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Iraq's Kurds halt oil exports in payment row


Sunday, 1 April, 2012 , 15:46 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has halted its exports of oil, it said on Sunday, claiming that the central government has withheld payment to oil companies working in the region for 10 months.

Iraq's Kurds halt oil exports in payment row: statement


Sunday, 1 April, 2012 , 15:28 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has halted its exports of oil, it said on Sunday, claiming that the central government has withheld payment to companies working in the region for 10 months.

Iraq's Kurds stop oil exports in payment dispute: statement


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Iraq deputy PM warns Kurds on oil export threat


Sunday, 1 April, 2012 , 15:18 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region should think twice before threatening to cut off oil exports and must get "their act together," Baghdad's deputy prime minister for energy affairs warned on Sunday.

Any Total deal with KRG illegal: Iraq deputy PM


Sunday, 1 April, 2012 , 13:53 AFP — Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for energy affairs Hussein al-Shahristani warned Total on Sunday that any deal the French energy giant signs with Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region would be illegal.

Iraqi Kurd leader seeks Bulgarian investments


Thursday, 29 March, 2012 , 10:28 AFP — The leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan was in Bulgaria on Thursday seeking investment in the region's farming, health and construction sectors, the government's press office here said.

Five Kurds arrested in Italy for PKK racket


Tuesday, 27 March, 2012 , 15:28 AFP — Italian police on Tuesday arrested five Kurdish men suspected of forcing fellow Kurds to pay a "revolutionary tax" to finance the Kurdish Worker's Party, which is banned as a terrorist group in Europe.

Iraq 'not afraid' of Kurdish oil threat: minister


Tuesday, 27 March, 2012 , 13:38 AFP — Iraq's finance minister on Tuesday dismissed a threat by the country's autonomous Kurdish region to cut off oil exports if the central government continued to withhold promised funds.

Kurds say will end oil exports if Iraq keeps funds


Monday, 26 March, 2012 , 19:20 AFP — Iraq's Kurdistan region threatened on Monday to stop oil exports, and argued the central government did not have the right to sign a deal with British firm BP to develop a giant oilfield in disputed land.

Mullah Krekar gets five years prison for Norway death threat


Monday, 26 March, 2012 , 15:14 AFP — A Norwegian court on Monday sentenced Mullah Krekar, the founder of a radical Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group, to five years in jail for issuing death threats against a former government minister and others.