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Ex-envoy to reap millions in oil deal

Friday November 13 2009

PETER Galbraith, a prominent former US ambassador, yesterday defended his decision to strike a potentially lucrative oil deal in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Straying US hikers are held by Iran

Sunday August 02 2009

Iran arrested three American tourists after what one Kurdish official described as an unwitting crossing into Iran from Iraq while hiking in mountains and Washington said it was taking the case very seriously.

Farrell leads the Irish charge in major movie festival invasion

Thursday July 30 2009

FOR Colin Farrell fans it's like waiting for a bus -- you wait for a new film and two come along at once.

Exploration firm yet to decide on Argentine oil baron's bid

Wednesday July 08 2009

AIM-listed Sterling Energy, the UK exploration firm in which telecoms billionaire Denis O'Brien has a 15pc stake, is understood to be still mulling over a recent takeover approach made by an Argentine oil baron.

Plague of snakes unleashed as Iraq runs dry

Monday June 15 2009

Swarms of snakes are attacking people and cattle in southern Iraq as the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dry up and the reptiles lose their natural habitat among the reed beds.

Wars come and go, but enemy remains the same

Saturday April 18 2009

Is the Ministry of Fear about to be reopened? I thought -- when Tony Blair finally departed from us and George Bush left the White House -- that the institution had been closed down, that we might have been allowed a few hours in the broad sunlit uplands. Change? Hope? Renewal? Inspiration?

Oil giants return to Iraq

Friday June 20 2008

Nearly four decades after the four biggest Western oil companies were expelled from Iraq by Saddam Hussein, they are negotiating their return. By the end of the month, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Exxon Mobil and Total will sign agreements with the Baghdad government, Iraq's first with big Western oil firms since the US-led invasion in 2003.

Slimline Colin in a wheelchair for latest role

Wednesday May 21 2008

HOLLYWOOD hunk Colin Farrell is wheelchair-bound in his latest role as an Irish photojournalist.

'It is difficult to describe how terrible it is - how badly we have been pushed back to the middle ages. Women are being denied their most basic rights'

In the name of religion: Iraq's female genocide

Monday April 28 2008

At first glance Shawbo Ali Rauf appears to be slumbering on the grass, her pale brown curls framing her face, her summer skirt spread about her. But the awkward position of her limbs and the splattered blood reveal the true horror of the scene.

Looking a bit rough there, Colin

Tuesday April 22 2008

HE’S unshaven, sweaty and dirty, and he’s coming soon to a location near you.

Iraqi Mehdi Army fighters take cover during clashes in the southern city of Basra. Photo by ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images

Violence erupts in Basra as Iraqi forces battle Mehdi Army

Wednesday March 26 2008

The Iraqi army is fighting the Mehdi Army Shia militia in the streets of Basra after the government launched its most serious offensive to gain control of the southern oil city.

Passion? I'm a rabble without a cause

Sunday March 16 2008

LIKE most people my age, I've always been really apathetic about politics and causes.