Baghdad The final results of the provincial council elections held in Iraq in late January will be announced on Thursday afternoon, Iraq's electoral commission announced on Tuesday.
"The results will be out at 5 pm (14:00 GMT) Thursday," Karim al-Tamimi, a spokesman for the Independent High Electoral Commission, told reporters at a Baghdad press conference on Tuesday.
Preliminary results announced earlier in February showed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Dawlat al-Qanun (State of Law) coalition ahead in Iraq's nine southern provinces.
Berlin - Germany plans to open Tuesday an information office for German businesses operating in Iraq, with centres in Baghdad and the northern city of Erbil.
The one-stop-shop will offer information, advice and help establish contacts, in order to encourage business relationships between the two countries.
Economics Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said the information office would "help revive the previously intensive economic relationships between Germany and Iraq."
Baghdad - A blast in southern Iraq killed a US soldier, a statement by the US forces in Iraq said on Monday, while a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad, killed two and injured 10, police sources said.
The soldier, who died on Sunday, brings the total number of soldiers who died since the US-led invasion in Iraq to 4,245.
The Baghdad bombing took place in al-Sadr city in the eastern part of Baghdad.
Geneva - Nearly 60 per cent of all full-time employees in Iraq work for the government, a UN report said, warning that this level of public sector employment was "unsustainable."
Growing unemployment in Iraq officially stood at about 18 percent, but was 10 per cent higher among men under the age of 30. Additionally, less than 1 in 5 women participated in the labour force.
"Iraq's growing jobless population is a socio-economic challenge for a country in transition," the UN report said. "This unemployed or disenchanted pool of young men and women is critical to Iraq's future socio-economic health."
Baghdad The final results of the provincial council elections held in Iraq in late January will be announced on Thursday afternoon, Iraq's electoral commission announced on Tuesday.
Baghdad - Iraqi MP Osama al-Najifi described German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier's visit to Iraq as "historic and significant"
Berlin - Germany plans to open Tuesday an information office for German businesses operating in Iraq, with centres in Baghdad and the northern city of Erbil.
Baghdad - A blast in southern Iraq killed a US soldier, a statement by the US forces in Iraq said on Monday, while a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad, killed two and injured 10, police sources said.
