News Iraq Dohuk: Iraq balks at greater Chinese control of its oilfields
Iraq's oil ministry thwarted three prospective deals last year that would have handed Chinese firms more control over its oilfields and led to an exodus of international oil majors that Baghdad wants to invest in its creaking economy. Since the start of 2021, plans by Russia's Lukoil and U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil to sell stakes in major fields to Chinese state-backed firms have hit the buffers after interventions from Iraq's oil ministry, according to Iraqi oil officials and industry executives. Selling a stake to a state-run Chinese company was also one of several options being considered by Britain's BP, but officials persuaded it to stay in Iraq for now, people familiar with the matter said.
News Iraq Dohuk: Rare leopard captured in northern Iraq
The Persian leopard, taken in a day earlier in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region near the border with Turkey, had injured two people, said Colonel Jamal Saado, head of the environmental protection ...
News Iraq Dohuk: Iraq reports first cases of Omicron variant
Iraq has identified more than five cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant, the health ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
