Designs for Baghdad Metro finished The Iraqi Prime Minister's advisor on transport affairs said on Thursday that the designs for the Baghdad Metro project have been completed. 03/28/2024 - 9:49 am | View Link
Book exhibition showcasing Ottoman culture opens in Baghdad Türkiye announces its intent to declare March 27 Türkiye-Iraq Joint Culture Day, says Turkish Ambassador to Iraq ... 03/27/2024 - 10:43 pm | View Link
U.S. Encourages Better Ties Between Baghdad and Erbil, including Resumption of KRG Oil Exports The Secretary encouraged efforts to enhance the Baghdad-Erbil relationship,” which will “bring economic benefits to all Iraqis," and "promote stability and security." ... 03/26/2024 - 10:02 pm | View Link
Baghdad Criminal Court releases killer of al-Hashemi due to lack of evidence "The court rejected all charges against Hamdawi in the murder of Hisham al-Hashemi, stating that the evidence was unsubstantiated and his previous confessions did not prove his guilt," a lawyer ... 03/25/2024 - 7:38 pm | View Link
Baghdad’s Centralization Push: Two Court Rulings Undercut Kurdish Autonomy and Washington’s Role in Iraq Two recent rulings from Iraq’s supreme court would dismantle Kurdistan’s ability to elect minorities and even pay its own employees. Baghdad’s aggressive push toward centralization has not gone ... 03/25/2024 - 10:58 am | View Link
History of Baghdad As the capital of the modern Republic of Iraq, Baghdad has a metropolitan area estimated at a population of 7,000,000 divided into neighborhoods in nine districts. It is the largest city in Iraq, the second-largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo) and the second-largest city in West Asia (after Tehran ). 03/22/2024 - 7:02 pm | View Link
History of Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq | Britannica Baghdad, or Bagdad, City (pop., 2011 est.: 6,150,000), capital of Iraq. Located on the Tigris River, the site has been settled from ancient times. It rose to importance after being chosen in 762 ce by Caliph al-Manṣūr (r. 754–775) as the capital of the ʿAbbāsid dynasty. 03/22/2024 - 4:36 am | View Link
Baghdad Baghdad ( / ˈbæɡdæd / ⓘ BAG-dad or / bəɡˈdæd / bəg-DAD; Arabic: بَغْدَاد, romanized : Baghdād, [baɣˈdaːd] ⓘ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris river. 03/22/2024 - 1:08 am | View Link
Baghdad | History, Population, Map, & Facts | Britannica Baghdad, city, capital of Iraq and capital of Baghdad governorate, central Iraq. Its location, on the Tigris River about 330 miles (530 km) from the headwaters of the Persian Gulf, is in the heart of ancient Mesopotamia. Baghdad is Iraq’s largest city and one of the most populous urban agglomerations of the Middle East. 03/21/2024 - 11:06 pm | View Link
Baghdad – Travel guide at Wikivoyage Query and show. Baghdad (Arabic: بـغداد Baġdād) is the capital and largest city of Iraq, with an estimated population of 6-7 million. Once one of the greatest centres of learning and culture in the world, Baghdad has a long and illustrious history. 03/20/2024 - 6:57 pm | View Link
Killer Kyle Rittenhouse is doing a tour of campuses around the country, sponsored by the Turning Point USA with Charlie Kirk.. Last week, when stopping at the University of Memphis, they were ready for him. A group of people were able to play the reserved seating to a tee and so there were several Black students present for his little speech.
Former Justice department official Jeffrey Clark doesn't seem to understand who he was supposed to be working for when he was still at the DOJ. As Raw Story reported, Clark repeatedly cited attorney-client privilege when refusing to answer questions at a disciplinary hearing before the D. C. Bar.
"Mr. Clark, you asserted a number of times attorney-client privilege," Matthews said.
Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump wants potential RNC donors to "trust" her because she's Donald Trump's daughter-in-law. I shit you not. NBC News senior Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake just came out and asked Lara what she would say to "Republicans who are not comfortable with the idea of sort of the Trump family takeover of the Republican Party."
The RNC slimmed down its staff, firing 60 employees because they were broke.
(ORLANDO, Fla.) — For the first time in 27 years, the U. S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern and North African heritage.
The revisions to the minimum categories on race and ethnicity, announced Thursday by the Office of Management and Budget, are the latest effort to label and define the people of the United States.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire who was found guilty of defrauding customers and investors of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday by a federal judge, who ruled that Bankman-Fried committed perjury and attempted witness tampering. The sentencing closes the door on an astonishing rise-and-fall saga in which Bankman-Fried, 32, was lauded as one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs before losing more than $8 billion worth of FTX customer deposits.
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Bankman-Fried’s sentence is less what federal prosecutors had hoped for: they recommended that he should receive 40-50 years due to the “extraordinary dimensions of his crimes” and the risk that he might carry out a future fraudulent scheme.
Giancarlo Esposito’s defining quality as an actor is a preternatural stillness that suggests sophistication, intelligence, and unshakeable self-possession. It’s what made his most iconic character, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul’s fastidious drug-lord villain Gustavo Fring, so quietly fearsome. Gus has, in turn, set the template for many of Esposito’s subsequent roles.