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Baghdad, 29 September 2011 -- Former Electricity Minister Raad Shallal was released from jail today, after he vowed to testify before the parliamentary Integrity Commission on Monday, according to ...
29 September 2011 -- In August 2011, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki dismissed the Electricity Minister Shallal al-Ani for two fraudulent deals with foreign companies to build power plants. Deputy Premier ...
Baghdad, 29 September 2011 -- Iraqi police on Wednesday arrested former electricity minister Raad Shallal al-Ani, who was fired last month for approving allegedly improper deals, security and parliamentary ...
Amman, 29 September 2011 -- Iraq's cabinet has approved deals with South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Co. (000720.SE) and Greece-based Metka (METKK.AT) to build power plants in the southern oil hub ...
Tehran, 28 September 2011 -- Iran exported over 3,940 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity in the first half of the current calendar year (began March 21, 2011), showing 26 percent rise compared with ...
26 September 2011 -- In its latest bid to put an end outages, the southern Province of Basra is opting for small-scale power plants, said Governor Khalaf Abdulsamad.
Baghdad, 25 September 2011 -- Energy Minister Hussein al-Shahristani promised that Iraq's electricity crisis will end in 2013.
25 September 2011 -- The Chief of Energy Committee in Baghdad Provincial Council, Arkan Fakhree announced to stop providing the private and state generators in Baghdad with free Kerosene. He pointed ...
Baghdad, 23 September 2011 -- 79 percent of Iraqis have access to potable water from the central distribution network according to environmental survey made by the Iraqi government in cooperation with ...
23 September 2011 -- Mayor of Faw region confirmed that the projects execution of drink water stations in Basra especially Faw, because it wasn’t in the correctly way through following the desalination ...
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