Baghdad - The Iraqi parliament's Sunni speaker on Tuesday said he would resign under certain conditions, minutes before he convened a closed-door emergency session with MPs to decide his fate, media reports said.
Mahmoud al-Mashhadani told lawmakers before the session that in return for his resignation he wanted to be named head of a human rights association, Al-Arabiya news channel reported.
He also asked that his successor be chosen from the Sunni Iraqi Accordance Bloc (Tawafuk), Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency reported.
Brussels - The European Union's executive on Tuesday pledged food aid totalling 12.4 million euros (17.3 million dollars) to vulnerable Iraqis and Palestinians hard hit by rising food prices.
The pledge, which comes in response to an appeal from the United Nations, is intended to support up to 1.9 million poor and needy people in the two countries, a statement from the European Commission said.
Baghdad (Iraq), Dec 23 : Indian spiritual guru Sri Ravi Shankar is on a visit to Iraq to bring closer the Shia and Sunni communities who have been fighting against each other.
Ravi Shankar, who runs Art of Living Foundation, has been teaching yoga and meditation to the war-weary Iraqis and his foundation is working for rehabilitation of the war victims in Iraq since 2003.
Ravi Shankar met many Iraqi tribal and other political leaders in Baghdad in an effort to facilitate mending fences between the two communities.
He said the process was underway and his foundation was working towards establishing harmony among the warring factions.
Baghdad (Iraq), Dec 23 : Iraqi Minister of Justice and Education Safa Al deen Al Safi has denied the reports that Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi who threw shoes George Bush during a press confe
New York - The UN Security Council on Monday extended for another year arrangements whereby revenues from Iraq's petroleum and other sources are deposited in a UN-monitored fund for the reconstruction of Iraq.
The Development Fund for Iraq was set up by the council in 2003 after the former government of President Saddam Hussein was toppled by a US-led military invasion in March of that year.
The fund is intended to use Iraq's natural resources for the benefit of its people.
Baghdad - A member of the Iraqi parliament has announced plans for a prison visit to the journalist who threw his shoes at the US president to assess the incarcerated man's living conditions.
Seinab al-Kanani and a brother of journalist Montazer al-Zaidi have petitioned a court for the right to visit al-Zaidi in prison, al-Kanani told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Sunday.
Al-Zaidi has been in prison since throwing his shoes at US President George W Bush during a December 14 press conference to protest Bush's policies in Iraq.
Relatives and supporters of al-Zaidi entered a third day of silent protests near Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, where both the Iraqi government and the US embassy are situated.
Baghdad - The Iraqi parliament's Sunni speaker on Tuesday said he would resign under certain conditions, minutes before he convened a closed-door emergency session with MPs to decide his fate, media reports said.
Brussels - The European Union's executive on Tuesday pledged food aid totalling 12.4 million euros (17.3 million dollars) to vulnerable Iraqis and Palestinians hard hit by rising food prices.
New York - The UN Security Council on Monday extended for another year arrangements whereby revenues from Iraq's petroleum and other sources are deposited in a UN-monitored fund for the reconstruction of Iraq.
