Parliament to ask for financial statements for the funds disbursed per the food security lawParliament to ask for financial statements for the funds disbursed per the food security law

Shafaq News/ The parliamentary finance committee will ask the ministries for financial statements to curb public fund wasting and looting attempts, Committee Member Sajjad Salem, told Shafaq News Agency on Saturday.

"The funds allocated by the emergency law on food security and development are sought to finance the actual needs of the Iraqi people

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COVID-19: zero deaths and 212 new cases in Iraq todayCOVID-19: zero deaths and 212 new cases in Iraq today

Shafaq News/ Iraq logged 137 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Saturday.

The daily epidemiological report stated that zero COVID-19 deaths was registered today. On the other hand, 85 patients had achieved full recovery.

The cumulative count of COVID-19 patients since the emergence of the virus in Iraq amounted

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Lawmaker pillories the government's failure to redress Speicher victimsLawmaker pillories the government's failure to redress Speicher victims

Shafaq News/ A member of Al-Fatah's parliamentary bloc called for announcing the Speicher massacre a national day, lambasting the government's neglection of the compensations file.

Lawmaker Mohammad Karim al-Beldawi told Shafaq News Agency, "eight years after the tragic massacre of Speicher at the hands of terrorism and Baath remnants, the

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Bereaved families flock to Tikrit to commemorate the anniversary of the Speicher Massacre Bereaved families flock to Tikrit to commemorate the anniversary of the Speicher Massacre 

Shafaq News/ Hundreds of families from all over Iraq flocked to Tikrit on Saturday to commemorate the anniversary of the Speicher Massacre in which more than 1,700 Iraqi troops were killed by the ISIS terrorist group in 2017.

Tikrit's commissioner, Omar al-Shindah, told Shafaq News Agency that a large-scale security plan has been devised in

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Iran and Iraq to for a joint cultural committeeIran and Iraq to for a joint cultural committee

Shafaq News/ Baghdad and Tehran have agreed to establish a committee to bolster the cultural exchange in a meeting between Iraq's Minister of Culture, Hasan Nadhem, and the head of Iran's Islamic Organization of Culture and Islamic, Mohammad Mahdi Imani Por, in Tehran earlier today, Saturday.

According to an official readout of the meeting,

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On the anniversary of Mosul's fall, IHCHR calls for justice before international courtsOn the anniversary of Mosul's fall, IHCHR calls for justice before international courts

Shafaq News/ Iraq's Higher Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) commemorated the eighth anniversary of the fall of Mosul into the hands of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) group, urging the international community, humanitarian organizations, and the relevant parties in the Iraqi government to help the city rebuild and recover. 

"The anniversary

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