BAGHDAD, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Iraq exported 101.58 million barrels of crude oil in December, bringing in revenues of more than 7 billion U.S. dollars, the Iraqi oil ministry said on Saturday. The average selling price for crude oil in the month was more than 72 dollars per barrel, according to a ministry statement, citing statistics from the State Organization for Marketing of
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Chinese lecturer Zhiwei Hu speaks to students in the Chinese language department at Salahaddin University in Irbil, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2021. IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — In a classroom in northern Iraq, Zhiwei Hu presides over his students as a conductor would an orchestra. He cues with a question, and the response from his students resounds in perfect, fluent Chinese. The 5
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Iraq have established a data center for all the opportunities, solutions and decisions that serve the business community between the two countries, Mohammed Al-Khorayef said at Saudi-Iraqi Business Forum in Riyadh. Al-Khorayef, who heads Saudi-Iraqi Business Council at the Council of Saudi Chambers, said that both countries are working on establishin
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The population of Iraq has hit its highest figure so far at over 41 million, according to a statement released by the Iraqi planning ministry on Monday based on figures from the end of 2021. Announcing its annual projections of the size of the population in December, including in the Kurdistan Region, the Iraqi Ministry of Planning estimated the tot
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The Iraqi cabinet approved the framework agreement for the project to install a pipeline to transfer Iraqi crude oil from Basra to Jordan’s Aqaba port on the Red Sea. Jordanian Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Saleh Kharabsheh said his Iraqi counterpart Ihsan Abdul Jabbar informed him of the cabinet’s decision in a phone call and commissioned him to complete the proc
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