iraq. telesurenglish.net The bodies of four women, two men, and a child have been recovered from the rubble of a landslide on a Shiite shrine near the holy Shiite city of Karbala, the Iraqi Civil Defense said on Monday. | RELATED: | During the past hours, rescue teams recovered the bodies of a man and woman from the rubble that fell on the shrine of Qattarat al-Imam Ali, some 110 km south of Baghdad. Rescue teams worked for hours to provide ox…

____ (2022-08-22). Iraq political groups should interact to get out of problem. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (MNA) — Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi said that all main political groups of Iraq should interact with one another and agree to get out of existing political problems.

____ (2022-08-22). U.S. sends more stolen oil from NE Syria to Iraqi bases. ecns.cn The U.S. forces sent 137 oil-laden tankers from oil fields in northeastern Syria to its bases in Iraq on Sunday, the latest shipment of stolen Syrian oil to be delivered to U.S. bases in Iraq, state news agency SANA reported.

____ (2022-08-22). Turkey launches new airstrike on village in Iraq's Duhok. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (MNA) — A Lebanese news source in Iraq on Monday morning announced the new airstrike launched by Turkish army against a village in Iraq's Duhok province.

_____ (2022-08-21). Study: Cycling Like The Dutch Would Reduce World's Carbon Pollution. popularresistance.org In the Netherlands, cycling is a way of life and is so common that there are more bikes than people, according to BBC News. As many as 70 percent of journeys are by bike in cities like The Hague and Amsterdam. | Cycling can be a significant way to reduce a person's carbon footprint, as using a bike instead of a car as little as once per day reduces an average person's transportation emissions by 67 percent, according to University of Oxford researchers, reported Bloomberg. | An international research team has recently shown that almost 700 million metric tons of carbon pollution would be saved each year if everyo…

____ (2022-08-21). Plundering oil and food in Syria makes U.S. a world robber. ecns.cn U.S. forces have stolen 398 tankers of Syrian oil since Aug. 11 and sent them to bases in Iraq, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday.

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